I bet it's just me.

"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry, it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry, it'll change."

--John A. Simone, Sr.


I just got in my new computer for college—a pretty blue Dell Inspiron. And although, as I told my cousin Val, “David [my 15-year-old, ultra computer-savvy brother] ordered it, so it does a lot of things I don't really understand or consider necessary,” I do like it, and I’m getting used to the whole Windows Vista thing. Slowly. I do have a problem, though, and here it is: I am in love with my Microsoft Word 2003, and it substantially upsets me that I have to, as per my computer’s and my college’s specifications, switch to Microsoft Word 2007. I have worked with Word ’07 in the past.

Yuck.

I feel like a super-intelligent being tried to dumb it down for regular modern humans, resulting in a program that tries to be easy-to-use but only succeeds in frustrating and confusing me. It’s condescending. Seriously! It makes me feel inferior. What was wrong with the whole drop-down menus thing, anyway? I like drop-down menus. Word ’03 has drop-down menus, and remains a very neat and tidy program—not saying it’s never irritated me before, but, then, most things I love do at some point or another.

It’s going to take me a while to get used to the idea of befriending this new program. I dislike the idea immensely.

Do normal people get this attached to their word processors, or is it just me?