Technically I probably should've just jammed this in on the end of the introduction post, but oh well. I figured that'd be a little too lazy and decided to make it a second post instead.
Moving in wasn't bad. Dad stayed behind to help heave those enormous luggage bags (one actual luggage bags, plus backpack, laptop bag, and two big black trash bags) out of the car and up the stairs to the 2nd floor, but I had to unpack mostly on my own, which was okay. Got the laptop and everything set up; internet works good, and phone has good service in the room, which means I can at least be in contact with Mom and Dad if I need to. Oddly, my DS doesn't want to connect to the school's wi-fi and claims there's no access points in range. I wonder why that is.
Roommate didn't show up until pretty late, which was fine by me--unpacking and setting stuff up would've probably been harder with an extra person in the room the whole time (I wouldn't be able to keep my luggage on the second bed while unpacking it, for one thing.)
Like I mentioned in the introduction, I ended up playing Super Smash Bros. for the first time in years last night, shortly before bed. They only had three controllers, though, so one guy ended up being left out all the time. Guess I should bring one of mine from home the next time I head back that way?
Had a semi-weird dream last night where I unexpectedly found a pellet gun (the Slavia ZVP .17-caliber one I have back home, to be specific) among my stuff that I had brought to school, which would be trouble since there's a no-guns-of-any-kind-allowed, even-if-they-can't-even-punch-a-hole-through-cardboard-at-15-yards policy. For some odd reason, my doom room looked like a weird fusion of the actual doom room and my room back at Dad's house. I have no idea where the roommate would've slept in that version of the room, but then again I only saw one side of the room in the dream, so I guess there could've been another bed in there somewhere.
Second day was orientation, pretty much. Ate in the dining hall for the first few times (I had a giant Italian sub for lunch the day I moved in, so no food for the rest of the day pretty much... I was stuffed), which wasn't bad at all--I had tried the food before during one of my tours of the school earlier, but this was the first time I'd eaten multiple meals there. I probably mentioned it already, but the salad bar has whole olives! I've never seen that before, even in restaurants (sometimes they'll have the whole green olives, but not the black ones I like... those are always sliced up.)
The student meeting was... kind of silly. Lots of cheering from people not named Eddie (I don't do a lot of random yelling... I did clap sometimes though), and the school's staff are apparently a bunch of goofballs. In the "things to do while you're here" section, one guy even encouraged us to go on dates while we're going to school here... which seems like kind of an odd thing to even mention. Who knows, maybe it'll actually happen, but I still don't think it's all that likely... I have terrible luck with girls.
Speaking of those, I met some cute girls in my orientation group. Religious differences would probably get in the way of any potential "actually getting a girlfriend"-ness, but... I figure my chances of any of them ever liking me in that way in the first place are so low anyway that the whole "convert or die" thing is a problem I'll most likely never have to deal with. Just getting to know them and talking and such shouldn't be a problem. I don't remember anyone's names yet (aside from my roommate's, which I already knew weeks before since the website shows that along with your room number and classes), but then again I'm pretty terrible at remembering names even when I've known people for more than a day. And I can at least recognize several people's faces, which is almost as good as remembering what their names are. One girl apparently shoots and fences... which, now that I think about it, makes her sound kinda like a pirate.
Lots of people from Utah, too. I wouldn't have expected to see so many from that far out west here in Virginia (seriously, there's probably more Utah license plates out there in that parking lot than there are in the rest of the state put together!)
Random thunderstorm broke out during orientation, while walking to the library. Probably the hurricane's first waves of rain and such coming in. Everyone got soaked except our group leader/tour guide, who had an umbrella. Then on the way back from the library, soaked again, since just when we started walking it broke out raining some more.
Went to this somewhat silly thing they do during the later part of the first orientation day called the "Knight Games." (SVU's mascot is a knight, if you didn't know.) Absurdly crowded and noisy, too much for me to stay very long, but I did manage to win a cup (which I needed pretty badly) and a couple of frisbees (which I have... no use for whatsoever) as well as getting a menu from one of the local Italian restaurants (always good to have--there's actually a ton of restaurants in the area, like 3 Italian and 1 Mexican and several pizza places and most of them deliver to the school.) Didn't get to run the bouncy obstacle course or ride the mechanical bull or anything, though, since the lines were ridiculous and I couldn't stand waiting in line with the crowds and noise very long. Half the school must've been packed into that one room... it was ridiculous.
Overall the first two days were pretty good. Food is great for a cafeteria (actually probably on the level of some restaurants I've been to, if not better in some cases--the salad bar is really good, they have whole olives!), so that's no problem. I did lose my razor down the random bottomless pit of doom behind the shower, though. Put it up on top of the rock-ish wall and... whoops, it slipped a little and fell down a hole I didn't know was there! And it's impossible to get out now, unless you got someone with a hooked stick on the ceiling and stuck that down there after it or something. Since I had replacement blades but no replacement razor, I had to shave by holding a replacement razor blade in my hand... yeah, pretty rough. Thankfully I didn't cut myself (not enough to draw blood, anyway... and if it's not enough to draw blood it's not really a cut, is it?)
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