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For the last little while, by which I mean, oh, as long as we have lived in this house, which is nearly a YEAR now, you all, my laptop battery has been crapping out on me. Recently, like since my trip to New York, it started lasting a total of 11 minutes from the time I unhooked it from the wall plug (does that thing have a name? I’m sure it does) until it went into the Sleep of Death and demanded that I plug it back in if I wanted to finish whatever I was working on. I constantly had to find a plug if I wanted to work, which kind of limited where I could sit during the work day.

Oddly, this didn’t really bother me, because apparently my memory is very short and I had completely FORGOTTEN how much I loved things like taking the iBook into the sunroom to read my email or browse at J. Crew or sit on the sofa and IM with Chris about things we had talked about on the phone an hour earlier.

Oh and work. That too.

On Friday, I finally dragged myself to the Apple store and had a Genius diagnose the problem (the battery, she is dead! shocking, I know). As an aside, this is my second Apple Genius Bar experience, and while both Geniuses were professional and helpful, they both had the personality of a turnip and absolutely NO sense of humor. I’m funny, you all, especially when I am talking about my relationship to technology, but neither of these guys so much as cracked a smile. Apple, would it KILL you to teach the Geniuses to be smart AND funny? I think not.

Then again, the Geniuses fixed my beloved iBook, twice, so what am I bitching about? I have no idea.

Also last week, I was offered a job, a really good job, but in my dead battery state I didn’t think I could commit to it. And then I started to think that I couldn’t even keep up with the work I was currently committed to do so I cut back on a few things, and then I started to have some kind of Existential Crisis about, oh, I don’t know, EVERYTHING because OMG I CAN’T KEEP UP AND MY BATTERY IS DEAD. And I said no to the job.

And while I knew that it was the right thing to do, I also wondered if it was the wrong thing to do.

I lucked out, because after I declined the job they came back and offered it to me again. And when I told Wade, he said, “Take it. You know you want to.” And I realized that he was right. I do.

You know, now that I’ve got that new battery and everything.

20 Comments so far

Congratulations!

Too bad you never hit the bar where my bro worked. He would have made You laugh first. And he’s the best MacGenius I know.

Congrats on whatever job this may be.

Woot!

And funny thing, I just dealt with the Genius Bar turnips today (in fact, I updated my blog AT THE STORE while I was seething over how long I had to wait to see a Genius–anyway, now you have a fully charged laptop to help you in your new job, and I have a working iPod to keep me from imploding from boredom when I was dishes. And fold laundry. And make beds.

Apple–it’s what’s for breakfast!

I’ve never had one of the “geniuses” at the bar smile or laugh at my jokes either (and I’d dropped my iPhone in a toilet…now what’s funnier than THAT?)…I thought it was just me, now I know better.

Sorry, the above is missing a closed parenthesis) and I

WASH dishes,

not

I was dishes.

But you knew that, probably. I mean, we’ve met. I am not, nor have I ever been, a dish.

A new job! You’re so popular!

But where, when, what????

another job? congrats! i want to be you when i grow up.

ahhhh genius computer diagnostics. They are a mystery.

Ahh…a new battery can make ALL the difference in life.

Congrats on the new job! And the new battery!

Congratulations on the new job!

A new battery! Another job! I can’t wait to find out what it is!

I hope this new job entails more of your great writing that we can read! And congratulations!

I have only been to the Genius Bar with my iPod and I waited so long for my genius that I was brain dead, so I can’t remember if he had any personality or not. I do remember I wanted to punch him when he told me all my songs and podcasts were lost forever.

We have a phrase for people like that… they might know Pi R squared, but they don’t know Tic Tac Toe. (Me, I’m a Tic Tac Toe champ.)

ARGH! No details about the job?! You’re killing me. Susan! Tell!

Yay! A new job and a new battery… Congrats!

Forgive me, I’m a PC user. Are the Genius Bar guys like the Geek Squad at Best Buy, only Apples? Oh, geez, that makes it sound like the Geeks are all Oranges.

Can’t wait to hear about this job!

congrats on the job

My battery is slowly dying, too - I’ve had my MacBook for 18 months and the battery capacity is now 79% and going down But I do know how much I appreciate working on the couch or going to bed with the laptop to watch an episode of Sex and the City before going to sleep - so I think I’ll pay a visit to the Apple store very soon, and I mean the online one (Belgium has like 3 Apple stores for the whole country, driving an hour to hear a Genius tell me what I already know isn’t worth the trip)

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