bookofmirrors | SQUEEEEEE

I am now doing something that I've always wanted to do. And yes, I know it's stereotypical, corny, passe', or whatever-else-have you.

But I don't care. I've wanted to do this for YEARS.

I'm. Blogging. In. A. Coffee. Shop.

....on my shiny new laptop!!!

Did I say squeeeeeee???

*pantpantpant*

OK. For the record, this laptop was purchased for educational purposes. That is, since I work midnights, and I have a good amount of downtime, at least for one of my clients, it had always been my intention to do my classwork while at work-work. And currently, I'm enrolled in 2 online classes, and have almost no time to do anything with them outside of work. In fact, having just gotten the laptop today, I'm almost 2 weeks behind on classwork.

Which should be remedied tonight when I go to work with said new shiny.

So, you can see, it really was a necessary thing if I wanted to maintain something along the lines of a life and a sleep schedule. And yes, I had help buying it, or I never could have afforded it. Especially since the one CRITICAL component for me was that I had to be able to access the internet on a 3G network, since most people don't have open WiFi in their homes (or any WiFi at all, in the case of the client in question)... and that one component required 2 upgrades that I otherwise had no interest in, but they were necessary to make the computer work in the way it needed to.

One of the unintentional upgrades was a webcam, which I think I can see as I type this, but I'm not exploring much right now. I'm sipping coffee and blogging, and I care not for cameras, muhaha!

I have about half an hour before I have to leave... I'm going to go and get a firsthand tour of the new factory for Flatlander Chocolate from the owner. I'm a fan on Facebook, and we've done the usual comment back-and-forth thing, and he sells his chocolate at the Farmers' Market, so I've run into him a few times, and I find him interesting, so I finally told him that I'd decided we needed to go out for coffee. He agreed, but one-upped me and asked if I wanted to scope out his new place (he's been making the chocolate out of his house until less than a month ago), so of course I jumped at the chance. I was supposed to go yesterday, but I got one of those headaches from hell... But anyway, we were both free today, so that's going to be my cool thing for the day.

Y'know, besides the laptop. :)

By the way, in a recent bookstore date, I ran across a Laurell K. Hamilton book I hadn't read yet, called Flirt, and I was inspired to name my laptop the same thing - it's pink, and it gets around. :) (Yes, I could have gone so many other places with that description, but Flirt suits my mood quite nicely. Anyone who knows me knows I wouldn't take the "tame" route to protect anyone's tender sensibilities!)

OK, so I have some time here, and I think the battery works for 6 hours, and I have free WiFi here (so I don't have to use the minutes on the 3G, which is good), so I suppose I should at least give a bit of an update on what's been going on with me.

OK... so, like I said, I'm taking classes. As it turns out, I have to re-take 4 classes I've already taken, which sucks. They have to be more current than the versions I took 10 or so years ago. So, I need to re-take Chemistry, Microbiology, and Anatomy and Physiology I and II. I also have to take Human Growth and Development... which, even though it's a psychology class, I missed along the way to my bachelors. Strangely, it wasn't required. Long story why I ended up dropping it. Anyway, so I have to take all those as prerequisites to the RN program. I'm currently enrolled in Chemistry and Human Growth and Development, both of which are online courses. I'm already enrolled in Microbiology and A&P I for the fall, and I'll either have to take A&PII concurrently with the first semester of the nursing program, or I'll take it in the spring and start the nursing program in the fall.

So, a few things have changed since I last talked about the nursing program. And I was about to clarify... but I just looked at the time, and it's not going to be possible right now. More details later.

One of these days I'm going to come here on my day off and just spend hours blogging. :)

But, until then......

Adios!