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feeling: tired and... aaaarrrg
listening to: Pop Rocks fizzing on my tongue
Two days later and I STILL feel like a big sticky pile of sappy mushy goo. >_< Yeah... peruse through my previous post if you didn't get that.
This weekend is gonna be interesting. Ok, to start things off, I got a Voicemail over the weekend from the girl who will be my resident advisor on my dorm floor this year. A normal thing for all RAs to call their residents a week before move-in. But, she tells me that move-in day this year will be on Saturday. This sucks because in all my years past, move-in days have been Sundays. Therefore, since we were expecting to move in on Sunday this year as usual, we made plans months ago for Saturday, September 21. Specifically, my mom ordered tickets for the three of us to go to the second-to-last (I think) game to be played by the Cincinnati Reds in their current stadium. So, pretty expensive plans. Well, until I got that Voicemail, we were also planning to make a day of it and spend the afternoon at a mall complex that happens to fall between here and Cinci, for last-minute wardrobe updating and such (in other words, since this is ME, to buy a couple new shirts). Aaaand then, just yesterday, we learned that a college football game between OSU (my school, of course) and the University of Cincinnati had such a huge expected turnout (I guess) that they decided to move it to the stadium where the Cinci Bengals play football. This is, of course, literally right next door to the stadium where the Reds play. See, a normal OSU football game can draw close to 100,000 fans, while this Bengals stadium holds less than 70,000... can't imagine how much smaller the Uni of Cinci's stadium must've been for them to move it. Well, anyway... the football game starts about 4 hours before our baseball game starts. Which means traffic for us inbounds is going to be HELL. There is no way we can get there at a decent time to avoid it; we can either reach the stadium 2 hours early to avoid traffic and consequently have to park about 15 miles away, or we can try to arrive RIGHT when the Reds game is about to start, and risk being caught in traffic for the chance of getting a sliiightly more decent parking spot. Either way, we're pretty much stuffed.
So yeah. On Saturday, I'm expected to move into my dorm, ALONG with all that. So, two things can happen: I can get there as early as possibly Saturday to get my key and drop off my junk and then leave for the Reds game and maybe a couple hours of mall time, adding to the ridiculousness that Saturday will already be, or I can tell my RA to screw that, I can't be there until Sunday afternoon. That won't be a big problem, of course; people move in early or late all the time. Heck, I'd be surprised if any more than half the college population actually moves in on move-in day. But there's a designated day for a reason - it's a lot more convenient for a lot of people, and all the welcoming meetings and activities and such are all scheduled around move-in day. So no matter what I do, unless I miss the Reds game and put my quite expensive ticket to utter waste, I'm gonna miss something. Our first floor meeting comes to mind. It's always the evening of move-in day, so I assume it'll be Saturday this year, unless there's a reason they pushed move-in back a day and therefore plan to have first floor meetings on Sunday, which I doubt. But yeah. The first floor meeting's not something residents are advised to miss. Actually, I think it's "required". Still though, I'm very sure that missing it won't be a problem if I need to... but... err, one thing about that first meeting is, among other purposes, it's a kind of icebreaker thing for everyone on the floor. Everyone gets to know everyone else. Also, remember, I live in a single this year. Therefore, if I miss the introductory floor meeting AND have no roommate to bum some temporary buddies off of, then I'm not gonna know ANYONE on my floor. Cause yeah... all the people I even came close to calling friends from the dorm before were people I met through my roommates. Except two. One of those I happend to share a class with AND attend the same Bible study with, and the other was just an extremely outgoing and social person who happened to be friendly even toward the biggest of sideline, non-social residents such as myself. Neither of them will be living in my dorm again this year, nor will anyone else I've gotten to know over the past 2 years, except poooooosssibly one guy who might be an RA in Siebert again this year... but... I really don't know.
Anyway. Point being I won't know anyone unless I go out and meet people myself. And really, can anyone reading this see that happening? :P Don't get me wrong though... not that being social and knowing everyone on my floor are my biggest concerns about living in the dorm :p, but it has proven to be somewhat... good?... in the past. It was pretty fun getting dinner with previously mentioned outgoing and social neighbor girl last year. Not that I don't prefer hiking to the cafe a block away and getting takeout to eat in my dorm where I can eat alone while watching TV or surfing the net, but it was a nice change of pace. Cause see, not all my dining-with-other-people experiences were quite so pleasant. Some were boring, some were unsettling, some were just kinda a hassle. Actually... only that one was any fun. Well, unless you count browsing the Aeropostale sale with my first roommate and her best friend (previously mentioned guy who miiiight be an RA in Siebert again this year)... but that was a mixed blessing. He was great, but I don't think that roommate much cared for me. :3
Well, that's about it, I guess. My super fun Saturday ahead and my move-in day adventures-to-be. I gotta call my RA back soon to figure out what to do about that...
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 9/17/2002 01:31:00 PM
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