Month: August 2010

Since my 1-2 week hiatus from blogging after the ending of Bri 2.0 failed like I did at my first day of Spanish, I guess I should start getting back on schedule. From now on, Monday and Friday will be my blogging days (even though today is Tuesday), Tuesday will be my TheAdamCastles day (even though I posted mine a few days ago), Thursday will be my main channel video day, and Sunday will be Eugenia. Continue reading “Your [one day late] regularly scheduled blog” →

Two posts in less than an hour?!? I know. It’s crazy. But I just have SO MUCH I want to share! For Gavin’s sake, I wanted to take inventory of all the nerdy things I have in my room, just so, you know, I can be quick to refer people here when they ask. (Because so many people ask. *sarcasm*) Continue reading “Seriously, don’t get used to this” →

This was going to be a tweet, but I didn’t want to try and shorten the story, so I’m making you a quick blog.

So Gavin, my neighbor I think I mentioned earlier this week, came into my room about ten minutes ago. I was sipping some Via coffee I made with Ellen and starting to clean off my already messy desk when his head appeared in my doorway. Continue reading “Dang I’m good” →

I swear, this blogging all the time thing is probably not going to be a pattern. But I’m gonna be up for a little while longer setting up some stuff in my planner and I thought I’d tell you about my day, because it’s mind blowing.

I woke up around 7 to the sound of Boys Like Girls’ “The Great Escape” blaring from somewhere outside my window. I was meeting the two girls from my trip, Maya and Ellen, for breakfast, so I got up and got ready. We ate a delicious carb-filled breakfast and proceeded to walk around campus.

During the next couple hours I got my official ID card, my work study packet, my mailbox and key, and a package of towels and Midol from home. Then orientation started. That was kind of useless and lame, but whatever. I got out of it fast.

Then I had my first official college class, Freshman Year Seminar, or FYS. It was mostly an intro class and then we talked for a little while about Eating Animals, and I decided that I dislike the football players greatly. But I found it interesting that four our of five of them want to major in history. What?

Then I met Ellen, Ellen’s roommate Ashley, Maya, and Ryan for an orientation dinner thing, which was actually pretty good. There were some sort of vegetarian burgers that I quite enjoyed. Then I made a friend, Jake, who is in my “Pod”, which is basically a little group of freshman led by two upperclassmen to journey through orientation together. We both agreed that Pods are sort of stupid and school spirit isn’t our thing.

After this, there was an improv comedy performance in the theater, so I met up with Maya, Ellen, and Ryan again to go watch that. It turned out to be really funny, and I was glad I went. Then we met up with Conner, our final fellow Voyager, and Ryan’s roommate Dustin, to go find the awesome ice cream place the two girls and I found the night before.

Unfortunately, it turned out that the ice cream place had closed about forty five minutes before, so we instead went to this billiards place to eat bad pizza and play really bad pool. I made one really good shot, but everything else I did was crap. (Sorry Conner) It was here that I came up with three goals for the school year: get better at pool, get better at frisbee, pick what I want to major in. I think I can do it.

Tomorrow I’m going to get up at 6:10 to work out with Ellen and then meet up with Maya to grab our first breakfast in the actual cafeteria.

I already have a group of friends to go play pool with. Whaaaaaat.

So remember that one time when I said I wasn’t going to blog for at least a week and that was last Thursday and now it’s the next Wednesday? Well, either way, BLOG! Continue reading “I just can’t stay away [The screw tents version]” →

I know I’m not supposed to be blogging for a week or so, but I really had to talk about this somewhere. So I just moved into the dorms and tonight is my first night sleeping in them. I opted out of taking a shower at the hotel where my mom is tonight (she drives home tomorrow morning) because, as I said, “I have to get used to communal showers sometime.”

I’ve lived in dorms for periods of time before. I can do communal bathrooms. No biggie. But apparently, my college doesn’t believe in privacy, or even simple conveniences. Which kind of sucks.

You know how showers have the shower part of them, then that little room right outside where you can change and keep your stuff dry? Yeah, Pacific University doesn’t have that. So you have to pile your clothes outside of the shower, in addition to all of your other crap besides soap (which they have a place for in the actual shower), and then awkwardly reach around the curtain to retrieve them as needed.

This is not gonna work out very well. It was awkward when I was alone in the bathroom. I’m a little bit afraid of what will happen when there are fifteen other girls.

Also, my room is about as far away from the girl’s bathroom as possible. Seriously, I have to walk halfway around the building. I might just start using the boy’s bathroom.