i need to get around to buying...

I'm sitting in class, trying hard not to fall asleep. I should be taking notes in this class since I never do the reading, but I am not motivated (I blame it on senioritis and not the fact that I have been an unmotivated student for the last 4 years). If I wasn't so tired (I stayed up 'till 5 reading on my Amazon Kindle), I would be shopping for new clothes or sunglasses online. I've become one of those e-shoppers that cannot just buy one thing. If I'm browsing through a store, I need to buy 2,3 or 50 things in order to justify the $2.99 s&h charge. And I am a sucker for bargains too. Before I pay at checkout, I search for all kinds of discount codes that I could apply to my order so I get that 5% or 6% off. And if there are multiple discount codes available, I apply the one that offers the most discount, and than write the rest down in the comment box, hoping the seller will take notice of my ingenuity (have a good chuckle to him/herself) and decide to apply all the discount codes to my order. Which brings me to the point of this entry. I honestly don't need any more clothes (and all my friends and family can attest to that. In fact, my brother periodically sends me documentary clips on YouTube about people who launder money from their companies in order to satiate their appetite for shopping, convinced that I will become one of them in the future), what I should be buying are things that will really improve the quality of my life and make my life a little bit more bearable.

For example, what I really need to buy is one of those protective privacy screen for desktop/ laptops from 3M for my two laptops. I carry my laptop with me everywhere I go (except for the gym, although if the treadmill, the elliptical, or the spinner had a mount for a laptop, I would take it to the gym as well). And since I just bought a new MacBook Air few months ago, I want everyone to know that I own one and bask in my Apple glory. Anyways, the thing is that I always bring my laptop to class. I use it to take notes (e-shopping/ trying to revitalize the economy because God Bless America) and write e-mails to long lost friends and etc. The fact is that I'm a very paranoid person, not because I do drugs or engage in any kind of illegal activities online, but I just am and have been ever since I was a fat kid in middle school. Every time I come to class and I am about to start up my laptop, I am convinced that when the screen turns on, some kind of porn that I was watching the night before but did not finish, will pop up on the screen and alert the people around me to what a pervert I really am when I'm alone in my dorm room. Even if the computer that I now carry to class is a new one that I specifically bought for my school work (it has less memory space for porn storage), I am always convinced that I did watch the porn on it the night before (I imagine scenarios where, my dinner from the school dining establishment was laced with some kind of rape drug/ other forms of hallucinogens that might have inclined me to watch porn on the computer without me being able to remember it next day).
So every morning when I'm in class, I go through this ritual where I open my laptop about an inch so that the screen flickers on, but I hold down the power button for 10+ seconds so that the laptop reboots. I'm sure, I look much more like a freak doing that, but I'd rather be the odd kid in class who reboots his computer everyday than the kid who forgot to turn off his porn from the night before and is now parading it in class (what kind of porn I watch is nobody's business but my own!).

So, if you are ever stumped on what to get me for Christmas, Bar Mitzvah, my birthday, my half-birthday, I passed my midterms day, I passed my finals day, (I celebrate all those once a year, because I love receiving gifts) you could potentially get me 3M privacy screens for my MacBook Air and my MacBook Pro 15 inches. At first, I will be extremely disappointed by your cheapness, but than I'll eventually realize the practicality of your gift and learn to forgive you (although it's very probable that I'll return the favor by getting you an even cheaper gift).