Post Number 50

I am excited and you should be too because this post, this one right here, is post number fifty! I've been entertaining readers for fifty posts and let me tell you that this lovely number fifty won't disappoint.
Are ya'll ready?

At this point in the life of my blog some would consider it "over the hill" but Bloggity feels "young as a spring chicken". It is in the prime of life and all it sees is the "golden road of success" stretching out before it. Lovely Bloggity; though the internet birth canal you were introduced to the world and boy did you come out swinging. Some were entertained, some doubted, some even had the audacity to argue with you, thinking they could overpower you but no. Bloggity you are strong and with eloquent dialog you "shut them down". And the joy and the learning and the pain have continued fifty posts strong and I, my dear Bloggity, look forward to fifty more.

The Perfect Start

Ah, so I moved onto campus yesterday. Moving took time and setting up took time and did ya'll know there is a lot of time invested in moving onto campus? This year, Megan and I get one side of the room and Mery and Selby have the other with a desk-shared center space. I'm not cozy with the layout but so far we've made it work. But, because the actual organization section of the moving is a tab bit boring I will continue into the entertaining part that happened early early early in the morning.

Premise: Megan and I bunked our beds. I am on the top.

Last night at about two-thirty am my dorm had a fire drill. The first night we're all on campus and we're already being evacuated from a building. It was blah. But the most blah part of it was that when the alarm went off I was sleeping and in my sleepingness I totally forgot that I was up in the air. I don't remember the actual falling and to be honest I didn't really wake up until I was outside with inside-out pants and a very sore knee.
Yes, in the fall all I did was scrap up and bruise my knee. Today it is swollen and stiff and pretty colors. I am lucky that I didn't break something though like my arm or my leg or my head or Megan.

To add to the mayhem I am in a wedding next weekend with a dress that just barely covers my knees and four inch heels . . . I am excited about the wedding just not so excited that I get to show off my bruise. Maybe it will go away before the wedding. Oh, and I hope the skin comes back . . . that part is not too bad because I fell on a rug.

Yes, so that was my start to my sophomore year. Memorable is the word I would choose. Everything should be memorable.

Have a great one.

Pictures: First is a picture of the roommates. From left to right is Mery, Selby, me, and then Megan. Pictures two is of me on move in day and my mass amounts of hangers. Thanks for the pic. Mery. Third is the bed situation and fourth is my knee after the fall. That is as of this afternoon.

Pack Pack Pack

Pack.

I am packing. I was packing. I packed. Pack. Backpack. Saddle pack. Fanny pack. Meat packing. Pack the trunk. Pack the suitcase. Pack that sprain with ice. Pack that bleeder. Pack with care, use Styrofoam. Speed packing. Cram packing. Careful packing. Space packing. Pack for vacation. Pack for school. Pack for space camp. Pack for Grandma's.

Hmm, so, I wonder what activity has encompassed my past few days. Between laundry and locating suitcases I smell like musty soap. Contradictory I suppose and today a few friends told me I smelled good. Maybe I smelled like nothing that was the reason it was good. Sometimes that is the best smell, nothing. I do get frustrated by perfumes and cologne. One squirt and that is enough. My goodness you don't want to smell like the shop. I suppose that some scents are faint and then a little more is okay but I really don't want to smell ya before I see ya, even in the scent is pleasant.

But yes, so the packing.

I also want to welcome the freshmen to campus. Yay freshmen. They all moved in yesterday or Tuesday . . . I'm not sure but I welcome them and theirselves to the campus. I hope their first semester at OWU is fun and education and fun.

I've got one and half days left at home. I move in on Saturday. It is a sad thing because I am a homebody and my friends in Cincy really are a great group of people. I'm excited to get back to OWU but I wish I could pack them all up in a suitcase and take them with me. I wonder if my roommates would mind them living in my closet . . . I wonder if Mike would fit in my closet ;)

Have a great one.

PS: forgive the lack of pictures I was going through my blogs and realized that this one is unpublished so I quickly published it and then realized that there are no pictures. I would like to say that I will later add pictures but I know me and I won't. So please don't get your hopes up.

