I. AM. DOCTOR.

only took 20 years of schooling to get here.

True Blood.

(pretty puny fang action if you ask me.)

Okay, I'll be honest, I've been avoiding this series for years. I know, I know, it's one of the most well known vampire romances out there. The television series is considered the X-rated, adult version of Twilight. And when you put together X-rated and Twilight, it's gotta be good, right??

But I thought I had already read most of it. And honesty, three's a company in the romance department for me. private investigator, vampire AND werewolf?? Hey, I may like my troll teenage romances, but even I've got to draw a line somewhere.

But then my boyfriend got me the True Blood box set for my birthday. And, frankly, that's one of the most thoughtful, heartfelt gifts I've ever gotten. Even after mercilessly teasing me about my slight obsession with the paranormal, he still went out to Amazon and checked out what other people with my.. condition were into.

So I decided to give it another chance. I tried reading the first book again. And failed. Apparently, taking the mystery and suspense out of mystery suspense paranormal romance is no fun at all.

But then I said, hey, why not, let's just start with the second book. See if I actually remember any of it.

And 1 day later, I have finished that entire second book.

True Blood is AWESOME. I love it!! I can't believe it took me so long to get to this series. Turns out I never even read past the first book. There isn't even a private investigator. The boyfriend chose his series well.

Next, an actual review of Book 2 in Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse Series, Living Dead in Dallas.

i certainly try not to.

while clearing away dishes after helping cook a steak dinner for my mom for mother's day:

mom: you know, even though amy's mom (family friend) is really fashionable, she cooks really well.

me: hey i could cook well too!

mom: ..... but, i mean, you don't have a lot of time to cook...

must exploding garlic haunt me forever?!?

Happy Mother's Day, Mom!

and just fyi, the steak dinner was delicious.

while driving on the freeway today from cincinnati back to chicago, i saw a girl driving a car in the fast lane at 60 mph, with a cat walking on her dash.

a cat. walking on her dash.

o_o

after a year of hemming and hawing and researching and lusting, i've found the one.

I've had a small obsession with tablets since they first came out. I got my first tablet, a refurbished toshiba portege m400, for medical school. with a 12.1" standard display and weight of 4.5 lbs, it was actually one of the smaller and better tablets out there. unfortunately, it died a premature death after only a year.

I vowed to get a smaller, lighter tablet with a built in camera for my next computer. Instead, I got the non-tablet IBM thinkpad r61 with a 14.1" widescreen display, without a camera, and weighing in at a hefty 5.7 lbs. It was a behemoth of a laptop, but I enjoyed the huge display and the expansive keyboard. I did miss the tablet function. But honestly, the tablet was more for fun and games than work.

But then, third year came around, and after killing a small glen of trees with my endless printouts of pdf''s in order to present the best evidence based medicine for rounds every day, I started to miss the tablet again. Unless I scanned in every pdf, I basically lost all my highlights and notes. I wanted a lightweight portable computer that could not only save pdf's, but also allow me to highlight it manually.

So I did some research, and I thought I found the one. The ASUS Eee Pad Slider. This piece of tech was mine.

(the pseudo-one) (the keyboard slides out! how cool is that)

But then I realized that it was a Droid. And Droids don't have any pdf highlighting tools like pdf xchanger. And Droids don't have Microsoft Office. And I need Microsoft Office almost as much as I need air.

So I needed windows (ipad = same probs as droids). I was back to square one.

But then I really found the one. The Asus Eee PC T101MT. It's a tablet with a 10.1" widescreen display and weighs only 2.9 lbs. It's a little on the weak side for processing power and also has a smaller harddrive, but it's got everything else I wanted and MORE.

in with the new.

I. AM. TABLET. pc.

The best part is the Multi-touch feature. You can't use a stylus on an iPad because iPads use a capacitive display (you need electricity aka your body). And you can't use your finger on a tablet pc because tablet pc's use a resistive display (resistives recognize pressure = stylus).

The T101MT combines the best of both worlds. It created a whole new display. a Capacitoresistor one might say. Or multi-touch. With a touch of a button, I can go from flipping a book on my Kindle PC to highlighting text on a PDF with a stylus. In three words. HOLY FREAKING AWESOME.

Look Ma, I'm capacitizing!

Resistizing. No smudges while highlighting!

I love this tablet. iPads are all the rage right now. But I gotta say, for the working young urban professional, I predict these Multi-Touch interfaces will steal the market soon. To Asus!