I liked the movie, though. I saw it on a rear-projection inflatable screen (indoors, mind you) so perhaps my viewing was a bit off, but in the beginning it’s like - whoa, time warp. They actually filmed the shots (and I think lit the scenes as well) accurate to the time period the movie’s set in. So the framing is very different than folks now are used to. Once the action picks up they go modern on that front, but I really liked that. Kinda tosses you back into the previous movies. So yeah, in the first ten minutes there’s a car race, shooting, unbelieveable physics (literally), Russians, a hot dangerous chick who keeps forgetting what accent she’s supposed to have, car crashes, double agents, and a nuclear blast. I was totally happy with the movie before we even learned the plot. :D So yeah, totally awesome movie. EXPLOSIONS. CAR CHASES. KILLER ANTS. BULLETS NEVER HIT THE GOOD GUYS. Pretty much all a movie needs to make me happy.

Aaaand now I feel better about having a bajillion pairs of shoes. :D

I finally ventured into town today. Turns out town is not so exciting. Also I finished shopping at 1 and got back here at 3:30. Yay public transportation. So yeah, now I’m all tired and soaked from the freaking hurricane. Every day here so far I’ve ended up soaked, usually in my own sweat. But hey! I have warm dry socks and I got new shoes. My old pair are pretty beat-up and they’ve been giving me blisters, so I went to pick up a new pair from Payless. They were having a sale, so I ended up getting a pair of like, slipper-sneakers. These sneakers, whatever, I don’t know what to call them - they are the most comfortable shoes I have ever put on my feet in my entire life. Wearing them is like, sheer joy. How can my feet feel this good? I didn’t think it was allowed. I can even wiggle my bad toe around without hurting it. Damn I love these shoes. The nice pair I got is another leather pair, but with a bit of a heel, about an inch, maybe inch and a half. They have good tread, easy to get on and off, and cute too. So now I have nice shoes, gym shoes, insanely comfortable shoes, and hiking boots. And at home I have jazz slippers, hunting boots, and white dress shoes. When the heck did I turn into a girl.

I think my allergies are finally letting up. I’ve been taking meds pretty much every morning, except for weekends (I want my system to actually get used to the crap, I just hate dripping out the nose during class) but today I’m finally okay. The mall hit me bad, I was sneezing all over the place, but on school grounds I’m fine. Finally. I got some more meds just in case - oddly, the Tylenol Sinus PM does not make me sleepy, but the regular antihistamines do. Also tissues. Tissues are important.
P.S. I want argyle knee socks. I love argyle. Speaking of which, I should update my Amazon wishlist.

The quiet hours here are 10-10, and the kids seem to actually stick to that. So I didn’t need to sleep with earplugs in after all. XD

My allergies are killing me. Not literally, but man. So miserable. I tried a new medication this morning, but it put me to sleep. Spent most of the afternoon napping and I still feel awful. And I don’t have any tissues at all. D: I really need to get into town this weekend.

Feeling some loose anxiety and guilt. Not sure why. Kinda miserable and lonely. I decided not to do the EMT thing. Calculus is already worrying me. Speaking of which - Dad, I can’t find my syllabus, and it’s not online where the teacher said it would be. So I’ll get back to you on what we’re covering. Right now it’s Trig, and I have an appointment at the tutoring center tomorrow so I can fingure this stuff out. I think Friday we get into the actual calculus. Well, let’s see - the chapters are called Limits and Continuity, The Derivative, Curve Sketching and Optimization, Integration, Integration Applications, Exponential and Logarithmic Functions, Techniques of Integration, and Infinite Series. I get the impression I’m going to be spending a lot of time in tutoring. Looking at the book is like trying to read something in German. Some parts of it look familiar, but they do not mean what I think they mean, and most of it is gibberish.

Yay Lisette is depressed again no one saw this coming huh

Gimme two days and I’ll be over it. I hate my brain.

Hilariously, I have earplugs in AND am listening to music on my headphones. Two rooms over is having a party, see. Fucking parties. Why anyone would ever find that fun is beyond me. Anyway, their music is shit and their window is open, and I’m not going to ruin my chances at a breeze by closing my own window, so earplugs it is. These are such great earplugs, I’m so glad Uncle G got them for me. :D They totally block out the music, even the heavy bass, and they don’t hurt at all. I can sleep in them - I tested that during orientation, just for the heck of it. And I know from my old work that they don’t hurt over the long term, unlike the plasticky-smooth ones.

