Yes. I admit it. Vanity is something I struggle with. I have been resisting taking my laptop with me to class to take notes because of the Total Geek factor. In my mind, somehow, someone at my age should not succumb to the need for laptop notetaking when doing it the old fashioned way has worked for me for so many years. I like computers and technology but I try to maintain a veneer of coolness with respect to the latest and greatest technology. It’s a thin veneer. When my husband reads this he will no doubt remind me of the times when I have been caught standing in front of a particularly cool piece of computing technology  and drooling whilst saying “This is so TOTALLY cool!” I will also confess to more than a momentary twinge of envy when Curt Jester twittered that he had installed a terabyte-sized hard drive. Sigh. Terabytes. Yeah, it’s a pretty thin veneer. So last night, since I type so much faster than I can write, I bit the vanity bullet and took my laptop to class for the first time.

Oh my merciful heaven!! I turned on my computer and it instantly started talking to the wireless network that I should have guessed was there but was actually clueless to its existence. I sort of figured that there was a wireless network around but that you needed to have some kind of access code or something to access it. Nope. Or if you do need some sort of code, my computer was just so hungry for internet access that it ate through the security system by sheer force of will.

Did you know you can buy books while IN class with these sorts of tools? If your professor mentions a certain out-of-print book that she would have preferred to use for the main text, you can just pop open a window, surf on over to Abebooks.com and voila! that book is on its way to your house.

I’ve got Themes of the Old Testament and Church History this semester in addition to pastoral and spiritual formation courses. I’m not sure how that will influence my blog content or if I will just keep telling you about how university life has changed since last I was there.

Buying books while IN class….can it get any better than that?