Gah. Man I feel like crap. My legs hurt so much. If this is what it's like to acclimate back to work, I may never take a vacation again.

At least I have two days off now. Hopefully that will let them rest from the damage that's been incurred this week but be short enough not to atrophy them for me again.

Before the legs got sore I was in a good mood today. I got down to business RE: what computer I want, and finally narrowed it down, and it was a lot of fun. I'd already decided I wanted a Dell or an Apple (they tend to break the least according to consumer reports, and hell yeah I am tired of broken computers), and last night I decided on Dell, so I spent like 5 hours today customizing various Dell computers and narrowing down my choices. Seriously, computer shopping for me is like the girly girl's version of an enjoyable shopping trip and trying everything on in the store before deciding on something. I was in heaven.

Most heavenly: my parents are footing the bill for it, too, a kind of belated college graduation present. They set a spending limit of about 2,000, and then I decided that I totally wanted a kickass awesome as possible computer, and would pay the extra. So I was totally making customizations of the fanciest ones possible and drooling over them. It was basically nerd porn.

I stepped back for a minute, though, and realized I would probably never use some of the features. I reduced it to a more reasonable price (about 2,500), and what I decided on I like to think of as the cadillac of desktop computers. Less flashy than a ferrari, but awesome enough to get a few looks (one terrabyte hard drive, y'all! Dual core pentium processor!), and hopefully if I did my job right, I can use it for a really long time. And my parents said they'd pay the extra after all, so I win!

I was also looking at cell phone plans (the pay as you go is way expensive, I decided) with less excitement. I think I'm actually going to have to go into a cell store or something, because the websites were not that informative. I really don't want to pay that much. I was thinking of maybe a land line instead once I get my place, but now that I have a taste for cellular, I like it too much to go back!