Tomorrow I am moving to college. I won't bore you with the details of how I procrastinated for an entire summer before applying, and another month before finding a place to live. I won't even take much time to gloat about the possibilities or grumble about the potential pitfalls.
No, instead I just thought I'd let everyone know. At this moment I'm packing. Well, thinking about packing. What to take? What not to take? And so on. I bought a phone today. Oil in the car was changed. My hair was cut. I look good. (My car does not, thanks to the malfunctioning robotic car wash which ate six of my dollars.) To make up for that I finally bought a copy of the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack, though at the moment I'm listening to Black Foliage, Animation Music Volume I by the Olivia Tremor Control.
That is all.
Frolic.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Congratulations! Have fun moving. I hope you have a better time at it than I did a month ago. Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
My little Simon, going out into the big wide world. . . *sniff*
Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :
The Great Sizer has been unleashed. RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!!
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
I cann just see them getting rid of that picture on the first link, and replaceing it with Simon!
Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
Way to be Simon.
Finally, you have an actual chance to go on a date. Maybe you can even kiss a real girl?
Good luck.
Posted by David Templar (Member # 580) on :
Welcome to the beginning of the rest of your life, I hope you're not a science major though. They got madz work load.
Posted by Mr. Christopher (Member # 71) on :
Bah!
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Posted by Mr. Christopher (Member # 71) on :
I bought a CD yesterday. ATB's Two Worlds 2 CD set. Although I probably shouldn't have gone to that music store because now I really really want to buy the Mirwais and Safri Duo CDs, which will put me back ~$54...
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Uhhhhm. I bought Windex, Febreez, Soft Scrub, and 409 because my Jeep needs a good cleaning.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I bought large quantities of confusion and disillusionment, as well as Chasing Amy on DVD and a pair of headphones.
I am not writing from college. I've come home for a bit, as school doesn't actually start until Wednesday, and I needed a few things. For instance, peace and quiet.
I've got some amusing stories to tell. Well, not really, but I have some stories that I might be able to tell amusingly.
Hopefully I'll be on ICQ this evening. Unless I stay home. In which case I certainly will. But I really, really, really, really hope you people talk to me while I'm at school. Because, Surprise!, I don't seem to exactly fit in.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Tell more, tell more.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Did you get very far? Tell me more, tell me more, did he have a car?
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
Ah-oooh ha ha! Ah-ooh ha! ha! Ah-ooh ha! ha!
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
CWU, eh? Right there in the heart of good ol' Ellensburg, WA aka cow capital of the world. Seriously Sol, it smells like cows there... that's all I can say about Ellensburg. That, and good luck.... at least you know you won't get lost in your new city! *grin* It's not big enough
Next time I drive through (Which I do on a regular basis) I'll wave at ya..... have fun, and be safe!!!
LOA
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Actually, Liz, if you were to be in Ellensburg you'd be one of the only people I know in the entire county.
Anyway, as far as Ellensburg goes, the best way to describe it is this: Twin Peaks. It's no coincidence that David Lynch hails from the Pacific Northwest.
I'm still home, at the moment, because I can be. Ha ha, freshmen! HA HA HA HA!
Posted by an'on (Member # 222) on :
Ellensburg: -Home of Jerrol's one of my favorite bookstores on the planet. -Home of 5 fascinating individuals who know sign language but aren't human. -Home of the statue of the bull sitting on the park bench that was controversial to the point that the artist had to create a concrete cowboy hat to set on its lap so that some people wouldn't think it obscene. -Home of Dick and Jane's corner of Pearl and 1st. It's a house covered with reflectors. Whe'er it be art or eyesore, it's a novelty. -Home of the Agate Shop, which has neat rocks as well as the rare and measured by the caret Ellensburg blue agates. -Place where one hopes the wind isn't blowing into town during time of slaughter. -Safeway had and may still have a wind guage that is a logging chain as its indicator of wind speed. 'tis a place where one can ride a bicycle while leaning heavily to one side and still remain upright. -Periodically the irrigation canal that the students have named "The Ganges" has beavers that try to dam it up and then go about dismantling campus tree by tree. -Place where I spent the better part of 4 years and who I hear from yearly as the alumni fund is always wishing money.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Is that bookstore really that good? Everyone tells me to buy my textbooks there, but other than textbooks, is there anything there?
I am aware of the bull, though I've never seen it in person.
And the chimps.
I've seen the funky house.
And driven past said rock store, of course.
To emphasize the wind issue, there's a small number of power-generating windmills several miles further up in the mountains. That's windy.
Posted by an'on (Member # 222) on :
Have always appreciated Jerrol's as it is better to be able to have some competition rather than many college bookstores' "take it or leave it" approach. Always found it worth comparing book prices and especially book buyback prices...Jerrol's buyback a decade ago (feels old) tended to be to my financial advantage by $1-$15.
Jerrol's also has two items that I have difficulty finding elsewhere--narrow rule paper, which has more lines than college ruled, and professional looking clipboards that actually have a clip for paper rather than just the slit to slide a paper pad into. Nice to have option of using standard notebook paper, typing paper, graph paper without having to have a pad of paper.
From my visits there this summer they still have laminating facilities for one's posters, art supplies, kites, intersting wrapping paper, books, and all the college apparel designed to get strangers to strike up a conversation with one. "Oh do you attend Central?" This is either a blessing or a curse. Depends on whether one wants help in starting a conversation with strangers or if one would just assume be left alone.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
I go away for a week, and Simon becomes weird to a whole new bunch of people. Without me to offer him helpful advise such as "give people beer" and "The Vc & Bob version of I'm a Believer is the best", and, most important of all, "Don't urinate in your tutors mouth".
