Yeah... was freaking out a little about not having my Spanish workbook. Fortunately, it turned out to not really be a problem, as my Spanish teacher seems pretty nice and will give us some slack in the first week when it comes to turning in stuff on time... and I actually have the workbook now, since right around 1:15, while I was just kinda sitting around talking to someone in the library, the bookstore unexpectedly called me and said they got a shipment of them in (already!? they told me it wouldn't be until next week...) and that I needed to bring my receipt (I had paid for one already) and student ID card. Left my stuff in the library (not by itself, of course... had someone watching it and making sure nobody snatched anything) and rushed over to my dorm to get the receipt, then to the bookstore to get the book, and finally back to the library. Not long afterward I got a call (also unexpected--this one made me jump a little since I wasn't expecting two calls within half an hour of each other!) from one of the girls in my Spanish class who had said I could borrow her workbook until I got my own. I had been a little worried that I wouldn't manage to get in touch with her before class and I'd miss the day's assignment completely, but it turned out I already had my book by then. Kinda funny how that worked out. Still ended up meeting with her in the library, since she needed help with the online part of the class (...which I hadn't even tried to do anything with yet, so I'm probably not the person to be going to for help... but I kinda volunteered to try and help anyway, heh.) Turned out she just wasn't looking in the right spot, I guess; after I pointed out a link on the website that matched up with the chapter title she had no problem finding the rest.
Spanish class went pretty well. The air conditioner was somewhat of a problem--it was the only thing keeping the room from being a roasting oven, but also it was very noisy and made it a little hard to heard the teacher sometimes (especially for me, since I ended up sitting in the back due to not getting there until pretty much the moment class started.) Sitting in the back wasn't too bad this time; I guess since I wasn't cramped up against a wall (my seat was next to the old heater near the air conditioner, so there was about six or eight inches of space between me and the wall), and the Spanish classroom isn't a very crowded one (lots of room between desks.) Actually sitting near someone I knew probably helped, too.
Before Spanish, though (waaaay before, actually... 9:30 AM) was Art History. Turns out I wasn't really still waitlisted for it after all; I got in on the "main" class list, actually. Weird, I'm pretty sure I was told when I was signing up that there was a close-to-100% chance of not getting into that class if I was very far down the waitlist. Kind of odd to start with (lots of weird vague theoretical stuff like "what is art?"... you know, trying to pin a specific definition on something that pinning a specific definition onto one of those things where pinning a specific definition on it only causes more problems), but the teacher's nice and it got more interesting once we actually started looking at a statue she had brought in. It was this old (19th century if I remember right) African carving of a woman that doubled as a mini-boat, probably for transporting their ancestor's remains and things like that (since they were nomadic and had no set gravesites they brought that kind of thing with them.)
Later on did some reading (The Return of Martin Guerre, for history class; I was told it was really boring but so far it doesn't really seem that way to me) and decided to try Jonesy's (or... however it's spelled, I think it has a Z or two mixed in there somewhere), the on-campus restaurant and student lounge fused together. Food was actually very good; if I brought one of the wraps they have there to somebody they would never believe it was school cafeteria food, it was so much closer to "actual restaurant." Actually, I would probably order them at an actual restaurant, since the price was good in addition to the food being good (something like 7 bucks for a foot-long wrap, chips, and a drink; that's actually better prices than Quizno's or Subway!) I had a wrap that they call "The Kiln," which is chicken strips with green and red peppers, onions, melted cheese, fajita sauce (what is fajita sauce? I don't know, but it seemed good) and salsa on the side for dipping the sandwich in or just dumping into the open sandwich before eating (both of which I did, the first with my first half of it and the second with what was left.) Grilled very nicely, too... maybe not a match for the fajitas at San Juan back home, but definitely very good, especially considering it only cost 7 bucks and I got it from what's essentially a second branch of a school cafeteria. Not as crowded as the dining hall, either (though unfortunately I didn't see anyone I knew in there), so I may end up eating there every once and a while (not too often though, since my dining plan only gives me unlimited food at the actual dining hall, not there.) Knowing that their food is actually really good makes me less upset that they got rid of the swimming pool to put it in there.
So basically, the day started out pretty "ehhh" but ended up pretty decent. Just have to remember to bring that portable fan the next time I go to Spanish... and Art History for that matter, since my art teacher always turns off the AC to cut down on the noise.
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