Weekend Update

• While reading the NYTimes on Sunday morning, I was suddenly overcome with the desire to attend a dance class. Not ballet, although I have more ballet training than anything else. I want jazz, salsa, modern, African--anything that's energetic and joyous. The yoga studio down the street, to which my mother gave me a 10-class card for my birthday, offers some good options, so as soon as my period tapers off, I'm heading down there.
• I've been listening to country music at work courtesy of Pandora. It makes me very happy for reasons I can't quite explain. Music is more important to me than I sometimes give it credit for. Despite not listening to much of any music all weekend, I had a full playlist of country music in the jukebox in my head. This morning's inexplicable choice was "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy." Shrug.
• I attended OldJob's annual fundraising gala on Saturday. The kool-aid has definitely worn off. My date, who was once my employee, stood me up because she flat-out forgot about it. I got to catch up briefly with those colleagues I love and miss, but I also watched while Mr. Burns gave credit for the school's success to those employees who have nothing to do with the students instead of the ones who have raised test scores, raised standards, raised the college enrollment, and otherwise made it a good and productive place to learn. Priorities much? I also spent the rest of the weekend saying "we" and "our" about it, while Ms. P gently corrected me. It was a relief to arrive at NewJob this morning.
• I bought an EEE PC, which is just the cutest damn thing ever. It's a tiny little Linux box that's the size of a fat moleskine, and it runs OpenOffice and wireless internet, which means I can take it on our weekend jaunts to the coffee shop and not feel deprived that Ms. P gets the "real" computer because she's doing homework. Not only that, it only weighs two pounds, so it's weight in my bag is negligible. And it's green. I'm a total geek.
• And speaking of geekiness, I'm also stripping, reformatting, and reinstalling the "real" laptop, since it has gradually acquired problems. After the reformat and reinstall, however, the "standby" option is still greyed out in the shutdown procedure. Anyone more computer-savvy than I am have any suggestions for what I do next? I did once have a computer that got infected such that I had to overwrite the harddrive by hand using some old Norton utility that displayed the 1s and 0s, but I doubt it's still around.

Comments

[comebacknikki]

I highly recommend West African dancing. I took a class last year and it was fantastic! It's a serious workout though, so be prepared if you do take it!

[Pronoia]

I will! Part of why I'm interested is for the workout, and part of it is just wanting to move to music. I'll keep you posted. :-)