reemerging

i'm finally starting to feel like a human being again, but i'm still not quite there. hence...more bullet points!

• environmental moot court is finally out of my hair. the semifinals were tuesday night...and i was worried we may make finals, because my team did quite well. however...we didn't make the finals. i was so relieved to get that email a couple hours after the semifinal--because it meant that all systems are go for the trip to the Twin Cities this weekend!
• naiatlc and i have a supersweet king suite for this weekend. this will be awesome, if past history is any indication. we had a supersweet king suite to ourselves two years ago at gold in Des Moines, and we had more fun there than should have been allowed.
  
• i think i'm going to have to get a new computer sooner than i planned. i definitely wanted a new one before the bar exam, because i don't trust taking the bar on this three-year-old box. but, i was trying to take my fed jur take-home midterm, and it was impossible to type quickly. between my computer liking to lock up every so often and the fact that my space bar broke about a month ago [and i have to put it back in place every couple seconds, or minutes if i'm lucky]...i don't even think i can take a three-hour final on this thing. i have to make my choice soon, since April 18 is the deadline for downloading final exams, and i have to have whatever computer i'm taking it on by then, to download it. this is frustrating...i really don't want to plunk down the money or deal with transferring everything to a new computer, but this thing has been dying for months, ever since October when my wireless stopped working in some circumstances. time's ticking, and i have to decide what i'm going to do.