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i know.
i said i wouldn’t but i did.
i bought and paid for this ibook clamshell that looks really beautiful. *sigh* it’s coming from the U.S. and i don’t know how long it’s gonna take to get to me. i hope it gets to me intact. oh man. every instinct tells me i shouldn’t have done it. it’s a great risk.
there, but for a tangerine ibook clamshell, go I.
i hope it does my writing life a lot of good.
ibook clamshell.
i promise, this is the last time (for a while, at least) you’re gonna read of me salivating over the thing. that’s because, in the face of this seemingly beautiful find on ebay (relatively cheap, too), i’ve decided that if i’m gonna get a macbook (or a macbook pro, but i’d rather have a macbook) before the year ends, why should i waste money on something dated?
still…
you can’t blame a girl for looking.
in transit.
in one bored moment, i signed up to receive a reading from an online psychic. she sent me an email writing up some vague lines about my personality (sometimes really true) and what i may expect to happen to me in the days to come. she said that i’m to enter a part of my life where i’m to experience something earth-moving (my term). she said i’d be “in transit”. note that it’s vague, though. how to undo the vagueness? pay some $65 dollars so she’d tell me the details to this “transit”. obviously, i ignored her emails. i only signed up for it because it was free. i deliberately googled “FREE”. what part of “FREE” isn’t clear to Jenna, the psychic?
earlier, i received a seemingly last-ditch effort from her. apparently my “transit” has begun. i don’t doubt that every moment of my life, i’m entering some new phase, but that doesn’t mean i should pay some quack to tell me what will happen, what i should do, etc. if it were intended to be this way, we’d have only the present. the future is unknown because it is intended to be unknown. last i heard, stores have run out of crystal balls. i’m still wait listed.
i must say though: the heads-on vague assertions about me got me curious and i almost daydreamed i was paying her $65.
tomorrow, another transit begins. in 7 hours, i’ll know if i’m destined to be the owner of a G3 ibook. not a clamshell yet and i’m still thinking about whether i should still bid for a clamshell one that’s really, really low-end but pretty, and that’s ending in a little more than an hour. (i’m under the delusion that an apple laptop will make me the writer that i’m destined to be. wait a minute! I AM A WRITER ALREADY. i’ve published a poem and that’s more than other “writers” can say for themselves. ahem!)
see you in a bit for the update on the ibook!
ibooks(!)
jeez, i’ve been bidding left and right on (relatively cheap) ibooks (clamshells and snow G3 models) on ebay and up to now, i haven’t won one. one ibook tangerine clamshell had me on top 10 hours before the end of the auction. the end time was 10 am today and i was in the office where there wasn’t any internet connection. when i came home after work, i checked my ebay and guess what!?!? I’ve been OUTBID!!!
right now, i’m looking at more ibooks and checking out those that seem reasonably priced (no major defects, power adapter included, battery holds charge). i’ve bid on 2 white ones and i’m one top of one that’s going to end in some 7 hours. that’s 6 am my time so i plan on getting up before that so i can check my bids and bid more if needed and within what’s reasonable (everything’s relative up to a point).
so, see you and wish me luck!
