Semester 5Anyway: I'm both tired and energy-charged and so I decided to write! It was either write or go back to thinking of school related things to do, which would be hard because I accomplished a lot today. I feel so proud. <3 It only took me twenty minutes or so to get my 4 boxes out of storage and the lugging them back up to my dorm was quite painless except for the first run up in which I forgot that putting the dolly down was a cardinal sin. Luckily I got some random passerby to help me tip the dolly back, which was a miracle because I probably couldn't have done it myself. Each pair of my boxes weighed more than I do. 0_o Not to mention it was some 95 degrees today and there's really only so much heavy lifting and heavy lugging you can do in that heat. Thank god for wheels, eh?
I'm actually surprised all of my stuff fit into the dorm. I have no idea why I have so much clothing and considering I only wear a quarter of the things anyway, it seems a bit ridiculous. I don't even LIKE a surpluss of clothing. I just need several pairs of jeans and tshirts, and the occasional jacket. I love jackets. Or I would, if it was cooler. But yes. Everything fit and holy frick-the dorm actually doesn't look crowded! Granted I still have to get my TV in here and a replacement xbox set up, but even then I think clutter will be minimal. I'm so happy.
It's a nice dorm, slightly on the small side though, and the whole suite mate thing sans living room is a bit weird. I guess I'd like a communal place to set up the TV and the game systems, but the only interconnecting room is the bathroom, which really wouldn't work. xD Oh. And speaking of the bathroom: people! This dorm is expensive! Even with the scholarship, my parents are shelling out a lot of money for this place- so would it kill you, Barrett, to stick a starting roll of toilet paper in the bathroom? Because when my flight gets in at midnight, and I get to the dorms at 1 am, and I have to take a piss, and there's no toilet paper, and I can't leave the building because I'd never get back in because my sun card hasn't been processed through the system yet...I find it malevolently sadistic. The lack of a shower curtain isn't appreciated either, but it's not as urgent as toilet paper. -.- Christ.Toiletry needs aside, the new complex is actually very nice. Big and nice, and green: i don't even want to think about all the water that is being used to keep it that way. We have an air hockey table which I am totally going to steal one day, some big screen xbox/wii deal on certain nights which I should check out, and a fricking awesome dining area complete with a piano. Which was actually being played. I just kind of stuck my head in to see: the place looks too imposing to actually eat in- like it's there for show and not actual use. xD Maybe I'll give it a shot tomorrow. Second floor room isn't half bad. We have talking elevators that speak with this hilariously weird accent and I crack up every time they say, "Going dOWn-" they stretch out the word and make it all funny sounding: exhausted and jet-lagged last night I couldn't even make out what they were saying. Nice view- opens out onto the green corner of Rural and Apache, right across from the Taco Bell and the Drive-in Liquor place. I think right below me is a post for security guards because I've watched at least five different officers come chill out in the shade in their little golf carts.
Sound-proofing is a bit wonky, especially at night when you get the ambulances and cop cars flying by as you're trying to sleep, in pursuit no doubt of that aggravatingly loud turbo-charged car that just ran the red. But it's a small price to pay for a nice view that doesn't stream sun into the room and watching people come and go is actually pretty amusing. I don't know the name of the apartment across the street from the dorm, but they have a pretty kickass pool I want to sneak into
Classes begin on Monday-
tomorrow is my first day back at practice-
tonight is dinner with a few people-
Summer is dying too soon!
Triumph
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抱きしめたいの
Dakishimetaino
"I just want to hold you"
©Chobits
it's not actually a jellyfish but still, it's pretty much awesome lol
That is so frickin cool. It just needs to be blue and glowy <3
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All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep
And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep
All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep
Hey, I can bleed as well as anyone but I need someone to help me sleep
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I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives,
A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives
you'd better take pictures of something other than birds or i will be highly disappointed!
What else? I'm maybe 10 minutes away from a river. And the campus, omg, the campus here? Has huge paddocks full of cows and horses and one hilarious building called: Poultry Science, lmao. XD Also: I met this weird French guy who has a farm on the wildlife preserve where we work and dresses like a sheriff (down to a working pistol and spurs). He's a total sexist and seemed to judge me by my answer to this totally random question he asked me when I met him...which was: If you were stuck in a lifeboat with two others and someone had to die, would you jump overboard and sacrifice yourself, or eat one of the other people?
.......
.........Come again?
And he was totally serious. Wouldn't leave me alone until I answered. So I said something like: if the people in there with me asked such random questions, they deserved to be eaten.
And I couldn't tell if I impressed or offended him, lol.
Anyway, this dude occasionally invites us to his Howling Coyote Saloon for lunch and we're going to go back there for free Bison burgers sometime this week. Bison burgers! The novelty!
Let's see...work is good. I had a brutal two days in which we helped other people with their wetland surveys because the birds were being relatively quiet. There are over a 100 ponds in the Reserve and "perimeter work" as it was called, involved walking around the edge of each one, holding a GPS in one hand and scrambling with the other. Follow the waterline, was the instructions. Ha. Sounds easy enough, yeah? But it wasn't. I quickly learned that there are three kinds of ponds--in order of most evil to least it goes something like: reedy, woody, clear.
The reedy: surrounded by reeds (duh) but I don't think you appreciate how sinister reeds are until you have to walk on them. Each step, you had pull your boot free of them, (which was made all the more difficult by the fact that, by this time, your boots are full of water and weigh some frickin' 5 pounds) and then step down. Each time you stepped down, you'd go right through the reeds into mud and water up to your knee. Then it was wrench your boot free, again, and repeat the process for as long as it took to get around the lake. It was ridiculous. I have never been so exhausted. The effort of lifting water filled boots free of mud and rushes was insane. I was so dead.
The woody: Basically entailed forcing your way through both live and dead brambles and willows. I got branches in my eyes, down my clothing, got my hands all cut up, it was brutal. Once we had to scramble up and over a dead willow that had fallen into the water and I almost ended up head first in the mud.
Then there's the really muddy ponds, which were plain fun by comparison. I got stuck twice. Once, with my boss and she levered me up and out easily, and the other by myself. In the middle of nowhere. Both boots sunk so deep that I couldn't pull them free. It was kinda funny and kinda bad at the same time. I had to pull my socks out of the boots, spread my weight over the mud, and then yank the boots free knowing that, at any moment, I could just sink right in.
It was quite the experience.
After pond duty, birds are even more amazing.
But yeah: enough rambling: How is your time in Arizona? Die of heat-stroke yet?
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All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep
And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep
All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep
Hey, I can bleed as well as anyone but I need someone to help me sleep
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