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College is craziness

April 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Really, it is. There was a huge fiasco about where 16 of us will be living next year and, as of now, we have nowhere. What happened was this; ResLife told 30 groups of 2 people that they would be living in one set of apartments. We are to come to a meeting at 5pm on Monday to pick out where we will be living (which specific apartment). The process goes by each group’s combined lottery number, low to high (lottery numbers are assigned based on GPA/number of units completed/whatever else the school wants to use). We get in there, sit down and one of the residence hall directors explains all of this and, as we’re all sitting there, staring up at the diagram of the building, we start to realize that it’s short a few apartments. Just before we begin, I raise my hand and ask about that. The RD says “Oh.” They had no idea until right then that there was a problem. They give out the first 22 apartments while the director of ResLife goes over and physically counts the number of apartments they have to give out. We wait, rather distraught, and they finally tell us that they screwed up and we get “first priority in the suite lottery,” which means we’ll be living in the dorms. SO NOT COOL. Particularly living in the dorms means not having to eat in the cafeteria and we all thought that we would be off board. So there are 6 of us trying to live in an annex (lovingly called the screw up annex, for when ResLife makes mistakes) and I have a meeting with the director of ResLife at 3pm today to try and figure out what’s going on. CRAZINESS!

In addition to all that, I was supposed to register at 7:45 this morning, but somehow I managed to slept through BOTH my alarms. Yes, two of them going off at obnoxiously loud volumes. I turned them off in my sleep and only woke up about 20 minutes ago. I, luckily, got all the classes I wanted,  but it never ceases to amaze me how soundly I can sleep if my body thinks I need it. I have answered my phone and had 10 minute long conversations IN MY SLEEP. I’m special.

In knitting knews (haha, I’m funny), I cast on for this two nights ago. I woke up yesterday morning to an inch of snow and it kept coming. I blame myself entirely for thinking warm thoughts and taking warm weather actions, like knitting a tank top, I am sorry for all the snow, folks. I am using Bercco cotton/modal in a really light blue color and I LOVE it. The pattern is super easy and I think it will look cute on me. I am already through 1 skein (they’re small, less than 100 yards) and I feel like it’s just going to be easy like this from here on out. I can’t wait too wear it!

Time to get back to my reading :) It’s Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, for english class, but it’s excellent!

Categories: Knitting · Reading · School

April 3, 2007 · 1 Comment

I still have not found my camera cord, so no pictures as of yet. Maybe I will borrow Amanda’s camera and take some. Also, once Amanda posts, I will put up pictures from the excitement this weekend that was THE YARN HARLOT! Yes! I met my knitting idol (yes, I have a knitting idol). She came, I knit re-knit an entire calorimetry whilst waiting, Amanda, Jenni, and I gave her chocolate, she took our picture when I told her that my boyfriend and I broke up the day before (forgot to mention that, my arse insensitive ohsolovely now ex-boyfriend decided to come over at 3am on Friday night, when I was sleeping, and I decided that that was the last straw). Keep an eye on her blog, I might have my picture on it. She also complimented me on my tank top *that I knit* and I am nearly positive that I made a fool of myself thanking her/speaking to her at all. The poor woman had been up since 3:30 in the morning, flown from Cleveland to Chicago to Detroit and then back to Chicago due to fog in Detroit. She finally hopped a plane to Detroit and arrived two and a half hours late with a stranger she had met on the plane. Quite an adventure, I’m sure. It was a ton of fun, however, and I can’t wait until I get pictures to prove that it all even happened!

Now I need to do some school work and get back to reading Arthur A. Miller’s Death of a Salesman for class.

Happy Passover!

Categories: Friends · Knitting · Reading · School

I am a terrible blogger.

March 25, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I really am. I am sorry! Part of the reason is that I really wanted this blog so that I would have a place to upload pictures and whatnot, but, sadly, I do not have my camera cord to do so (I have no idea where it is…I will try and find it next weekend when I’m home). Another reason is that it’s been so busy around here the past month that I haven’t had time for much else besides school work. I promise I will update on a semi-regular basis from now on : )

But now, it is time for some Steinbeck (East of Eden) because Alex got me back into a Steinbeck mood.

Categories: Family · Friends · Reading