i had my harry potter class yesterday. the best part was when she handed out the syllabus and at the bottom of the page it said “required textbooks: harry potter and the sorcerer’s stone, harry potter and the chamber of secrets, harry potter and prisoner of azkaban…” et cetera. awesome.

college life passes by SO SLOW. i feel like i’ve been here for weeks, and it’s only been 6 days. i’m going home for the long weekend though, i’m excited to shower in my own bathroom again. lol.

LAN’S AWESOME STORY OF THE DAY:
today at lunch we sat outside because it was finally not unreasonably hot out. we spent most of the meal swatting away bees because they were friggin’ everywhere. megan, my roommate, told us a story about people where she lived that would capture bees, put them in the freezer, and then tie a string around them when they were “hibernating.” then they would wait for them to wake up, and they’d have a bee on a string. so of course we caught a bee in my empty cup, named it wallace mcbee, and put it in the freezer of sruthi’s roommate. but then we had to go to classes, and we didn’t take it out for like four hours. we spent awhile trying to get the string on, but by then it was obvious that he wasn’t waking up. we killed him. poor wally.

ETA: i googled pet bees, and i discovered that the bee should only be in the freezer for 5 minutes. lol. we’re idiots.

oh, mc lars concert, how can i describe thee?

obviously, a list. a long list. and a mandatory teaser photo.

me and mc lars. first he told me he likes my “style” then said he remembered me from last time, and then he made a crazy face for my photo. i love him. seriously.

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so… classes were pretty meh. all we really did was go through the syllabus and take notes. today i had anthropology 100, calculus 1, and physics 101. my anthropology teacher explained that all of the class outlines are available online, so that should eliminate the copying off the powerpoint that usually occurs. my calculus teacher has the highest honors a professor can get and is basically the best teacher at our school. and my physics teacher is pretty basic, but he’s funny, sort of.

‘Sort of’ is such a harmless thing to say. Sort of. It’s just a filler. Sort of - it doesn’t really mean anything. But after certain things, sort of means everything. Like ‘I love you, sort of,” “You’re going to live, sort of,” and “It’s a boy, sort of.”
–Demetri Martin

i’m going back to rochester tomorrow for the mc lars concert at waterstreet! i’m psyched!

OMG CLASSES START TOMORROW.

part of me is kind of excited to finally learn what a college class is like, but mostly i’m scared more than i have ever been in my entire life. i really don’t think i can handle it. it’s all i could really think about today.

but, i did do some semi-productive things today. we finally walked across campus to the other dinning hall, to see what it was like. i attended the book discussion for our required reading (into the wild, a nonfiction novel), and was majorly bored. i went to convocation and listened to a hilarious speech by a physics teacher about appreciating the geek in all of us. and we went to wegmans. ah, i love wegmans.

college life is fine (well, i haven’t had any classes yet, so talk to me again on monday). we just had a few friends (six including my roommate megan and me) in our room for a couple hours and we watched anchorman and talked. it was pretty fun. i’ve got to finish that required book now. ugh.

i’ve met a lot of people this last few days, and they have all been really cool. everyone likes my hair, which always makes me happy. today we spent two hours at dinner, even though we finished our food in like 20 minutes, because we made friends with two girls that were looking for a seat that turned out to be really awesome so we talked for awhile.

I’M AT GENESEO!

i’m completely moved in, i just have to organize all my shit. my parents and liz just left (and yes, i actually did hug them). i’ve talked to a few of my brighton friends already, and my roommate seems pretty cool. i’m still mad nervous about classes starting. hey, maybe it won’t be too bad.

but i do miss my bedroom already. i had finally gotten everything perfect!

ETA: i took some photos! here’s a shot of my half of the room, to see the other photos, they’re in my flickr photostream.

