Up until this point my laptop has pretty safely been an "in house" operation. I keep it in the privacy of my bedroom and feel free to set my desktop and screen savers to my own personal preference. Yesterday this all changed. Yesterday was my first day of school, my first, first day in a while, I'm a bit rusty and I'm afraid I am more glaringly uncool than I have ever been. Take my a fore mentioned laptop. I got to my first class and diligently opened the laptop along with everyone in the class only to become horribly self conscious about my desktop selection as everyone around me can see what I have selected and are then free to make judgment as to what this must say about me. Prior to this moment I thought my Planet Earth Polar Bears were kind of cool in a "I-watch-the-discovery-channel" kind of way, plus polar bears are cute. But I suddenly became painfully aware that I'm the older woman with the weird polar bear obsession, who may or may not have a "hang in there" poster on her wall of the cat hanging from the branch in her bedroom. I felt only slightly redeemed by my rolling slide show screen saver of all my friends and loved ones in various compromising snapshots usually accompanied by some sort of alcoholic libation, pop up and run across the screen when I wasn't paying attention. Oie Vey...I have a lot to learn.
3 comments:
hang in there. wow. brilliant.
The only thing your classmates think is that you like bears and have friends that abuse alcohol. The latter goes hand in hand with being a lawyer. What ever you do, do not become a distric attorney. There is no money in it.
so you know how sometimes you read the post, then go to respond, but you never committ because you figure, 'if it's gonna be out there and subject to the scrutiny and judgement of not only the people that matter most to me but the rest of the free world to boot, then it better be some ill shit', but then when you finally found the perfect shit to say you log on and discover that two others have already commented while you procrastinated, one of whom was the ol' sassy flipper who just so happened to pull it all together and summarize or condense to the letter your three one-word failed attempts at immortality through epic responses to the neatest weblog in the hisory of forever? well it happened to me today. those posters were the shit, great job kid.
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