New bed, new toothbrush, new opportunities.
Also, new radio stations, TV channels and newscasters. (What’s real anymore!!!?!!!!)
After a very mellow and relaxed Friday evening, I fired up my desktop (last time for a while) and got my wanted level up to 4 stars before I was shot by a police helicopter (hopefully the last time for a while). Then I slept until 5 AM.
We somehow jammed all my crap into the trunk and half of the back seat. And I drove (again) for three hours, this time with a steadily building shrill tone in my ear that was my aunt complaining about how I almost killed us.
My room is about 15×11. There’s a desk with drawers and lights and cabinets. I also splurged on a bed loft to make room for a TV and my roommate’s Haier minifridge which trumps the Coleman cooler I brought along.
My roommate got a loft as well and also provided the table and a padded chair and ottoman, which we set across from my lawn chair.
The campus is still the same as it was on orientation day. There’s buildings and trees and sidewalks and the occasional trustee’s bust on a pedestal. Nothing to write home about.
Since I’m working at the Harrison Grille, I was subject to supplementary “employee orientation” for meet my coworkers. EASET stands for something with employment and training and team building but there’s free food involved and they see a need to march us into the bleachers to give us popsicles, so long live Lord EASET.
There were teambuilding activities and sports. The phrase, “epic soccer game” comes to mind, then just as quickly disappears because of the two hours of mediocre soccer I played. I was only around for the raffle anyway, in which I ended up with a booklight and a pocket calc.
I ordered the Resnet dorm internet access which I use through a RJ-45 wall jack. But the network in the lobby and all university buildings only gives instructions for wireless access through Windows, not Ubuntu. And I lack the expertise to do anything about it. I can’t use Tomboy, I can’t scroll with the touchpad, and I have no package manager. File system check! But the speeds are so fast. (~650KBps)
And could someone remind me to do laundry in two weeks? And then could someone tell me how to do laundry in two weeks?
I’m not in a great position to look it up right now, but if you can send me a link to the Windows info, I can take a look. I seem to recall it was mostly standard stuff.
I can’t help with the Ubuntu bit, but it looks like Andy’s got that covered.
My freshman year at college I was doing laundry. This guy was just staring with his jaw on the floor. I couldn’t figure out what was so interesting about my method of doing laundry. After a few minutes he finally spoke…
“Detergent. I never knew I had to use laundry detergent. No wonder my clothes don’t look right”
This may help.
Actually this other site has some nice tips that apply to doing laundry in a dorm. Really, people will steal your clothes. Or dump them on a counter if you leave them in the machine too long.
/mothering
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/airlink/setup/winxp.cfm
And thanks.
Your mom obviously doesn’t yell at you nearly enough if you don’t know how to do laundry 😛
Argh, that smiley came out wrong. At any rate, I’m insulting you, not smiling at you with my tongue hanging out.