OMFG I MOVE OUT OF MY WONDERFUL HOUSE AND INTO MY TINY DORM ROOM TOMORROW MORNING AT 8.

this is insane. i’m so nervous, every time i think about college and moving out my stomach feels weird and my heart rate goes up. i can’t handle stress. UGH.

today was my last day babysitting, and it was all pretty basic until when we were at the pool talking to the lifeguard when a kid spent five minutes climbing over the fence, as we stood next to him, telling him to stop. he didn’t seem to understand, and when he got over he ran out of our reach. we told him he had to leave and gestured to the gate, but he didn’t respond. he took off his shirt and looked at the pool. we ran over and tried to get him to go out the gate, but at once he sprinted towards the pool and jumped in. we freaked out and b and i ran to the development’s office to get help. they told us they’d call his parents and that the lifeguard needed to remove him, so he jumped in and pulled him out and carried him outside the gate. a neighbor told us he didn’t speak english and he was autistic. so that was a new experience.

today i had the pleasure of babysitting you-know-who (who we will refer to as b) AND her four year old sister (who we will refer to as r). she’s at that stage where she’s really bossy, really cute, and really hilarious. when i asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, she replied, “a policeman—like walker, texas ranger!” i asked if she would wear a hat like walker, and she said, “yeppers!”

during the day we played a board game until they got bored, and then we walked to see the ducks at a pond nearby. then we walked to the library and read numerous books out loud in the children’s section. when we got back we hung out at the pool and talked to the lifeguards, but didn’t swim. we were hungry by then, so we drove to wendy’s for lunch. we spent a really long time at the register as r tried to decide between chicken nuggets and a cheeseburger. well, originally her order was “ummmm, a cheeseburger. and fries. and chicken nuggets. umm, and a soda. and some fries. and a frosty!” the lady at the register thought this was adorable and told me i had very cute kids. do i look that old? anyway, when we got home they actually decided they wanted to swim, so they changed into their suits. the water was like 70, those kids are insane. well, their mom came eventually and goodbye hugs ensued.

so, i babysit today. i didn’t mention this before, but i most definitely wasn’t looking forward to it because this particular girl was always a problem at after school, she likes to talk back. when her mom asked for a babysitter, everyone else seemed to have something to do this week. i volunteered because, well, i like getting paid.

so i went over with low expectations. and this is going to sound crazy, and i never thought i’d EVER say this, but… i actually had a fun time! when she’s not around her peers she’s actually a really cool kid. we watched a movie (raise your voice starring hill-duff, which i will admit i brought from home, but it’s liz’s, not mine!), walked to the library and read for a half an hour (we even learned a bit about how books are organized), made sandwiches (bologna and, ew—mayonnaise, which i had to actually spread), went to tops and poked bread and made fun of cheese (plus bought dr pepper), did magic tricks (she did two card tricks, which i had actually taught her earlier this year but she seemed to have forgotten that), and played cards (i learned two new games, yay). and she never argued with me or was rude at all. it was actually f-u-n.

but the highlight of my 7 hour day was when we stopped in a gamestop on the way home so she could show me what she was getting for christmas (a DS). she tried that brain game for adults that’s really popular, and she was doing this thing where she had to subtract 7 from a high number (like 82), and then subtract 7 from the answer, and so on. she’s not the best at math (i think she has a tutor), so she kept asking me to tell her the answers. soon the two employees there and a mom that had come in with her kid were crowded around giving her tips on subtracting and helpful hints for using your fingers and such. it was so adorable. a team effort.

tonight was the reel big fish concert! you might remember that i went to their concert in 2005 also, and all i had to say about it was, and i quote, “WENT TO REEL BIG FISH! IT ROCKED AND MY LIFE IS NOW COMPLETE!” this concert was good too, but since i’m not such a OMG ILU RBF fan anymore, it didn’t really make my life any more complete than it already is, but i’m fine with that. streetlight manifesto, less than jake, and some terrible band i forgot the name of opened for them. streetlight was awesome, they even covered one of my favorite catch 22 songs (catch 22 is my true ska love). less than jake was good, but i’ve never been a big fan so it wasn’t anything special. but reel big fish was amazing and played all my favorite songs, including the one i’ve had stuck in my head for the last two days (i thought it would help to hear it, but it just made it worse). now i’m tired from standing for six straight hours, and i have to get up at 6 in order to drive my dad to work at 7 so that i can drive myself to the house where i’m babysitting. hooray.

i’m so sad! today was the last day of betwixt and between, which means today was the last day of work until i either a) get a new job, or b) next summer when camp starts again. work has kind of become a really big part of my life and i’m going to miss it so much. i hope that some of my breaks align with the break camps so i can work those, but they probably won’t. *sob*

so, ONE WEEK UNTIL I MOVE OUT OF BRIGHTON AND INTO GENESEO. this is insane. i have only contemplated packing, nothing more than that. next week is going to be insanity.