Received from Laura:

A - Available/Single? Single AND available
B - Best Friend? I have so many! I guess in real life it would be my roommates, Matt and Ben, my best girlfriends, Stephanie and Brittany, and online, Mouse!
C- Cake or Pie? Mmmm, what a question! Both, as long as they’re chocolate, LOL! Actually, probably pie.
D - Drink Of Choice? Coffee or hot chocolate!
E - Essential Item You Use Everyday? Does my computer count?
F - Favorite Color? Blue, hands down, no questions asked!
G - Gummy Bears Or Worms? Ooo, tough one! Probably bears . . . because you can make them dance
H - Hometown? Born and raised in Georgia, but currently live in Florida . . . as far as a hometown goes, I guess it would be Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, but I really feel like a Georgia girl at heart.
I - Indulgence? Starbucks . . . or something chocolate-y and sinful!
J - January Or February? January . . . you get to start with a new year!
K - Kids & Their Names? Matt and Ben. Oh wait, you meant real children, not my 23 year old roommates that act like children that I have to take care of ;-). None.
L - Life Is Incomplete Without? Christmas. Sorry, I LOVE Christmas
M - Marriage date? none
N- Number Of Siblings? 1 - my younger brother Bo, with whom I have an excellent relationship
O - Oranges Or Apples? apples!
P - Phobias/Fears? heights - don’t get me started
Q - Favorite Quote? Something my mother said to me that has stuck with me for a long time, and I think about it almost daily “If you ask someone to do a job for you or to help you, you have to accept the way that they do it. Don’t yell at them because they didn’t do it your perfect way - be glad that they helped at all!”
R - Reason to Smile – my family
S - Season? Summer! But the past couple of years I’ve been liking spring a lot too.
T - Tag 3 or 4 people? Tagging Brittany and Bug!
U - Unknown Fact About Me - The past few months I’ve grown to where I HAVE to make my bed in my apartment or I feel like I haven’t accomplished anything that day. However, this is not a trait that has come home with me. Hmm . . .
V - Vegetable you don’t like? If you know me in real life, you know that this is a funny question - I am a very picky eater. I’m gonna go with broccoli, but know that there are many more.
W - Worst Habit? I’ve been trying for 10 years to quit biting my fingernails . . . no success yet.
X - X-rays You’ve Had? Is a mammogram an x-ray? If not, then none. Well, my teeth, they do do that at the dentist office . . .
Y - Your Favorite Food? Give me chicken, cheese, and chocolate and I’m good for life!
Z - Zodiac Sign? I’m a Gemini, but I’m not really into horoscopes . . . like Laura, God’s got me covered.

Thirteen Shows That Stevo the TiVo Records!

1. Late Night with Conan O’Brien - Daily!

2. The Oprah Winfrey Show - Daily!

3. Law and Order (Original, SVU, Criminal Intent)

4. Gilmore Girls

5. Medium

6. ER

7. Desperate Housewives

8. Grey’s Anatomy

9. Lost

10. 24 (Not currently in season)

11. Scrubs (Not currently in season)

12. Entourage (Not currently in season)

13. New Shows I’m Trying: Studio 60 on Sunset Strip, Kidnapped, Heroes

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Did you miss the final episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, Lost, or Desperate Housewives? iTunes is giving away 1 Million of each episode, today only! Click here for details!!

Now I can see the second half of the Grey’s Anatomy finale before the new season starts! I missed it because TiVo was recording 24 . . . oops.

It occured to me that in all my panic about my old computer crashing, I never posted about my new computer!

As many of you know, I went to undergraduate school at Wake Forest University, and they are nationally known for their excellent technology program, particularly for the fact that upon entering the school, every student and faculty member receive an IBM ThinkPad. Upon entering their junior year, all the students trade in their ThinkPad for a newer model, and when they graduate, they get to take it with them.

I recently started graduate school at the Babcock School of Management at Wake Forest. The majority of the people in my program went to Wake Forest undergrad, and when we were told we would be receiving a new computer upon entering this program, we all assumed we were getting the newest ThinkPad.

Not so.

Day one of orientation, and the IT department rolls in with these babies.

It’s a Convertible Notebook, which basically means it’s a laptop, but if you swivel the screen around, it’s a tablet. It’s pretty cool. So far the tablet has been useful for taking notes in class, especially in classes like accounting where I have to draw graphs from time to time.

It’s also a fast little bugger - waaaaaaaay faster than the ThinkPad. That makes me happy, because I HATED how slow that computer was. From day one it was slow.

Downside - there’s a ton of stuff running in the background. It doesn’t run on regular Windows XP Professional or Home or anything . . . it has it’s own XP Tablet Edition, which means there are some additional software features that are running on the computer that area always running.

I haven’t fully decided if I like it or not. There are a lot of features that I do like (the graphics card is pretty decent, and I LOVE the widescreen monitor - that is something I will never go back from), but it is kind of funny to get used to it. Plus, I couldn’t get too excited about it at first because I was so bummed about the crash of the old computer.

So, that’s my newest toy. Does anyone else have a tablet (of any kind)? Any tips or horror stories?