New!

Sitting on my bed in my new house in North Berkeley I am writing this post on my new computer, the one that I ordered four days ago and that was made just for me according to my specifications (okay in China yes but still...) and that came across the Terrific Pacific via Anchorage, Alaska and that I picked up at the UPS store today and that I started up tonight and that will allow me to blog with speed and watch movies and talk on Skype and all the things I have never been able to do on a computer before.

New new new...I am so excited! It will be hard not to stay up all night trying to discover every fun feature. Photo Booth? Garage Band? Oh wow. Who needs to sleep when there is YouTube to be investigated for the first time, ever?!

My new MacBook is a-MAZE-ing, as Kelli would say from all those hours watching Little Einstein. Now I just have to name it. Yes, I am that silly quasi-animist girl who personifies lifeless objects--some of them, anyway--have any of you met Pierre? Yes, exactly. My first Mac that I bought in 1995 when I graduated from college was named Abdul. Then in 1999 along came Elliot, just in time for my second round of graduate school. Now, eight years and one pirated laptop later, the latest addition to my Mac family has been long in coming and so I am going to have to think of a very good name to welcome him/her to the community. It might take awhile but I will report back once I figure something out.