off i go
wednesday, august 15, 2001
so. i called nccu last night to see if they had on-campus housing for me or not. at first the man at a desk told me that on-campus was apparently swamped and hard pressed to meet the demand and would off-campus housing work?
i yelped and said no, i need on-campus housing, i'm foreign, i'm poor, please sir i need on-campus housing, okay??
so he transferred to the director. i introduced myself and he laughed and said he remembered me from last year and my, what an amazing phone connection, i could be next door as opposed to across the world! i agreed, and after a lot of
bla bla, he said i could count on there being a room for me, probably even in
my old building from last semester, though perhaps not not a suite ..
well, whatever. major relief. i have a room. not an ideal room but a room. i am pleased.
so now i have decided to not give a fuck that i snore and hate sleeping in a room with ppl. the plan is to simply tell whoever the new roomie right off the bat that i have allergies, sorry, it means i snore some, not a lot, but some, and i'll gladly work with her as much as she needs to so we can both get good
sleep, but there's not much else. it will just have to work itself out. fuck stress. and hey, i am NOT the only snoring girl in the dorm, i know this for a fact, so.. whatever.
magically, the stress has all disappeared. beam.
i spent the morning doing laundry (i have a lot of clothes these days, they fill an entire suit case! that's a lot for me), snuggling with my cat excessively and talking with my dad who came for a visit. i even made him coffee -- considering i've only made coffee a handful of times in my life, i'm amazed every time that it turns out drinkable because i don't even know what it's really supposed to taste like.
dad asked why i have "50 ft. queenie" taped across my wallet. it turns out that "50" was his work number for 32 years. heh. :)
so. this afternoon, i packed all my clothes and now only have to throw books and stuff into the other bag, shower and eat and i'm good to go. my uncle wants us to leave in about 3 hours so i'm doing good on time. i am going to miss my parents and my pets like CRAZY, but it's okay. i'm okay. i feel much calmer and
ready to go than a few days ago, that's for sure.
i even bought two pocket books to bring along for the 20+ hours of travelling, both swedish - one feminist book, under det rosa t�cket by nina bj�rk, that is awesome, about society and language use and attitudes, it's really
in depth and thought provoking, and a docu-book on the swedish vegan movement, veganer, by magnus linton, about the controversies and whatnot. very cool. and obviously i got lots of batteries so h�kan can sing me through all hours of travelling.
so. i'm good to go! wee-haaa! wish me luck and good airplane food, yeah? �� 18:13
