Blogging in a new way from a new laptop!

Whoa I am blogging from Microsoft Word!

I'm at Mimi's place. We just went through our plans for our STC workshop and made our super super fun powerpoint.

There are so many new features on this computer that are totally blowing my mind! I haven't had enough time to explore everything yet, but at least it will feel new and exciting for a longer period of time. =) I've been using OneNote with my laptop in tablet mode in class and it's pretty badass! At first I thought it was kind of unnecessary to take notes in tablet mode, but it's actually really neat! And this way I can have all my notes for my classes in one place on the computer instead of scattered all over the place in different notebooks. And I was also thinking that it's pretty cool that I won't have to waste so much paper… but does the amount of paper I save outweigh the carbon emissions I'm causing from using my laptop? This baby has an Energy Star sticker on it… so I sure hope so!

I'm so glad it's Friday, but I can't really feel relieved until after our workshop tomorrow morning. Even when I've planned things out and written down what I'm going to say, I always feel really anxious about making presentations. Even during general meetings! Making announcements in a room full of tens of people every single week probably should have helped me get over it… but I still felt nervous even towards the end of the term after already having made tons of announcements!

I've sat through some really great speeches before and gotten pretty emotional. Really good speakers know how to move you. And it might just be something that makes you feel good for the moment that you're listening, or it could be something that makes you jump to your feet and create a humongous change. I'd really like to make an excellent speech like that someday.

But even if it's not through making speeches, I'd just really like to be an inspiration. If I can't leave any awesome THINGS (like a Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too), I'd really like to just have moved people to do awesome things.

Well, the bus is coming in 11 minutes. Think I can make it to Bancroft and Telegraph in time from Mimi's house?

We'll find out next time... on BINGBANGBOOM!