Done With Orientation

[debka_notion]

Well, I'm now done with orientation, and in minor limbo before beginning classes. The end of orientation was pretty reasonable, there were some actual interesting parts, and a good helping of requisite nonsense. (We're graduate students, one would think that we'd know a. what harassment is, and b. what an archive is.)

gimmelgirl was incredibly wonderful and did in fact loan me a computer- but for the moment I can't seem to persuade it to access the internet, so I'm still computer-labbing it for now. Marvin has been deemed (after a brief spurt of overdone optimism by the repair people) not to be worth repairing. So a new computer will be acquired soon (it'll need a name. Not sure what to go with). Dad's doing a little more research, and then hopefully either hte parents will buy it, or we'll order it online ASAP. So- hopefully I'll be set up on my own in a week or so, give or take.

Today's goals are to clean up and finish setting up the stuff I have in my room currently, to produce a dessert for Shabbos lunch, and maybe even to finish my orientation evaluation. Goal #2 will involve procuring baking powder, either butter or muffin cups (or getting creative with oil), and perhaps vanilla extract, or a conversion for what I need to add to baking soda to make it work in my recipe. Either all that, or plain oatmeal. It's weird not having a set-up kitchen with all the requisite supplies. Very weird.

Comments

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Of course, thanks to the lack of computer, I am only reading this once my assorted relatives have picked out, ordered and paid for a Toshiba- which may well suit my needs dandily for quite a while. I am Very Much behind the extended warranty. That said, I had the previous computer for 4 1/2 years without running out of storage space on the hard drive, so not sure the need for an external hard drive- unless there's some other use for those?

[jessebeller.livejournal.com]

no, externals are pretty much used for storing things. this can come in handy if you have lots of media files (images, mp3s, movies, etc), but if all you ever have is text docs, youll probably be set.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

I have a good chunk of music, but apparently not enough to tax my computer- or if it was, I never knew that it was. Presumably it tells you when it runs out of room?