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debka_notion ([personal profile] debka_notion) wrote2006-09-01 12:45 pm

Done With Orientation

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.)

[livejournal.com profile] 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.

[identity profile] debka-notion.livejournal.com 2006-09-05 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Marvin-the-computer's screen failed in some way, and as the CD drive had been wonky for quite a while, and it was oddly slow of late, it was deemed that it owuldn't be worth it to fix the poor thing. So now my unnamed Baby Computer is currently in transit to me.

Lappy is a very cute name for a laptop, it just Sounds cute and pet-able.

[identity profile] jessebeller.livejournal.com 2006-09-05 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
the proper adjectival form of wonk is wonkish, and it denotes a fascination with and expertise in policy details, rather than unpreliability or quirkiness.

[identity profile] debka-notion.livejournal.com 2006-09-05 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Eep- and here I thought I was grabbing a silly syllable that wasn't, as far as I knew, actually a word. What has happened to my vocabulary?