Shock & Stress

I think I'm still in shock from the huge change in my life.  I pretty much turned it inside out.  Went from working to school.  From Seattle to Boston.  From being rich to being on a budget.  From Microsoft to teaching.  From LDR to SDR.  From Seattle friends to college friends.  From living alone to living with a roommate.  From reading for pleasure to reading textbooks.  From using a laptop to using a paper notebook. 

 

All this change has put my brain into overdrive.  I dream and dream and dream at night.  The strangest things.  I can't stop in the morning.  It's hard to wake up because I can still feel my brain processing all the input from the previous day.  There's lots of input.  So far I've had to do a lot of reading/listening but not much more.  This week the papers start.  Perhaps that will be a good outlet for me.  Maybe it'll release some pressure on my brain.  Can it even hold any more?  I know SO MUCH about teaching right now that I didn't even realize I needed to know.  And I've reinforced a lot of old knowledge from my education courses at Princeton.  It's nuts, I tell you.

 

I ordered an IBM Thinkpad X40.  I'm superexcited about it, but I won't be able to live up to Microsoft's big dream for education.  It would be pretty much impossible to use a laptop or tablet in class to take notes.  The teachers can barely use technology.  I haven't seen a single person with a laptop in all of my classes.  A lot of the activities are hands on and involve you talking to the person next to you or across from you, so the laptop could even be in the way.  Maybe I'll write more about it later, but it's kind of a shame.  I certainly would appear like the obnoxious Microsoft girl if I started taking notes on a laptop in class.  I remember when the Tablet PC people at MS first got their tablets and they seemed totally obnoxious taking notes on their tablet.  It would be like that times a million. 

 

Where have all the laptops gone?