Thursday, February 03, 2005

 

You know you're a nerd when. . .

. . . you get so excited about a new tecchie backpack that you have to blog about it.

I've been using my laptop more in class this semester, and I've been lugging it around in a regular backpack. The pack is high quality, but isn't made to carry a 7 pound computer and another 23 pounds of notes, texbooks, pens, lip balm, chocolate, Cold-Eeze, and other staples of the vet student lifestyle.

So while I stopped at the office supply store for notecards and a five-pound tin of Royal Dansk cookies last night, I decided to drop a small fortune on a bag that can actually hold all my stuff.

I'm so glad I did.

It's got a special padded pocket for the computer, plus the remainder of the bag has more space than any backpack I've ever owned. There's a compartment just for texbooks and binders, with a sturdy divider to further organize books, plus another deep comparment that's made for notebooks and folders. This pocket is deep enough to fit a few grapefruit (my usual 10 a.m. snack) and water bottle in addition to the notebooks!

And of course, there's compartments for my pens and gadgets, and two side pockets for miscellany.

The only downside: no lumbar padding. There's a waist belt, but no lumbar support. I'm a strong believer that if a bag is big enough to warrant a waist belt, it probably needs lumbar padding. So I tightened the waist belt and secured foam padding around it with electrical tape to make my own little lumbar "pillow."

Now it's the perfect bag. (Let's just ignore the fact that it protrudes about four feet out from my back, exacerbating the already clumsy stumbling of a 5-ft runt.)

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