As I Collapse Into My Comfy Chair...

Ended up staying up until two Friday night getting everything fully unpacked and organized, which made waking up at 7 pretty rough. That and the fact that I hadn't practiced getting down from my bed, and since my obnoxiously loud alarm was going off I was in a bit more of a hurry than I should have been, and that caused some problems. Alas, you live, you learn. Interesting thing about mornings, my window faces east now instead of West, so the sun comes streaming in bright and early. I prefer that actually, I should be up anyway, and that helps. Besides which, as I sit here right next to the window I can literally get a tan without leaving my room. Very cool. I even started working on my bullentin board, so I have actual pictures up, which generally doesn't happen until like 6 months into the year when I finally decide to get my act together.

Had our house meeting last night, with just about everyone in attendance, which was interesting. Turns out there's a total of 8 people on my floor, that's it. Three doubles, and one other single besides myself. On the 2nd and 3rd floors they have 12, and on the 4th only 8. This totals up to 40, which is interesting since last year just on my floor and the one below it we had 50. Seems like it's going to be a much more optimal setup. I've met 5 of the other 7 guys on my floor so far, and don't forsee any potential problems. Turns out even though the house is almost entirely juniors and seniors, only 3 of us are 21. Two of them being in singles. I'm sure that'll be interesting. My R/A seems cool, first female one I've had, previous 3 years were all male. She's on the first floor as well, but on the other side of the lobby, which requires going through two different interior doors. I'm also nowhere near either staircase and as far away as possible from the elevator, so I figure even though I'm on the first floor I'm not going to see much traffic. The one negative aspect of it is security, if my window is open I can see someone finding it quite easy to get inside if I'm not here. That and even a prank like a water balloon chucked into the screen would nail my monitor and everything else on my desk pretty good. I'm sure in that case there would be consequences for the moron responsible, but to be safe I'll probably keep my window closed and the fan on instead most of the time.

Today the other half of the dorms move in, but all of Manzanita moved in yesterday, so I'm not working or anything. Snagged most of the books I need for school minus one class, which cost a lovely 324 even though it was only like 5 thin books. Gotta love the two $100 ones that look like they were made for 50 cents. Still no bike, but I'll finally be able to move my car once my permit gets here either tomorrow or the next day, since they of course had to mail it to my permanent address after 5 working days, and given we were only allowed to request it 4 days before I came, that didn't work out all that well.

It's really cool that just about everyone I know on campus is in this Quad now, so we're all a hop skip and a jump away from visiting each other. Should be quite the cool year.