Oooo Shiny

I've had an exciting weekend don't ya know. I have officially entered into the forty second hour of the Naruto marathon. This is my television splurge before school starts up again. It is a fifty hour marathon and I hope that when it is finished I am done with TV for a while.
But, I haven't just been watching Anime. Along with the shiny distractions on TV I have been writing. Lots of writing.

And I've got to go pick up a book from Katie. I'm borrowing one before I go back to school and I need to read it and get it back so I should go get it today. It is called The Toyminator which is the follow up novel to Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse I highly recommend the first one and I'm hoping number two doesn't disappoint.
Katie heads north a week after I go back to OWU. It is an exciting thing to return to school but I really am sad about leaving the Cincy gang. It's a click I haven't been able to find anywhere else and I am going to miss it. But, we made it through one year and I know that we can make it through another. It is a special thing to find a group of people that you leave off with and don't feel any awkwardness when you get back together.
Mike leaves the same weekend I do. Liv and Rose go back sometime in September. Goofy late starters. I'm not complaining though. I really do like getting out in May.

Let's see, I started packing. I have bags all over my room but I prefer not to think about it. The most frustrating thing is the packing. That is the one thing I hate and because I am an organization guru I am not happy with the state of my room nor the prospect of what it will look like when I really start to bag things up. Le shrug, only a week left.

Have a great one.

Tech II

Okie dokie, so I realized as I stared at the DVD player on my floor that I forgot something that is important but not . . .

Television: Now at OWU cable is included in the bill so all the rooms have cable. I do recommend having a TV. Whether you watch it consistently or not the television does provide a nice way to de-stress. I like to turn it on when I'm writing just for background noise. But don't go overboard on the TVs either. Not everybody in your room needs their own picture box. I would say the most you need is two and if you organize right you can bring it down to one.
In rooms like those of Thompson or Bashford you will only need one because the room configuration is just one big room. Two would be a nuisance. Anywhere else two is okay, though in the Smith rooms you can rearrange them so you would only need one.

The best way to organize the television and all its extras, as far as bringing, is to split it between the roommates. For example, this coming year Megan and I are sharing a bedroom and we are going to have a TV. She has the television and VCR so I went out and got a DVD player. As an incoming freshman such conversations can be a little awkward but believe me, if you take care of it now it becomes a lot easier once you get on campus.

Also, make sure you have a place to put the television. I don't recommend keeping it on the floor so just converse with your roommate(s) and make sure somebody is bring a table or shelving of some kind.

Another good thing to have is a cable splicer which allows you to connect two television to one cable feed. In some rooms (I believe those of Welch and Hayes) there is only one cable access so it is a good idea to have the ability to split that between the two bedrooms.

Bring some duct tape as well. Trust me, you'll need something to hold those cords to the ground.

Have a great one.

How to Build a Dorm Room Part II

So, I said I'd get to the tech stuff and here it comes.

A computer. As a college student it is about time to invest in a computer of some kind. Majority of college students do prefer laptops because the take up less space and are portable. I recommend them because they take up less space and they take up less space. A desk top is okay but on a small desk it becomes a hassle and it does confine you to your room for studying.

Do you need a computer? We are a tech generation and the convenience a computer gives you is amazing but if you don't have/can't get one you might survive. Here are your options are OWU. In both Beegly Library and the Science library we have computer labs as well as a small congregation of computers in the science library. You can work there but you can't save anything to those computers because the memory is wiped every night. Two dorms (Welch and Hayes) also have twenty-four hour labs in them but again with the saving issue. It is your choice of course.

Ethernet cable: This is very important. OWU is not a wireless campus but all of the dorm rooms do have internet hook ups and in order to connect to the OWU network you need one. We do have some wireless areas but not the dorms.

Wireless areas: Beegly Library. The Science Center and Library. Slocum Hall.

Printers: I debated this issue a lot as a readied myself for school and decided that I did not need one. I did not want to sacrifice the space. And I found the you don't need one. The library has printers (including the amazing print station which gets spotlighted in my tour) and it takes maybe two minutes. This is coming from an English major with a focus in creative writing. You don't need a printer. I had papers of multiple pages due nearly every week and I survived.

Flash Drive: This is a good way to save important papers or easily transport papers to a printer. It is a five second save job, you carry the device to said printer, and you print. I did not know the glory of the flash drive until college and now I am in love.

Please leave me any questions. Have a great one.