I pull my shirt on, walk out the door. Drag my feet along the floor.

Lyrics to "Campus" by Vampire Weekend because that's where I am!! (In a campus that is.)

I'm eagerly (somewhat) anticipating the first day of classes. My first class (no lie- Arabic Film and Lit.) I have zero idea what we're going to be doing. My second class, Dissent in America (very intellectual sounding right?) has LOADS of reading homework so I hope it's a fun (interesting) class! And then I have my....wait for it... 4 hour long drawing class!

Who said that was allowed?

I'm freakin, it's like my first day of kindergarten or something. I spent all night last night (actually) labeling my folders and highlighting my schedule. Cool right? And then I could NOT sleep all night long, I kept tossing and turning and all that and my bed is mad squeaky so that just kept me up more. I legit probably got one hour of actually sleep. And I BETTER not fall asleep on the first day of classes (or I'm coming after that mattress provider!)

So I'll let ya'll know how the first day went... if i'm still alive! (500 drawings. That's my first assignment for my drawing class = no living allowed.)

'Cause I ain't the way you found me, and I'll never be the same!

That's what I woke up to this morning! (You Make My Dreams Come True by Hall & Oates)

Right now I am waiting for Catherine (my roomie) to shower so we can go to breakfast!

baaah everything is so exciting and new and I can't get over that I'm finally here. Yesterday morning it seemed impossible what with the RIDICULOUS amount of packing (I filled 2 rolling move-in carts you guys. what?) and the fact that the Verizon guy came to fix our phones RIGHT as we were about to pull out of the driveway (making me 2 hours behind everyone else on the packing front). But now that I'm finally here and all set up, I'm starting to believe it (if you believe in college clap your hands!) I'm here Temple and watch out!

Aside from the enthusiasm, I have realized a few flaws in my careful planning. Number one, I ordered a micro-fridge (an energy safe microwave on top of a fridge? or just a really small fridge) and so did my suite mates (I have 3 roommates: Catherine, Nina, and Emily) and there's really only room for one in our small small common space.  Hint: it's smaller than this!

So we're getting one sent back. But that's okay because we really DON'T need that much fridge space and we should conserve on space anyway!

After that whole fiasco I managed to jam all of my clothes into a waaay too small space (my sweaters will never forgive me!) 

We had our wing meeting (north west woopwoop!) and I my interesting fact that we needed to introduce ourselves was this: I am an airhockey champion. Now this is not necessarily true I've never won like a tournament or anything, but I do like air hockey and I win at it! And apparently everyone and there mother heard that because several people came up to me saying: you're the girl who likes air hockey right? And when the R.A. announced that our floor game room does not have an air hockey table, everyone in the circle looked at me and awww-ed.

Now that I'm the air hockey girl FORever, I should probs start practicing my strategy (she shoots! she scoooores!) 

So we're going to break fast now. But I will talk more about my college needs and necessities upon return! 

I love ya, tomorrow!

 

THIS IS IT! I go to college in officially 24 hours!

And, I am totally not packed. But don't tell anyone that!

I know this sounds dumb, but I have everything packed but my clothes.

Anyway, so much s went down yesterday and I just HAVE to talk about it. I know, I know, I didn't post yesterday, and I know that all none of you who read this are sorely disappointed but I was busy (?) p.s. this is how tired I am, I just noticed that I'm eating my cereal with a giant

 salad spoon. classy with a k!

SO yesterday the refrigerator repairman came over to fix our ice maker. Not only had the ice maker already fixed itself when he got here, but as soon as he entered my kitchen he grabbed a serrated knife (should I be worried?) Now my mom was at work so I had to deal with this monstrosity all by myself! After confirming that the freezer was, in fact, NOT broken, he proceeded to vacuum under the refrigerator (weird choice) and than asked for one hundred and twenty eight dollars... and forty five cents. So I paid him just to get that creeper out of the house! Following that excursion, I went to crepes with Sabrina! That was fun, except eating a savory crepe (portabello mushrooms, feta,onion, and spinach!) made me really want a sweet one! Then I rode my bike home to discover that my mom wanted to get rid of it (my bike)! It turned out that good old ScottHumphreys (my bike again) is only worth $10 to the bikery so my friend is saved from alternate ownership! On the extra-plus side, I got a new bike for college for fity dollahs! It's a small, red, racing bike. The ride home was difficult because I'm not yet used to riding a woman's bike (Scott Humphrey's WAS a man's) that wasn't too big for me (like Scotty). So I kept feeling like I was going to fall off or break it.

 On the one hand, I didn't. So that's good. But on the other, I could. In the future.

Back to the good stuff, last night my parents had a kind of going to college party for me (with Their friends?) They even bought ice cream (big deal!) But as sweet as those "adults" are, we all know how boring those kind of things get (kidding dad). So we ended up acting silly, evidence below:

 

They don't like people like me where I'm from.

Wowee-zowee... I'm all tuckered after a heavy night of goodbyes!

