Luckily, on Saturday I noticed that OfficeMax had a great sale on a 19" widescreen LCD monitor and voila:

It's amazing how much nicer it is when you have a full sized keyboard and monitor. Believe it or not, this isn't as extravagant as it might seem, one of my monitors at home was dying so I figured that picking up a replacement monitor here would work well. Now I don't have to worry about shipping a dodgy monitor across country and this one is very nice :-D.