For everyone who saw the Facebook pictures, those are plastic bathroom cups filled with generic-brand green tea. It's kind of a long story ( Read more... )

Things that have happened ( Read more... )

Day one has happened! And I just wanted to post and say that I am alive and faring so far quite well. And you all will, too! I've been here...maybe fifteen hours and I already have so much to tell you, but the orientation schedule is very hardcore and I only manage to sneak online in the ten minute intervals between activities. So send me things, ( Read more... )

Here it is! This is a) the first entry typed from my laptop (and the neighbor's wireless internet, heh) and b) my last entry before I leave super-early tomorrow morning ( Read more... )

So I started packing this evening. Most of the time it was monotonous, put-the-shirts-in-the-box, make-sure-they-don't-wrinkle, but every so often it would hit me - I'm putting this shirt in the box, and I won't see it again until I'm THERE. And that thought was so overwhelming that I would ignore it and go back to my monotonous folding, until ( Read more... )

I am discovering that coffee and cold mornings make me a better person. As of late I have been tired and sluggish all the time - I come home from work, eat dinner, and fall asleep, wake up long enough to wash my face and check my email, and the crash again. But today, I woke up in the freezing cold and drank a vanilla latte and I've been a really ( Read more... )

Two weeks until school starts and I am madly behind on college shopping. Yesterday I had a brief stop at Old Navy, where I bought a pile of tshirts and tank tops - other than that, my to-buy-for-school list remains untouched. It's scary - I feel ready to go, but not physically ready, and I'm worried right now not about classes and dining halls and ( Read more... )

I AM GOING TO GETTYSBURG.

Yesterday I finally visted Gettysburg. To be honest I don't even know why I applied there - it was such a whim, I seriously said to myself, I should apply to more than two schools and the essays for this one don't look too bad. I got in and they gave me a nice scholarship but I didn't really care because I was pretty much ready to go to Penn State ( Read more... )

Inspired by Visko's "we were merely freshmen" post, I realized I'd been thinking this, but never put it down anywhere ( Read more... )