First Weekend. With photos.
Preface to the post: I am currently battling one helluva sinus headache; whether from allergies or weather or some godawful cold thing, I do not know, but it's largely irrelevant. My head feels like it's the size of the Hindenburg (and we all know how well that turned out), and the C-store sells nothing even remotely related to Sudafed. The pharmacy on-campus is closed, otherwise I'd haul myself down there. So if I seem incoherent, that's why.
I moved into WSU Thursday. Friday marked the beginning of First Weekend, with all kinds of crazy things (excuse me for a sec while I grab the schedule. It's all a bit hazy). There was an Honors "breakfast", which ran out of food five minutes after it started, and college sessions, plus a rather nice cookout. I met Eric and his roomie Jake (I think... I met a lot of people that day), mech engineer and public something-or-other respectively. (Jake described himself as wanting to give Dayton a facelift back into the nice city it used to be. Awesome.) We trucked off to convocation, stood outside the Nutter Center in the blazing heat for 45 minutes, then froze inside for another 30. (It was a five minute walk from campus. I have no idea why they allotted an hour to drive us there.) Convocation was good; the best part was when the guy from Google talked. I could listen to him for a few hours. Incidentally, I'm sure I was not the only one wanting to smack the kid who used the question-mic to ask where the next party was.
After dinner (can't remember what it was, but I'm sure it was good), there was the student organizational fair. I got in touch with Chi Alpha and Campus Crusade and will probably join at least one if not both. There was also a group that I can only describe as RenFest roleplay. Y'know those tabletop RPGers that get really into it and wear costumes and everything? Like that, only with an awesome historical aspect. They research the time period and social classes and everything. (Shut up, inner history geek.) Jake and Eric and I played pool for a bit before I headed back and crashed. (Note: regardless of college or dorm, get a mattress pad and possibly an egg crate topper. It makes the beds so much softer.)
Saturday started later (1100) with a great tour of campus so we could figure out where our classes are. There was some good info; for instance, I found out the sweet tunnel system connects everything on-campus except the Russ Engineering Center. Fortunately I'm only in there Tuesdays and Thursdays. Also, as an engineering major, I automatically get billed like $10 in tuition for printing access in the REC, so I have pretty much unlimited printing access there. I will be doing all my printing there, and possibly my roomie's. (Everywhere else it's like 10 cents a page, which stacks up fast.) There was also a great set of skits later called The Real World, which talked about diversity, prejudice, etc. We also got free Qdoba (Tex-Mex stuff; all the food this weekend was free), and there was a comedian... who was really not too funny. Meh. Went back to the dorm, crashed at about 11-ish.
Sunday I hauled myself out of bed for a church service at 1000 (also, I've noticed that recently I reverted to military time-keeping. Thanks a lot, mum) with Chi Alpha, outside in a lovely garden. Very nice - reminded me of chapels back at DC and RCS. Met a ton of people there, including some hardcore RenFesters (hey Carly, how does Oct. 10 sound to you?) who were very funny and very nice. After that we went to Frisch's for lunch (right across the road, and very decent prices), then turned right around and hauled ourselves down to Cincy for the Labor Day fireworks.
Oh. Pictures. Well, on Friday I forgot the camera. Saturday I grabbed the camera, but the batteries crapped out. Which was actually okay, because by the time I went to bed the traveling socks looked like this:
Yup. Wilderness Leyburns, finally finished. Ravelled here.
I took a bunch of pictures before I realized that Janette's Christmas gift was clearly visible in all of them. WTF, self.
So Sunday I started a new one, right there before the service started. (The pastor was really cool with it - came up afterwards to ask what I was making and everything.) It went with me to Frisch's and the fireworks. We parked right in front of a yarn shop but unfortunately did not have time to stop. (Actually, we had tons of time, the others just don't knit and I was not wandering around downtown Newport by myself.)
The sock saw the Belle of Cincinnati (which I was on only a year and a half ago for JS)
and the USS Nightmare - some kind of haunted house/Confederate ironclad conglomeration with music and talking instructions that got really annoying really fast.
The sock got put away so I could finish the first of Carly's socks - and never got taken out again, because the fireworks started. They were quite impressive, especially these:
That's a waterfall of fireworks spilling off one of the bridges spanning the Ohio River. Quite lovely.
The fireworks ended at 2145 9:45. Unfortunately we had gone to the Kentucky side in the hope we would get seats, which meant braving Newport and Cincinnati traffic. We weren't trucking on I-75 untl well after 2300 11:00 (frakitall). I didn't get back to my dorm until after 1 am, where I showered and crashed. Which brings us to today, which mostly consisted of feeling like crap.