So anyway, the EMS meeting was today. I got an application packet, a tour, and I have to decide before Friday if I really want to do this. It would really be tossing me in at the deep end - I’d need to buy half the uniform, and go down and teach myself where everything is. I’d be working a shift starting next week, riding along as a third pair of hands on calls. There’s no specific hours I’d have to work, no minimum or whatever, it’s just whenever I have the time. But still. Damn steep learning curve. Everyone seems really nice, though, the kind of people that actually will help out if you need to learn the names of things. Gonna have to think about it a lot more.

Started sucking up to the Archery teacher - she already said I can come in early and practice, and I helped her put everything away after class. I’m really bored Tuesdays and Thursdays, so that’ll be nice. It’s so weird - trying to find a balance between overloading myself and being bored out of my skull. That reminds me, I need to send Dad an email. Will do that now.

Hmm. A cup of tea was exactly what I needed this morning. I had to buy a mug to get it, but them’s the breaks. :D I have a list of things I should get next month when I go home for an extended weekend. Seriously, a four-day break, two of them on the weekend? Ridiculous.

This morning I woke up at 4am with the certainty that something bad was going down and I needed to be conscious for it. Heard a guy make a noise, and then the unmistakable clatter of a dowel or small piece of wood being dropped. Stuck my head out a half hour later (what, I’m not stupid) and discovered that some asshat took a chair from the communal lounge, broke it into pieces, and then lovingly deposited said pieces all through our hall. And wiped all the whiteboards. Stay classy, college guys. So my response was to eye the scene for a minute, then decide to take a shower. What, it was 4am, best time for a shower. I actually relaxed enough to get clean for once. Need to take more 4am showers.

Soooo booooored. I’ve been trying to stretch out my homework - I already did the worksheet that’s due Thursday, and now I’m gonna find an article and summarize it for class Friday. Considering doing some of the Math stuff that hasn’t been assigned yet. Or maybe skip ahead in Bio.

Working on a story - still just researching, trying to give the characters depth before I get bored of the whole thing. My brain is fickle. But basically in the course of researching for this whole apocalyptic scenario, I decided on the bird flu as the means of our destruction. Now, you may laugh, haha bird flu who’s worried about that, but shit man. Sometime in the next few years we are all gonna be toast from that. I’m not even making anything up for this story - heck, I’m not even assuming worst-case-scenario. I mean, in one or two things I might stretch it a bit, but 99% of this is gonna be as accurate as I can get it. I hope I can keep my attention on it long enough to actually get the thing written. It’s fabulously epic and doomy and all that lovely stuff. I have to do a lot more research before I can actually start writing, though.

It is official! I withdrew from Chem class and picked up Archery instead.  It only goes half the semester but dude who cares it’s freaking archery. I’m very enthused about it, and I met yet another person! So far I am friends with like, three people. Which is fabulous. And I’m already recognizing random people around campus, and everyone is nice, which is weird.

So yeah, not that much going on for me, really. Today is a nice lazy day. Got up bright and early for Bio lab, which apparently they do not expect to take nearly as long as it’s scheduled to. We were let out after an hour but it’s scheduled for almost three. Then I have Archery, and at 5 tonight I have Information Literacy which sounds useless but fun. I like the teacher. So now I am happy! I can go to bed early and get up early and feel great and awake and not die. I wanted to take Rock Wall Climbing or Recreational Shooting too, but they’re full up. Sigh. Maybe next semester. I’m really happy with Archery, though. We learned how to assemble our bows and checked dominant eye, arm length, and pull weight. I’m apparently right eyed, 28″ and 25 lbs. Perfectly average. I tried the 30 lbs bow, but it was way too much, like trying to shoot a shotgun. Shotguns are so awkward. I’ve never gotten bruised from one, though. OKAY SEGUE

I actually have way more free time than I expected. I do have homework, though! It’s weird, how excited I am at the thought of doing my homework. I’ll do it in a minute here. But I have trouble filling up the rest of my free time. I’ll probably start doing the gym after Archery, and the rest of my classes have a long enough break between that I can fit in some homework, but mostly I’m catching up on TV. I stick my head into the room across the hall sometimes - Katie and Barbara are really nice and also really strange. Katie is a hippy vegetarian addicted to texting, and Barbara is a religious musician from Camden who always speaks her mind. Whatever is on her mind. It’s so random. :D

Whoa. I just ordered Chinese food all by myself, of my own free will, and I didn’t panic. Much. I mean I was nervous but I didn’t hyperventilate like I usually do. Maybe all this breaking out of the shell stuff is doing me some good.

