Last night my laptop’s power adapter stopped working. Or at least, it stopped working well: if I hold it at the right angle and really keep it jammed in there physically it works fine, but this isn’t exactly ideal. Since the laptop in question has a battery life not long enough to illuminate any significant fraction of a mayfly’s existence, I believe the time has come for replacement.
I placed the order earlier today for all kinds of computer goodness. If I’m really lucky, I’ll get at least some of it before I drive down to confer in TN at the end of the week.
In other news, I’ve already got a rough idea of my schedule for next semester. (And it’s only September! I tell ya, tenure-track’s the way to go.) It’s pretty great, in that it satisfies the basic requirements of my current habitual existence:
- No classes before 11 a.m. (In fact, no classes until noon.)
- No classes on Friday, since that’s all too often a driving day for me.
And the classes themselves have all kinds of fun stuff in them, including the opportunity to bring terror into the hearts of our graduate students. W00t!