Anticipation
Six days. Six days of anticipation -- at once both exhilarating and filled with anxious energy -- waiting, waiting for my MacBook to arrive.
Ordered on July 21st; it finally arrived on Friday, at work, wrapped in it's shiny box.
This thing is simple as to use; within 15 minutes of opening it up, and turning it on, I already had it syncing with my cell phone, pulling over all my contacts and appointments in my calendar. Also, everything is about as slick as possible, characterised especially by the way the Mac smoothly slides away the desktop to bring Front Row in whenever you click the 'menu' button on the remote.
Within about a half hour of having it, I had run out of things to tinker with; with damn near everything already configured to my liking, I was bored*. The solution? Start creating. While pulling my photos off of my phone, I found a rather nice one looking out across Sydney Harbour at the bridge. Still wanting for something to keep me occupied, I then began a rather lame essay in Pages about the history of Sydney's "Coathanger", with the centrepiece being my lovely photo. This essay shall never see the light of day, thank God (for you, trust me).
All in all, incredibly happy with my purchase, even if I have some debt to repay now.
* At this point, I still had no Internet, owing both to the rather dubious proposition of hooking it up to work's wired network; and that all the wireless points nearby were locked (oh, and of course, the minor fact that I had work to do).