I’m going to drop out of my chem class tomorrow. I’m not going to be a Chem major anymay, seriously, and dude I am so fucking tired of night classes after a long day to be followed by an early morning. The professor was wonderful, but my brain was so off that I couldn’t even figure out if toasting bread was a chemical or physical reaction. Christ, I know burning things is a chemical reaction. Ah well. In the morning I’ll see if I can get into a different Chem or what.

And now that I am full of tasty, tasty Chinese food, I go to bed. (Actually the food was pretty lame, I’m so not ordering from them again. For my Mu Shu pancakes, they gave me a stale package of spring roll wrappers. Yeah, that’s totally the same thing.)

Ha! I thought I had Chem tonight, but it turns out I don’t. I was not the only one that thought this. I will now tell you the epic ballad of Chem Class.

…Okay so the ballad format isn’t going to work. But basically when I first got my schedule, Chem class was the oddball. Most classes are three short lectures and a seperately-scheduled lab, but this class is two three-hour blocks of lab/lecture. On top of that, they’re in seperate classrooms. The original schedule claimed there were also different teachers. My current printout, from like two days ago, says I have a Williams for both. Phew, right? Well the email that says I have no Chem class today was sent by a Moreland. And indeed there was no class. So I guess we’ll see what happens. Yay, more time to watch Supernatural! :D

There was an Involvement Fair today, where various school groups and local folks offered volunteer, intern, and job stuff. I stopped by the Campus Safety booth and found out that any student can work for them - I thought it was just Criminal Justice majors! But they also require a two-week course in August, so uh. Yeah, not happening this year. And then I noticed some firemen! So I wandered over to find out what they’re doing at a college involvement fair, and it turns out they’re doing a mostly-online EMT class. I talked with them for a bit, and I ended up signing up to hear more about the class. He said they meet the first Friday of every month, so I don’t know if I can at all, but I hope I can! EMTs are way more interesting than Lambda Lambda Lambda or whatever. And if I do decide to switch to forestry for a major, I need to be EMT-certified to be a ranger. I also need to be able to be a police officer, but that’s what the gym is for. :D I’m excited! Nervous as hell, but I’m determined to crawl out of my shell and do some good. Good for myself and for the people around me. They said something about giving me a CPR course and then tossing me into an ambulance to basically hand the EMTs backboards and stuff, which makes me kinda panic, but I can see why they’d want to give you a trial by fire. If you can’t handle that much, you don’t belong at all. So yeah, wow, big things happening. I went out to the fair determined to sign up for something, but I was figuring it’d be like, the frisbee club or something. I’m really proud of myself for even taking the first step towards something so intimidating and awesome.

Oh man! I almost won some stuff in Bingo tonight. I was two damn numbers away from getting a 42″ TV. Damn. I sat at a table full of guys, which once again affirmed that I am way, way more comfortable and happy being one of the guys than trying desperately to fit in with the girls. I just suck at making friends with guys, other than the really annoying nerdy type that no one likes because they can’t shut up.

Today I was reading Tailchaser’s Song and I was overcome with the need to nap in the nice sunlight (for once, a south-facing room!) and so I did. It was lovely. And later tonight I get to see Iron Man! I’m very excited, even if it will keep me up past my bedtime. I’m actually thinking I might have to drop a class. This late Chem class is gonna kill me. I thought I was done with night classes after a long day, you know? We’ll see. I’ll give it a week or so. I have until the 3rd to switch classes, and until October 24th to withdraw. Plenty of time to see if it’ll work or not.

So. Here I am. Finally got the Internet working. It’s really nice here, although insanely hot. I think I made two friends - one’s a communter, and one’s in another dorm, but that’s fine. There’s about 50 girls on my floor, which is kinda insane, and I can’t buy stamps around here. I’ll need to find out if I can bus to a post office. And a grocery store - I want yogurt for my fridge. :)

I do have a single, and it’s enormous and empty and lonely. I’m thinking of saving up for a futon and then bullying people into visiting me. But anyway… I’m pretty tired, and my allergies are still getting to me, and they feed us too much. Seriously! But I was right, breakfast had giant mountains of scrambled eggs. Mmmm. They have a lot of salad and fruit as well, although I suspect the fruit will disappear soon.

My phone barely gets any service here. Sigh. So I will send out emails to everyone now, let them know I’m alive and what my mailing address is.