Oh my god you guys....

This is the very first thing I'm typing on my Alphasmart Neo2 Ahhhhhh!!!!! It's so CUTE!!!! I'm always a little worried about buying tech secondhand online but I've had this thing on for apx 30 seconds and I fear I am already obsessed with it,,, we'll see if any issues crop up but for now this is PERFECT   EEE

 I know I'm in a bit of a gadget and gizmo era between this and the camcorder, so I probably better cool it for a while. Story is that I was thinking of getting myself some sort of reward for finishing nanowrimo this year, and I thought, well,,, maybe I'll finally get myself a Freewrite! That's something I've wanted for years, but I've always been put off by the pricetag. I haven't checked in a while, so I sort of assumed that it was, like, Broke College Student expensive.

No it was not!!!! I simply cannot justify spending the cost of a new macbook on a glorified word processor!!!!!

Then I remembered seeing some folks talk about older devices with the same purpose, and Now, my alphasmart......... Less than a third of the price of the lowest end freewrite! I could've picked a cheaper listing, too, but like I said I get nervous about secondhand tech and I wanted one that seemed In Good Shape. 

I recognize that this is Way Early for a nano reward, but unfortunately once I start thinking about something I simply cannot put off doing it, So . I will simply have to get rid of it if I don't win ig. (Nano is going fine btw--hoping to hit 14k today!)

I've been back and forth for a long time on whether a Freewrite or something similar is just a silly vanity tool. But ultimately, I think writing like this really helps me; My brain cannot separate the concept of a laptop from multitasking and distraction. I've been feeling a lot better about my writing since I switched to doing the bulk of it by typewriter, but there are Several Inconveniences to that setup that this thing solves. The biggest one is that I can actually use this on the go! (I do have a lil manual typewriter with a carrying case that I could take around, but I'm not Quite annoying enough to bring that thing to the library .... this is discreet enough to not make me feel like an asshole when I use it.)

Really excited to take this thing on the train in December :) I will be romanticizing the shit out of that train ride

Anyway....... Time for me to figure out how the wholeeee file transfer with this thing works . I hope y'all actually get to see this lil trial run                                         

-> yet another recording pulled off , we might actually be doing this lads ???

-> watched practical magic with my sister and that actually is an everything movie

-> finished my durge run .  something so bittersweet about this when it's been going for so long but it's good to be done 

-> put up halloween decor :) and helped run the trunk or treat at work which was actually a ton of fun!

-> finished dracula and it was such a good read wahh.... miss this book already

-> started los espookys bc i've become suddenly obsessed w julio torres and this is kind of just what i needed to supplement spn studying



looking forward to next week . . . 

-> saturday november 1st  . it begins

-> over the garden wall watch party mwahaha

still being haunted by visions of the pactbound cast in halloween costumes ................ i simplyyy cannot stop thinking about vriar dressed in the fucking i don't dance baseball uniforms . you know it's bad when you can't even listen to the high school musical 2 soundtrack without thinking about the little guys in your head

anyway i keep forgetting wip wednesday so here is SOMETHING for all the vriarnators out there (me. i am the one and only vriarnator)

( wip wthursday )