My first class is today, Astronomy at 4:00. I’m kind of excited for it, but after I started looking at the course outline for one of my other courses and saw I have to do an annotated bibliography worth 25% of my mark, well… not so excited anymore. Anyway, I still need something to occupy myself with for the next… five hours! Looks like this could be a long blog. :P
So, day three, I got up at about nine and did all the regular morning stuff. Had Froot Loops for breakfast, which were good, and chocolate milk in a carton, which was bad. I’m very particular about my chocolate milk. Nesquik only. I’ve got a can of it in my room, but no milk. I’ll be going home or at least shopping with my parents on Tuesday since I don’t have any classes and I forgot a lot of things.
For one, I didn’t account for the fact that I like to be on the computer a lot and at home I was fortunate enough to have a soft, comfortable chair. This one… not so much. So it looks like I’ll be needing to get another one of those.
Also, as mentioned, showering is weird. I’d like to be out of there as quick as I can, and when you need to get dressed and undressed, it takes up a lot of time. Thus, that is why we have the bath robe. This one is a bit specific to me, but an extra glasses case also would’ve come in handy, so I have somewhere to put my glasses while I shower.
I wasn’t entirely sure coming into residence whether I would have a closet or a drawer, and so I didn’t bother to get any hangers. I did however buy a shelf that hangs from a closet and that holds clothes… but apparently, not that many. It broke. The first day. Before all my clothes were in it. Yeah. And although I have both a desk with drawers and a closet, the drawers won’t work either. The “glide” on the middle one is broken (that’s what that thing is that’s on the inside of the desk is that the drawer slides onto… see, I’ve already learned something at university!) so until it’s fixed, there’s not much sense in putting stuff in there if I can’t get it out.
My watch broke just before I left for university. Batteries completely died, and watch batteries just aren’t something I have lying around the house. Having a wristwatch would sure beat carrying my alarm clock around in my purse.
There was one thing that most people bring that I said “screw it, I don’t need that”, but I’ve been beginning to think that I do. A TV. I don’t watch TV, other than “Lost”, so why should I pay for this big box if I’m never gonna use it? I never really realized how nice it was to be able to go downstairs or to go see my brother or to just leave my room back when I was at home. And if I ever left my room, there was always a TV there. Something else to do when I just can’t figure out how to get the Battleship AI working right and I don’t want to look at another line of Java as long as I live. But now where can I go? The common room? Sit down and stair at the other chairs? Don’t think so.
I’m planning on doing my own laundry, even though I always figured I’d just bring it home to me. For one, I don’t want to be lugging that around with me on the Greyhound bus, and then the local bus I take to get home. I’d also kind of like to take responsibility for my own self; I’m not a little baby. I brought enough pants and shirts so that I wouldn’t have to do laundry for at least two or three weeks… but not enough socks. And I don’t really want to have to go down to the laundry every week just to do a load of socks. Nuh uh. Speaking of laundry, I knew I was supposed to bring quarters, but for some reason figured I’d be okay without them.
Anyway, yesterday was fairly unexciting. I had breakfast then headed outside to the vendor fair at ten to ten, which was before it was to open. The day before, the line to get a bus pass sticker for your student card had wound around the whole courtyard, and I really didn’t feel like waiting two hours for this thing. I was in luck though; there were already people there, but only about six or so in front of me. I got my card in about five minutes, but by that time, the line had already grown quite a bit. I skipped merrily on my way in search of the Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, where I would be going at two for my faculty orientation. I knew what the theatre looked like, and I knew the general direction (to the left of the tower!), but figured I might find the way there now so I didn’t get lost later.
Turned out to not do much good. At two o’clock, I came back and noticed there wasn’t really anyone there. I asked a woman at the desk and she told me to go to room 325 and gave me directions. I found my way there mostly, and ran into a girl named Dominique there, who said the woman had told her to follow me. Together, we found the room and sat down together.
The presentation was not that interesting. They told us who the professors were and what the classes were about and about some graduates of the program. The coolest thing though was that they gave away free textbooks for most of the classes. There was only one for computer science, and the winning seat was the row in front of me, but there were two people in com sci closer to the seat than I was, and they had to do rock paper scissors for it.
They also gave away bags of prizes to people, one went to a person whose birthday it was and another to the person who came the farthest to get to Brock. Dominique’s hand shot up. The professor asked where she came from and she says “New Zealand” and everyone was like “whoooooa!”. So yeah, she won that prize. There was another one depending on whoever was the closest to a certain object and it was very close between two guys. The guy giving the demonstration picked one of them and the other guy was kind of upset I guess, so the professor dug into the bag, seemingly to split the prize between the two, and was like “here, have a candy” and threw a little piece of candy at him.
I hung out in my room for most of the day until the don came by to ask if I wanted to sign-up for Shinerama, which is a charity event they’re doing this weekend, so I said sure. Then we talked a bit about music and it turns out she has good taste, unlike most people. :P Later on she came by and asked if I was going to the sex comedy show which was with a comedienne (god, I hate that word) named River Huston, which is a pretty awesome name. I wasn’t really planning on going, but since she asked, I said sure, and we went to get some other people from our house to go. Most people said they were going to the later show or were going to wait to leave, but Stephanie told us the seats fill up quickly and I heard that people weren’t even able to get in. We ended up going with two girls from downstairs, Amanda and Jacklyn I think, and we left early, so we were fine with getting seats.
The show was pretty good with some very funny parts. At the beginning, she was throwing prizes out into the audience for people who could stand up and answer questions correctly or sing “Big Got Back” and various other things like that. At one point she said “okay, this prize goes to the first person who stands up and yells out ‘yes’, okay? …who masturbated today?!” then there was silence for a split second and a guy on the other side of the theatre stands up and yells out “YESSSS!” and everyone is LTFAO. She says that she usually has to preface her act with “this act contains very frank and honest discussion of sexuality” type of stuff, but “it looks like I don’t need to do that with this crowd”. There was also another section where she was going to demonstrate what it was like to have safe sex when drunk, so she takes a couple from the audience and she gives the guy a condom and the girl a penis that’s about as long as her arm, and then they have to attempt to get the condom on.
At the end, it started turning more serious, where she talked about alcohol and being raped and having HIV, and hopefully it had some impact on people, but I don’t believe that most people are open to listening to that kind of thing, even if it is coming from a grown-up who’s funny and cool, just because they are too set in their own ways to want to change. But hey, you never know.
I then went back to my room and really wanted to go for supper, but figured everyone would be there since the show started at five thirty and went to seven or so. Not sure if that was true or not, but when I went back later there was hardly anyone there. I had pepperoni pizza, which I liked much better than the cheese pizza I usually have here. I didn’t get a drink and instead had my cream soda that I had at lunch when I got back to my room. Conserving resources, ah yes. I don’t think I have to worry too much about that, because I don’t eat that much anyway. Just for the first month, I guess, I’ll be more conservative, and then see what my balance is at the end and adjust accordingly.
Back to my room again, chatted with mom and established that I’d come home on Tuesday, since I don’t have any classes. That way I can get my watch and things, because I don’t want to keep going on like this without one. Had a shower at about eleven, eleven thirty. They’re getting better, I’m getting into a routine, I’m figuring it out. All will be well soon enough.