Back-to-school madness

So I've moved in. That was Saturday. All day.

Let's just say that the third floor with no elevators makes moving in a little more difficult than last year's. We made it, though!! I absolutely love my room. I've got some bookshelves, a futon, a nice bed, a cozy space underneath where you can sleep or just lounge . . . it's a nice, cozy, homey room. I think I'm going to really enjoy living here.

My mom wore me out Saturday. We got done moving me in (which means getting everything up here and mostly put together/away) around 4 or so, and then we went shopping. For anyone that knows my mother, saying we went shopping means we went shopping. As in, we started around 4:30 and ended around 9:30 or so. That's 5 hours for you math-challenged people. We got some really good bargains at Kohl's and Big Lots. As in, pillows (sleeping and throw/floor) for like $5 a piece. Um, heck yes for a college budget! Pretty sure I startled some people in Wal-Mart, which is rather funny in retrospect. Actually, it was rather funny then. I got a call about 8:45 from an unknown number and it took me a second before I realized who the person on the other end was . . . but once I did, I, uh, yelled their name rather loudly and rather excitedly in the middle of a frozen food aisle. Lol, needless to say it made my day of moving in and shopping all completely worth it and much shorter. :)

We start our training tonight. We have a dinner at 5:00, which I guess is going to include a basic introduction to being an RA and probably basic introductions to each other and I wouldn't be surprised if we played some trust-building get-to-know-each-other games. They seem to like those. They haven't told us yet what our schedule is going to be like for the next two weeks. I know I'm going to be really busy, but I have no clue what time we start or what time we end or if I have free time during the day. Eh. I'm sure they'll tell us tonight. I hope.

I finally finished the 7th HP book. I thought she did a wonderful job with this one. It's probably my favorite. I do wish it were longer, just because there's a lot of time there that I know don't know what happened - and as a fan, I'd like to know what happened to the characters I've read about for years and years. I guess she let's our imaginations take that ride on their own. I seriously need to start on some of my school books. My Honors class has five books and some of them are daunting in size. And I know this teacher, we'll be reading all of them and the whole book. Head start sounds like a brilliant idea.

Well, I'm off to get ready for this dinner thing. Gotta shower and all.

Jen