Tonight I went to a sort of going away to college hang out session held on the front steps of my friend EShake's house (called the "stoop

") That's us in the pictures (cred EShakes, I'm the one that looks dumb in the middle!) I realized that this is the last time for a while that I will see a lot of these people and probably the very last time I'm going to hang out with them intimately like that. It's not like 

it's hard or anything, it's just weird this transitional funk I'm in, well I guess every one's in it together but it always seems to me like everyone else knows what they're doing way more than I do. Maybe they're just better at acting like they have a clue, I don't know.  

Oh! To the point of the title, the crux of t

his post, I watched Adventureland today! (The title is from the beginning of the movie where James is explaining to his college friend how he doesn't fit in at home, and I thought it was really funny!) Oh I liked it fine (first I should say I still have a half hour left to finish... possibly the most vital plot peak of most movies) but it surprised me in an unexpected way. I saw that it was directed by the director of Superbad and I was so psyched because it's the best, fun

niest, cutest, grossest teenage adventure movie of all time! That movie is the complete ultimate for me because it has typical guy humor (which I just think is the best... okay who can say no to Seth's drawings? everyone has favorites! mine are the historical ones, especially the on

e with the penis in front  of a tank, being driven by another one... in Tienanmen Square.) Anyways, all private drawings aside, it is a legitimately genuine portrait of male friendship at a crucial transition in the character's

 lives. Which is why I basically cry at the end where they separate off on an

 escalator, to 2 separate colleges and futures. That's what's touching!

So I was expecting the awkward and honest humor, the feel-bad-for-them-because-my-life-sucks-in-a-uniquely-horrible-way shame giggles (which are great by the way), but not the serious bend towards the end where Em (Kristen Stewart) all of a sudden feels bad for having an affair with t

he married and much older maintenance man Ryan Reynolds after having gone along just swimmingly for quite some time. We are lead to believe that it's James' sweetness that kind of nudges her off the fence of guilt into I-feel-like-crap-for-that land (which she does very well!) I don't know though, James is very earnest, but affa

ir ending sweetness? I don't really pick that up. His awkward cuteness is a little too laid back, less neurotic, more stoned (they do smoke a lot in the movie!). Anyway we will see what transpires! Will Em end up with James? Will Ryan Reynolds get a kick in the pants? Will the high staff of Adventureland finally kill someone? Who knows? Anything is possible. Anyone can achieve greatness!

Oh ho! You don't think I would let you off that easy do you? Two other notables happened today: I went to Zumba at the Y downtown! It's a Latin and hip-hop inspired dance exercise class that's more fun than workout although you DO get very sweaty! It was fun and the class tonight was very rigorous and enjoyable and afterwards we found out that it was the teacher's very first class (tres magnifique!) 

Second: my little sister (not that little... she's 16) made a blog today! It's one of my favorites and it's real funny (I think)! She made it to keep up with me about her doings and make me laugh in college (vital!) She keeps it with her friend under the name "Jesus" so it's only a little bit blasphemous but don't read it if you don't like blatant references to cursing or rap music or Pinocchio for that matter!

So read her blog, and read my blog, and read books that make you think!

Welcome to the World!

Hello there! This is my very first post and I'm doing it on my new (for me) computer for COLLEGE.

so exciting! Recently I've been shopping and getting ready for school, you know getting art supplies and general useful things, and there are SO many things you wouldn't remember that you need until you needed them. Like, a stapler?! I need my own stapler?! Who came up with that idea?

Oh today one of my dearest, best, and most favorite friends left for Florence. I know it's 

going to be the best years of her life... and she'll have a never ending cycle of Italian boyfriends and wonderful parties but I just can't understand why I can't come!

So me and my other friend made her a going away t-shirt where it's us standing on a globe (in America) and she's on the other side (Italy). And I'm all the way on the left (in Philadelphia! holla!) sort of jumping off into the atmosphere (like a rocket to the moon!). It says on the bottom "We are intrepid. We carry on." Which is from an all-time favorite movie of ours Elizabethtown. Where Kirsten Dunst is this super chatty flight attendant on Orlando Bloom's flight to Kentucky for his dad's funeral, and during the in-flight conversation she figures out his dad is dead (even though he doesn't tell her) and while he's leaving she's giving him all kinds of pesky last minute advice (in a cute way) about the roads in that area and stuff. And then to inspire him to persevere or whatever she says: We are intrepid. We carry on. And it's funny because it's weirdly intimate and she doesn't know him and he's trying to leav

e. But it's also, you know, we will be friends from across the world! (that's us in the picture wearing the shirts! credit: sabeana!)

It's a great movie though, funny, and sad, and there's love in it! It's a Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous anyone?)!

Oh also we bedazzled my big denim jacket. I found it in the crossover (the passageway ba

ckstage between stage left and right) at the little theatre (I did theatre at my high school... what? so did lots of cool and eventually successful people did!) ages ago. It was part of some one's costume 2 shows ago and smelled like Axe and weed but I washed it twelve times and it's been mine ever since! we bedazzled the front and back with clear and pink rhinestones and silver studs and it's ostentatiously sexcellent! 

Alright! That's the news from me and mine! See you in college!  :{o  (that's a mustache face if you've never seen one.)