*hugs Ginny tight*
She is pretty and shiny and we had to pay $106 for her, but she’s HERE and she’s MINE and I am NEVER LETTING HER GO AGAIN.
And she doesn’t squeak like crazy when I open the lid!!!
I had a Best Buy gift card from Nicole for my birthday, so I brought it with me and spent it so I never have to darken the door of that store again. I bought Ginny a coming-home present: a mini wireless optical mouse and 10-key pad. Now I can use Ginny as my primary machine and put off rebuilding Harry for a bit. That will probably happen next semester, though. After I pay my tuition and figure out how much money I’ve got.
Grad school is– well– hard. I nearly had a nervous breakdown in the office of the literature librarian yesterday because one of my classes was cancelled (without giving us any notice, mind) and I couldn’t find anything else that would work with my schedule. I finally decided to try to add the undergrad equivalent of the class that was cancelled. It’ll mean having to find 4 hours in which to work elsewhere in the week, and doing extra work on top of the grad work (if I can convince the teacher to add me), but it’s the best solution I can think of. The professor taught the Jane Austen class I took my final semester of my undergrad, so he knows me. Here’s hoping he’ll add me. Or I could take bowling. *thinks* Naw.
I did get some nice news, though. According the graduate handbook, I can expect about a $1000 tuition credit for the first four semesters of my graduate program. It’s an incentive to finish on time, I guess, which I don’t really need, but which I certainly won’t decline. 
I’ll be paying less than undergraduate tuition! Score!
Well, as much as I love Ginny (and I do!!!), I must do homework. I’ve got a couple of things to read for critical theory, and I’m going to read all the assignments for the classes I’ve already missed plus the assignment for tomorrow for this class I want to add (the syllabus is posted online). That will impress Dr. Mason, eh?
*hugs Ginny again*