Recap: What Came

First of all, my laptop came in the mail yesterday. Actually, no it didn't, it came by the delivery of a brown-clad UPS man, but it came by delivery so you get the idea. It is silver, Inspiron 600m from Dell, and looks exactly like the one Kate has. Kate, we can be computer buddies, and the only thing I can think of that is geekier than this is when a guy claimed to be my 'calculator buddy' during eighth grade because we had the same scientific calculator from Casio.
Off on a tangent: Christine's laptop is black and named Aziraphale, Kate's laptop is silver and named Crowly. It makes me think of the various scenes in the book...such as the one where Aziraphale ordered deviled egg or whatever it was and Crowly ordered angel cake.
Returning to original subject: I'll be on my laptop all day today, making modifications, adding and deleting a few programs (they have the most useless default things, I swear), and seeing of the computer has any pre-usage problems. Not necessarily in that order.

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Aaaand I failed my first road test today. I saw the pedestrian out of the corner of my eye but, alas, my reflex is not fast enough for me to step on the break before the instructor said "stop!" so--no license for Susan. Amusingly and ironically enough, both of my parents were instructing me on patience and driving CARE-FUL-LY, and slowing down on the turns, and mother lectured me because she thinks I didn't spend long enough looking both ways at the intersections...and the most points I got marked down today was for turning too slow and taking too long at the intersections.
But, c'est la vie, there is really no way you can win against parental instincts, logic or otherwise.
Scheduled another test for the 21st, will not be breaking to a full halt at every intersection, hope there are less pedestrians, wish me luck?

Received some recruiting opportunities for jobs at Davis, will be looking into it because, let's face it, most of my afternoons and all of my nights are free, and if I want to travel around the world MY parents are not going to be financially supporting me.
I wonder how I'd be working in the dining commons....

Will be visiting 'Tino again tomorrow, probably for the last time before I leave. And nothing has changed about that place in appearance except maybe the location and number of gum on the ground.....