look at the shiny!

My main and most expensive Christmas present finally arrived on New Year's day. You might not be able to tell, but I'm using it right now. While watching telly. Without my dad telling me to get off it... yup, they were finally nagged into buying me a laptop. It is extremely shiny, sparkly blue and way, way faster than my desktop. The desktop PC in my bedroom takes about 10 minutes to start up completely, and the Internet moves at the pace of a slug that's just been stoned to death.
You ask it to do something, just a google search, or to update your facebook status, it looks at you, like a rabbit caught in the headlights, then goes 'oh... uh.. yeah? I think so? ... umm... where's the button... uhh, no, I don't think I can do this yet... come back when I've had some tea'. I kid you not, it has the intelligence of an ex-boxer, who wasn't very good at it, or an addict whose brain has been dissolved over the years - think Ozzy Osbourne or Pete Doherty. That stupid.
This new one, in stark contrast, is more like.. well, like my favourite celebrity 'older man' crush. Sleek, beautifully proportioned, strong, and very, very, clever (the subject of that crush? if you have spent any time with me you probably know who he is, and I'm not writing it here)
It's lovely, and I love it. For a while, yes, the Internet access was even worse. For some reason the crappy old router refused to acknowledge it's existence most of the time. Thankfully, as a result of nagging from everyone, dad has bought and set up a new one, which works and can see the laptop.

Tomorrow is the day of my interview for Staffordshire University and I'm appropriately terrified. Obviously the hope is that I will get a place and everything will be sorted, since the Falmouth option is nowhere near as enticing - less interesting and less well recognised course, smaller campus, further from anywhere interesting... oh, and I wouldn't be able to afford the accommodation - Methinks it's not for me. So yeah, wish me luck!