Thursday, July 13, 2006
Dude, you're gettin' a... Mac!
I went ahead and ordered my laptop. I had gone back and forth between buying a Dell and taking the leap over to Apple. Although I haven't really come up with a good, solid reason for it, I decided on the MacBook . The prices were very similar, everyone says they're "so intuitive" and their operating system is safer and better quality, and now it seems you don't have to worry too much about not being compatible with PCs because you can run BootCamp or Parallels which will allow you to run Windows if you need to. So in the end, I guess the reason I went with a Mac is because I also didn't have a good, solid reason not to. Oh and they threw in a free iPod nano with MacBook orders as well, so that didn't hurt. Anyway, those two things should be arriving late next week sometime...
In the meantime, we've had a little success getting rid of our excess belongings. Yesterday, a girl stopped over and bought our t.v. and dvd player for $100, and another guy bought my 15 year old golf clubs for $60. We also got rid of two beds over the weekend which cleared up a lot of space. The one big ticket item we really want to sell (our dining room table), however, is still here. If we don't get a fair price for it, we'll just put it in storage for awhile.... but if you know anyone that wants a beautiful 42" round dining room table and four matching chairs with a gorgeous mahogany finish, have them give me a call and we'll work something out.
Finally, to keep this more law school related, I received my first year (1L) course schedule last week. I'm really happy with the fall schedule as I'll begin classes at 9:30 or 10:30 every day and then, except on Tuesday, be done by 1:00 or so. That's only 2 classes per day and they're in one large block rather than one class, two hours to be (un)productive, and then another class. This way will work much better for how I tend to operate. Spring semester is a little more class/break/class/break but by then, I hope I'll know how to study efficiently. Also, at least two of my professors are (apparently) extremely well known in the legal world and I'm excited to have the opportunity to be around truely top-notch people. It'll be interesting to see if I feel the same way around, say, December 12 (Finals Week)....
In the meantime, we've had a little success getting rid of our excess belongings. Yesterday, a girl stopped over and bought our t.v. and dvd player for $100, and another guy bought my 15 year old golf clubs for $60. We also got rid of two beds over the weekend which cleared up a lot of space. The one big ticket item we really want to sell (our dining room table), however, is still here. If we don't get a fair price for it, we'll just put it in storage for awhile.... but if you know anyone that wants a beautiful 42" round dining room table and four matching chairs with a gorgeous mahogany finish, have them give me a call and we'll work something out.
Finally, to keep this more law school related, I received my first year (1L) course schedule last week. I'm really happy with the fall schedule as I'll begin classes at 9:30 or 10:30 every day and then, except on Tuesday, be done by 1:00 or so. That's only 2 classes per day and they're in one large block rather than one class, two hours to be (un)productive, and then another class. This way will work much better for how I tend to operate. Spring semester is a little more class/break/class/break but by then, I hope I'll know how to study efficiently. Also, at least two of my professors are (apparently) extremely well known in the legal world and I'm excited to have the opportunity to be around truely top-notch people. It'll be interesting to see if I feel the same way around, say, December 12 (Finals Week)....