Tomorrow I plan to possibly exercise, because my first class is not until two-ish and I'm feeling a little better already. I leave you with this picture of my lamp:
Which says quite a bit about me, I think.
I moved into WSU Thursday. Friday marked the beginning of First Weekend, with all kinds of crazy things (excuse me for a sec while I grab the schedule. It's all a bit hazy). There was an Honors "breakfast", which ran out of food five minutes after it started, and college sessions, plus a rather nice cookout. I met Eric and his roomie Jake (I think... I met a lot of people that day), mech engineer and public something-or-other respectively. (Jake described himself as wanting to give Dayton a facelift back into the nice city it used to be. Awesome.) We trucked off to convocation, stood outside the Nutter Center in the blazing heat for 45 minutes, then froze inside for another 30. (It was a five minute walk from campus. I have no idea why they allotted an hour to drive us there.) Convocation was good; the best part was when the guy from Google talked. I could listen to him for a few hours. Incidentally, I'm sure I was not the only one wanting to smack the kid who used the question-mic to ask where the next party was.
After dinner (can't remember what it was, but I'm sure it was good), there was the student organizational fair. I got in touch with Chi Alpha and Campus Crusade and will probably join at least one if not both. There was also a group that I can only describe as RenFest roleplay. Y'know those tabletop RPGers that get really into it and wear costumes and everything? Like that, only with an awesome historical aspect. They research the time period and social classes and everything. (Shut up, inner history geek.) Jake and Eric and I played pool for a bit before I headed back and crashed. (Note: regardless of college or dorm, get a mattress pad and possibly an egg crate topper. It makes the beds so much softer.)
Saturday started later (1100) with a great tour of campus so we could figure out where our classes are. There was some good info; for instance, I found out the sweet tunnel system connects everything on-campus except the Russ Engineering Center. Fortunately I'm only in there Tuesdays and Thursdays. Also, as an engineering major, I automatically get billed like $10 in tuition for printing access in the REC, so I have pretty much unlimited printing access there. I will be doing all my printing there, and possibly my roomie's. (Everywhere else it's like 10 cents a page, which stacks up fast.) There was also a great set of skits later called The Real World, which talked about diversity, prejudice, etc. We also got free Qdoba (Tex-Mex stuff; all the food this weekend was free), and there was a comedian... who was really not too funny. Meh. Went back to the dorm, crashed at about 11-ish.
Sunday I hauled myself out of bed for a church service at 1000 (also, I've noticed that recently I reverted to military time-keeping. Thanks a lot, mum) with Chi Alpha, outside in a lovely garden. Very nice - reminded me of chapels back at DC and RCS. Met a ton of people there, including some hardcore RenFesters (hey Carly, how does Oct. 10 sound to you?) who were very funny and very nice. After that we went to Frisch's for lunch (right across the road, and very decent prices), then turned right around and hauled ourselves down to Cincy for the Labor Day fireworks.
Oh. Pictures. Well, on Friday I forgot the camera. Saturday I grabbed the camera, but the batteries crapped out. Which was actually okay, because by the time I went to bed the traveling socks looked like this:
Yup. Wilderness Leyburns, finally finished. Ravelled here.
I took a bunch of pictures before I realized that Janette's Christmas gift was clearly visible in all of them. WTF, self.
So Sunday I started a new one, right there before the service started. (The pastor was really cool with it - came up afterwards to ask what I was making and everything.) It went with me to Frisch's and the fireworks. We parked right in front of a yarn shop but unfortunately did not have time to stop. (Actually, we had tons of time, the others just don't knit and I was not wandering around downtown Newport by myself.)
The sock saw the Belle of Cincinnati (which I was on only a year and a half ago for JS)
and the USS Nightmare - some kind of haunted house/Confederate ironclad conglomeration with music and talking instructions that got really annoying really fast.
The sock got put away so I could finish the first of Carly's socks - and never got taken out again, because the fireworks started. They were quite impressive, especially these:
That's a waterfall of fireworks spilling off one of the bridges spanning the Ohio River. Quite lovely.
The fireworks ended at 2145 9:45. Unfortunately we had gone to the Kentucky side in the hope we would get seats, which meant braving Newport and Cincinnati traffic. We weren't trucking on I-75 untl well after 2300 11:00 (frakitall). I didn't get back to my dorm until after 1 am, where I showered and crashed. Which brings us to today, which mostly consisted of feeling like crap.
Tomorrow I plan to possibly exercise, because my first class is not until two-ish and I'm feeling a little better already. I leave you with this picture of my lamp:
Which says quite a bit about me, I think.