A New Year

This is the beginning of my first calendar year as a married woman, and my first calendar year of being in graduate school (should be my only calendar year in graduate school too!). So far it has been off to a lazy start with lots of hanging out with friends, going to the gym and catching up on webcomics, etc.

Right now I am officially starting to get ready for the upcomming semester. First, I am updating my google calendar with all of my classes and meetings, then I need to figure out which books I need to buy and when. Cash flow might be an issue this month (thank you to the gas company's clerical error and my boss for forgetting to get my time sheet in for me while I was out of the office for the holidays), so books will be more of a pain in the butt than usual. Last semester I spent 600 dollars on books, all but one of those books was a complete waste of money, so hopefully I can sell them off and get something back for them.

At the moment I am trying to decide if Opera, as a browser, is worth it and trying to figure out why Google is a jerk. You would think that a company devoted to open source would not go out of its way to make Opera useless on its site, but I guess that even a company that claims to not be evil can be a money grubbing jerk too. Oh well. I like google, I am often so impressed by google, and I sometimes forget that corporations are still corporations. Sad but true.