1) There are some stupid people here. Why do they go to USC, let alone college? I'd like to know.
2) Remember how the grass smelled awful because of the fertilizer the school put on it the week before we left for Christmas? Now it's very green, and a bit longer, but not very thick. I give it two weeks at the most before it's dead again.
3) The construction never dies.
I had plenty of time to make these observations today, as today was full of me running around all over the place. Quite literally.
I woke up fairly early and actually made it down to the dungeon gym. After I got cleaned up and got food, I left the dorm (1) to go straight to the bookstore. Got my books and school supplies, then went straight to DPS (though I took the long way) to ask them what I should do about my bike tire that got stolen.
And thus begins the fiasco known as "Rachel tries to fix her bike." Turns out, the DPS officers have a collection of front tires from people who got all but their front tire stolen. They're also super nice, and said if I came back with the bike information that would help me find a tire, they'd let me look through it and see if any of those tires would work for my bike. Awesome sauce.
So I went back to the dorm to drop off the bookstore stuff, get my bike information, and say hi to Jinny because she's back!!!! I'm very happy to see her. I've missed her!!!
So I left the dorm again (2) to try to bring a package to the mail stop so I could send a textbook to Amazon, but it was closed, so I came back to drop it off. Left again (3), but this time to go to CVS to pick up some more stuff I needed. I got a bag to carry it all in, but it ended up getting quite a few rips so I was struggling to carry it when I was in the library picking up tons of plays as well as Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Turns out library people are just as nice as the DPS people. They searched around quite a lot for me in order to find the Lord of the Rings book!!
Because of all the books I had and the fail of a CVS bag, I went back to the dorm to drop the stuff off. Left again to get lunch (4) and then walked back to DPS, now with bike information, to get a tire. Found a tire I thought looked just right, but then through a conversation via text message with my dad, I found out it was missing some parts. He did some research into it while I went upstairs and got the dorm cleaned up a bit. He found out what was missing, so I left to go back to DPS with the tire (5). The same officers were there, and they helped me take the part I needed off of another abandoned tire. So, mission success, right? I put the tire on the bike, and felt pretty gosh darn awesome. So I went upstairs to get my bike pump, and came back out to pump the tire up.
Guess what? I thought I'd fixed my tire (almost) on my own and for free, but the tire's too small. The brake got in the way.
AAHHH!!!!
So I locked the bike up and brought the pump back upstairs. I'm going to continue fixing it tomorrow.
Since then, I haven't really left the dorm building. Thank goodness. I counted 5 times leaving the building just now, but in between there were a couple coming ins and going outs that were very quick because I was talking to my dad and trying to fix my bike. I came in and out so many times that the guy working the finger print station at the front door recognized me enough to let me in without making me finger print. I obviously live here.
So I've been getting the dorm room a little more cleaned up, and getting ready for tomorrow and all, which is nice. What was nicer was watching the Golden Globes and ordering in dinner with Jinny, Sneha, Kieryn, Nina, Kate, and my new friend who's Kate's new roommate and I don't know how to spell her name yet.... don't judge me. I'm sorry. I'll learn it soon! We had fun though, and I'm very, very happy that Frozen won best animated feature. It should've won best original song too, but oh well. That's what the Oscar's are for, right?
Since that ended, I've been working at getting audition material prepared for auditions coming up this week. It's paid off though- I've got my work cut out for me as far as what I need to prepare and what I need to read and what I need to practice. Now it's just making sure I do all that work. I have plenty of time tomorrow, so that's what I'll be doing when I'm not continuing the bike fiasco. Oy vey.
Oh, and that's right. Classes start tomorrow for second semester. Haha... I hope I'm ready for those.
On the bright side, I bought Lord of the Rings posters for my room. One of them looks like this:
It's my four favorite characters. And Pippin is front and center. And there's Elvish surrounding it. So. Flipping. Excited. Plus, it was only $3. Score.
I should probably sleep.... it's been a long day and I really am tired. Plus there's classes tomorrow and all.
Wish me luck! And Fight on, friends.
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