The Unthinkable

i'm no longer the kind of kid who's all anti-microsoft (being 25 means i don't have time for soapbox tirades -- and, cough, i now have a mac). but i was willing to give the free office substitute program a go, because it's, well, free.

but after neo-office shut down on me for the nth time, and i realized that my never-ending paper of doom (currently at 33 pages, without the 5 pages of images i need to stick in there) was going to be even longer and the formatting get all messed up when emily opened it with ms office, i decided it was time to succumb.

so: office 2008.

i never realized just how comfortable i am with word (as opposed to neo-office "writer"), even though it's the 2008 edition and i've hardly ever used it before. i also hadn't realized how much prettier it is than the no-frills, weird-buttons neo app.

*sigh of relaxation*

yes, dear readers, before you freak out, yes. yes. i sold my soul to the devil, and i'm ok with that. at least my headers (first page different) and my footnotes (all 40 of them, in times new roman 10 with superscript numbering and one space instead of one tab space between number and note) don't need to be individually formatted anymore.