I'm running out of a lot of last semester's stuff this week. I ran out of the last of last semester's shampoo (heh, I had a ton left) a few days ago, and I just now ran out of last semester's laundry detergent. It's all very symbolic! It's time for me to stop using the me from last semester as a crutch and move on to the new, this-semester me! Or ( Read more... )

The freshmen registered this morning. I was hoping they wouldn't need me for anything, but alas I was called upon to, essentially, stand there while they figured out the problem on their own... later I also helped another one choose classes to go from 13 to 19 credits. Not a wasted morning, though I would have preferred to sleep in... especially as ( Read more... )

So one of the freshmen managed to already clog one of the toilets. By throwing up in it. Because he had been drinking.

Yup, this is gonna be fun.

I left off at the college celebration... um, we went and sat outside and listened to people talk. Then we went to eat dinner, which was interesting... we sat on the steps in the pit 'cause there certainly ( Read more... )

Where did I last leave off...?

Oh yeah! Freshmen!

Let's see. I can summarize move-in day in one word, and that word is: pain. Physical pain. Of the when-do-I-get-to-stop-carrying-heavy-boxes sort.

If we start at the beginning... after breakfast, and procrastinating for a bit because none of us really wanted to go stand outside, we... went to go stand ( Read more... )

It's been a little while...

Continuing List of Books Read in 2009:

1. Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale (Russell T. Davies and Benjamin Cook)
2. Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Traitor (Matthew Stover) (reread)
3. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (Frederick Douglass)
4. Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the ( Read more... )

This joke doesn't have a punchline.

So training started yesterday! I would have talked about it yesterday, as would have made more sense, but I had a headache and was not in any kind of mood to be writing. Bother. Hopefully it won't be a recurring thing, 'cause that would just be annoying.

Training yesterday was split into two parts. The first ( Read more... )