So it was a long week. Man, oh man. Well, it really wasn’t that bad. Lots of reading to do this weekend. All of my professors seem really nice, so I’m really happy about that. Right now I have biology, statistics, chemistry, marching band, women’s chorus, Japanese, and a freshmen orientation class. I really like the Japanese class (although I may have met my first college creeper. We’ll wait and see…) so I really don’t mind working and doing homework in that class.

I’m doing fencing! It’s  lot of fun!! I missed Friday’s practice but I’m going again Monday. Hopefully soon I’ll be pretty decent! There are a lot of kids in the… club? Yeah, I guess I would call it more of a club.

Marshall came to visit today. It was a lot of fun seeing him. I’ve been talking to him, but I haven’t seen him for two weeks. Tomorrow’s our six month anniversary!! I’m so surprised it’s already been that long! It sure doesn’t seem like it. Hopefully he can come back and visit in the next two weeks.

Psych and Monk are back on, but I can never seem to get to watch them! I brought a TV that has a VHS player, but of course, it doesn’t record anything. So I have to either catch reruns, or watch them online. The only problem with going online is that there is an eight day delay. So hopefully I can catch a rerun tonight of Psych. I saw this past week’s Monk, but it ended at 1am and I was just too tired to stay up until 2am to watch all of Psych. It makes me sad though. I used to watch all of my shows with my mom, and now I can’t. It’s going to be really weird watching everything without her.

Well I’m off to go study a bit. I have a lot of reading and note taking to do. But I already decided that today was going to be my relaxation day, and that I was going to work all day tomorrow. I mean, I really have nothing else better to do. One of the girls in my hall, yesterday was her birthday. So we’re going to have some cookies and cupcakes (but still try and avoid the freshmen fifteen) in celebration. Then we might all crawl into my room to watch a movie off of my computer. So adios amigos!

Tomorrow is the first day of classes!! I’ve got Biology from 8:00-9:50, Statistics from 11:00-11:50, and Chemistry from 12:00-12:50.

Wish me luck!!

And I’m officially back online and running! To sum up the last few days in a nonnutshelling form because apparently I’m bad at nutshelling:

1. We did move in Monday. Oh my god. It was probably the most stressful and ridiculous thing that has ever happened to me. So they told us we could get our keys to start moving in, but we had to go and unlock our temporary dorms first and then return the key so we could get our new room keys. So as we’re getting ready, because we didn’t know we would be leaving and weren’t entirely packed, this group of guys came into our room. The music affiliated sororities and fraternities or whatever were going to help us move, since we were moving across campus. So these guys come in and are like “Okay, what’s your room number, and what can I take?” These three guys had all of our stuff out of the room in five minutes. Three girls, all of our stuff, and they had it gone!! It was insane! I was shoving stuff in bags, tearing my sheets off the bed, etc. So then one of the girls I was rooming with and I run over and get our new keys (meanwhile, my other roommate had to ride in a truck with some guy she never met named Spike while holding a tuba). So we rush over to our new dorms and the guys start unloading. But get this, the dorms aren’t exactly done yet. All of the rooms were sort of finished. One of my friends didn’t have AC and her window wouldn’t open. My door wouldn’t lock. And there is cardboard and plastic sheets and random stuff sitting in the halls everywhere. So my roommates have to go back for something and I realize I’m missing two of my bags and my computer monitor. So I kind of freaked out. Luckily it got into the other girls rooms, so it all worked out. And this whole charade, happened in one hour. It was the most exhausting thing we had ever done!!

2. Okay so real quick explanation on the roommate thing: Kate and Ann were my temporary roommates when we couldn’t move in to our actual dorms. They’re best friends and have known each other for a longer time. They also are both piccolos. Then through band we met another girl named Mandy, who is also a piccolo. And when we moved into our actual dorms, it turns out that Kate and Ann are across the hall from me, and Mandy is next door. My actual roommate, Marisa, is coming on Saturday with the rest of the freshmen.

3. Get this. I found my ID card the day after I got a new one!! I was so angry! And it was in a logical place too! I had stuck in the very back pocket of my wallet, where I usually never put things except my phone. I must have stuck in there when I was in a hurry. Poopie.

4. Band is pretty hectic, but fun. We pretty much have practice all day. I’m on my lunch break right now. Kate, Ann, and I walked over and got cords so we could hook our computers up to internet. So here I am!! We’ve already learned the drills to two songs, and we’re starting the third one tonight. Should be joyous.

5. I’m pretty much settled in my room. I don’t have all my clothes unpacked because my mother has my hangers. And I’m still missing some stuff. But overall I’m unpacked. The rest will be done when my roommate moves in. My parents are driving down to bring the rest of my stuff, the fridge, and the TV (which I forgot to pack originally). But it’s pretty comfy. And it’s been so hot here, I keep it really cold in my room. Like, my thermometer reads 61.3 degrees right now. I really like it though. I just throw on a jacket if I get chilly. My bed it six or seven feet off the ground, and it’s hard to climb up to, so I really don’t get under the covers unless I’m going to bed or will be up there for a while. The worst part is that my door sort of doesn’t lock. I thought it didn’t lock at all at first, but I figured it out kind of. The handle won’t move like it’s locked, but you can just push the door open. So you pretty much have to really pull. And since I’m not very strong, I have to put all of my weight into it.

5. Damn!!So as I was typing this, the maintenance guy and my senior resident assistant came in and did something to my AC unit. They were really nice, no big deal. But my SRA just said that they changed the parameters so that it only goes from 75 degrees to 65 degrees!! Damn! Now my room isn’t going to be as cold! Which slightly annoys me. Okay, it really annoys me.

I do believe that’s all. No more nutshelling for today!

So I’m here in college. I’ve only been here for… a little over 24 hours. And so much has happened! I’m going to list it all and nutshell it, because I’m not sure how much time I have.

1. We got all packed. We get to my college (it’s only about an hour and a half away). When we got here, we found out that my room is not ready. We knew they were doing all of this construction. And it turns out, they’re not done. They’re pretty much redoing the entire building, without tearing anything down. Which will be nice because we’ll have brand new mattresses, carpeting, paint, etc. So since it isn’t done, all of the band students (which is why I moved in this past weekend. Everyone else including my roommate move in Sept. 5th) were placed into temporary rooming. So right now I’m in a lounge where they threw in some beds and closets. I’m here with two other girls who already knew each other. They’re really  nice. I’m actually borrowing one girl’s laptop to type this, because I don’t want to set my computer up if we’re moving out soon. We’ve heard we might get to move in Monday, or Tuesday, or Wednesday, or Thursday. So we’re not really sure. My parents and I snuck into the dorms we’re supposed to be in, and it doesn’t look like they will be ready by tomorrow. We looked in Saturday evening, so maybe they got a lot of work done since then. We’ll see.

(That was horrible nutshelling. That’s basically that whole story.)

2. I lost my student ID card. I couldn’t find it this morning, meaning I lost it when I’ve been here less than a day. So now I have to go buy a new one. Joy. Luckily I can still get into the dining hall since I know my student ID number. But I’d really like to get a card again soon, so I don’t hold up the line. I’m just afraid they’ll change their mind and they won’t let me in without my card. They posted signs today that said you can’t get in without your card. Since I had my number the girl let me in. But I’m just worried that if its an older, mean woman (you know, you’re typical scary lunch lady) she won’t let me in. So that’s another wait and see.

So that’s basically the whole story. There are some more details, but I can add them later. I might make a new page up top there with the details. We’ll see.

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