outlining; desk attaching

right now i am pretty tired. finals are coming up and i have been studying very hard. possibly not as hard as last semester, and for not as long. it's spring, and that makes it hard to focus. i skipped an ultimate tournament this weekend, and this morning when i walked into the law school to make my way down to the windowless library basement, it was sad.

in the library, i usually study in a carrel that looks something like the one pictured here. that way, i have a minimum of distractions and can spread my books all over the place and just focus. the library is a pretty safe place, and one has to pass numerous security guards to get into the school and then into the library, so i have felt pretty safe using my precious laptop in there and leaving it for bathroom breaks, etc. however, one of my t.a.s recently had her laptop stolen, a disaster of quite immense proportions, so i decided the security efforts had to be redoubled.

my college-era laptop lock has been sitting in my locker all year, so i busted it out and brought it down to the library, only to realize that carrels like the ones we use have absolutely no poles or other protrusions around which a lock can be fastened. i sat there musing for a while, got to work, and finally decided that i absolutely had to go get lunch. i didn't want to do that without locking my computer (his name is Milton), and that's when a bright idea hit me. i looped the lock cord around the arm of my desk chair, below the desk, and through the small hole in the desk designed for power cords. i am not one to creatively problem solve when the problem has a physical/three dimensional component, so i was exceedingly proud of myself.

then i came back from lunch and realized that i could have just locked it to the chair without further maneuverings; it would probably be difficult to filch a laptop attached to a large wooden chair. the setup looked pretty sharp, though.