Arglefraster.
Sep. 6th, 2011 07:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aamcnamaraWe have all managed to move in on campus again, hurrah hurrah. It involved me sitting in a car for a couple of hours with plant in my face, but that's okay.
The Mob and I have an apartment in a dorm. We moved all the furniture and unpacked and bought groceries and then discovered that our stove and oven don't work. Um. They are electric; they are plugged in; we're not sure what we're doing wrong. Facilities management, of course, had Labor Day off.
The other oddity is that apparently the groundskeepers thought this summer was a good time to put in a barren wasteland outside our windows. We figured maybe wizards did it. A friend eventually explained to us that there had been a large crevice and that that might have been why the basement of this dorm flooded last year. Okay; I accept "not flooding dorms" as an excuse. But I still really hope they plant some new stuff there.
...since then, apart from the exploration of our kind-of-awesome kind-of-creepy all-confusing basement, the flailing about stoves, the cleaning of everything, and the having of a tea party (we had to borrow electric kettles and make no-bake cookies), we've all been watching Doctor Who pretty much continuously. Namely, the second half of season five (to catch Kate up); and the Christmas special (to catch Kate and Anna up). Shaaark! Next up: all of season six so far.
Aaand we may just all skip convocation today--it's raining and wouldn't be very pleasant in the amphitheater--and have a lesbian movie marathon. I am deeply appreciative of my friends' taste, and am happy to be back on campus with Everyone Ever (except all those people who graduated and left), but am getting kind of eye-achy from watching laptop screens so much. Maybe we can purloin the TV room.
Actual productive-on-classes things done: very very few. I figured out this morning that the western-encounters-in-Afghanistan class (which starts with Alexander the Great) at Smith won't actually work because the buses would conflict with things I'm already taking. Which means I will probably be taking a history class on the Italian Renaissance as seen from the perspective of the populace, which is at MHC and therefore much easier to get to. Figuring out my class schedule: definitely progress. Of course, I have bought precisely zero textbooks so far... ah well.
Off to get dressed so I can go eat breakfast. At least the weather's cooled off. I could almost believe it's September now.
The Mob and I have an apartment in a dorm. We moved all the furniture and unpacked and bought groceries and then discovered that our stove and oven don't work. Um. They are electric; they are plugged in; we're not sure what we're doing wrong. Facilities management, of course, had Labor Day off.
The other oddity is that apparently the groundskeepers thought this summer was a good time to put in a barren wasteland outside our windows. We figured maybe wizards did it. A friend eventually explained to us that there had been a large crevice and that that might have been why the basement of this dorm flooded last year. Okay; I accept "not flooding dorms" as an excuse. But I still really hope they plant some new stuff there.
...since then, apart from the exploration of our kind-of-awesome kind-of-creepy all-confusing basement, the flailing about stoves, the cleaning of everything, and the having of a tea party (we had to borrow electric kettles and make no-bake cookies), we've all been watching Doctor Who pretty much continuously. Namely, the second half of season five (to catch Kate up); and the Christmas special (to catch Kate and Anna up). Shaaark! Next up: all of season six so far.
Aaand we may just all skip convocation today--it's raining and wouldn't be very pleasant in the amphitheater--and have a lesbian movie marathon. I am deeply appreciative of my friends' taste, and am happy to be back on campus with Everyone Ever (except all those people who graduated and left), but am getting kind of eye-achy from watching laptop screens so much. Maybe we can purloin the TV room.
Actual productive-on-classes things done: very very few. I figured out this morning that the western-encounters-in-Afghanistan class (which starts with Alexander the Great) at Smith won't actually work because the buses would conflict with things I'm already taking. Which means I will probably be taking a history class on the Italian Renaissance as seen from the perspective of the populace, which is at MHC and therefore much easier to get to. Figuring out my class schedule: definitely progress. Of course, I have bought precisely zero textbooks so far... ah well.
Off to get dressed so I can go eat breakfast. At least the weather's cooled off. I could almost believe it's September now.