i finally did it - i bought a netbook!
the samsung that i was looking at before was on sale, so i decided to just go for it. i had narrowed it down to the samsung and an asus. most of the netbooks are basically the same - just a few minor differences with design, color, etc. i did want one with a larger hard drive space and with windows 7, that cut a bunch out of the running. my other big requirement was that the keyboard was easy to use. since netbooks are smaller, i found that a lot of the netbooks were difficult to actually type on. so i went to best buy and practiced typing... the samsung was the clear winner.

plus i liked the color/design of it - the asus was only available in dark red and i didn't really want a dark red computer :-)

i'm excited to have a computer again, no more sitting up in the hot office every time i want to check my email at home!

other than that, the rest of the weekend was spent at the pool and/or studying. hope the rest of you had a slightly more exciting weekend!