impatient and stuck in my room

so i had a laptop for all of college.

ahhh....i remember when my parents bought it. it was a sweet laptop, with 4 whole gigabytes of hard drive space. and i loved it. but i never really went anywhere with it. i guess, to me, a laptop was a way of saving space on my desk and of easy moving out of my room at the end of the year. a few times i took it to the library or to matt's room during my senior year. but during my senior year, my computer was far past obselete. and it had horrible battery life. and i decided that when i got a new computer (which i did before coming to seminary), it would be a sweet desktop.

and so i have a sweet desktop that i love.

and yet...i am realizing more and more that i am restless enough to desire the mobility of a laptop. something about the ability to write papers wherever i want, to go to the library and type up my research notes rather than handwriting them, to do homework on my bed or outside, to take my computer with me as i commute between princeton and baltimore...i am the perfect laptop candidate.

the good news is that i will be getting one. matt's computer is on death's door, and so he will take my desktop, we will get a beautiful ibook (or powerbook...if there happens to be the perfect one up on ebay), and all will be well.

but as the title of this post would suggest...i am impatient. i have a paper to write tonight that i would LOVE to work on ANYWHERE that isn't my room. boo. the more i think about the eventual aquisition of a laptop, the more reasons i find to want it this second.

i'm horribly impatient.

[and then my guilty streak runs rampant...i live in such excess. i'm cleaning out my clothes as i start to pack up my room, and it makes me sick. i look at the cds i have, or the technology i take for granted...and so this whole "i want a laptop" discussion makes me feel all materialistic and ungrateful.]