Coffee and a Conversation
As Told Over Brunch is a home for intelligent discourse from the twenty-something perspective - so the stuff you gossip about over mimosas on Sunday morning or over takeout on your friend's couch when happy hour ends too early. We love chatting about our lives, whether it be the relationships we’re building (or destroying), lessons we've learned at work, struggles at school, growing pains we've felt, or even the food we’re talking over.
1. Excitement - when you go to your mailbox thinking that your subscription to Reader's Digest has finally arrived.
2. Confusion - when you think the mailman made a mistake by putting what must be someone else's latest edition of Maxim in your mailbox.
All I wanted to do was download iMessage to my MacBook. I had two hours until class; I thought that was plenty of time. Of course, I should have known when it comes to Apple software, there's always several other downloads preceding the intended installation. At least if you're me and never update your stuff.
I got my MacBook freshman year of college and did not update it for four more years. I only did it because I needed to install some other program. My computer was a Leopard at birth (Apple used to name their laptop line after big cats, meow), but by the time I updated, we skipped the whole animal tree and she became a Mountain Lion (rawr). And it was free because being a Mountain Lion was nothing exciting anymore.
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