Every Beginning Comes from Some Other Beginning's End

Man, what's with me and the Semisonic songs for my titles?
Anyway, as most of you know (or SHOULD know)... I be in College! As of Sunday, September 19th I have become an official WWU Viking. I had my first class today--my ONLY class today-- Intro to Theater. It went pretty well, but it was the intro day, so not a whole lot happened yet. Thursday should be interesting... four things in one day. Just wait, the complaining will begin fairly soon, I reckon.
So let's see if can remember back to last Friday... I wasn't home for most of that day--for the first time in a long time-- because I went dorm shopping with my mom, went to Lindbergh to pick up my brother (and saw some teachers!), then went to a Mariner's game. And it was nice--the only game I go to this season they win! Then Saturday morning I spent a last Shari's meeting with a few cool people--Michelle, Candice, Sonja, Alex, and Deanna. Oh, and Aleeza, on the phone! Had some breakfast there, discussed a few pre-college things, had little chitchats, then said some goodbyes/good lucks. I hung out in Michelle's car while it rained outside, waited for my mom. We sang that one Romanian techno song one last time together... ah, good times. Then it was off to Western with me, Graham drove. And no, I didn't die. Minimal yelling at him from my mom too. He did a good jorb. Anyway, I did that so we could do a little early moving in. It was my mom's idea... so don't give me too much credit for brilliant ideas. Mostly likely if I have a brilliant idea I stole it from someone... So we did some moving in, and a little bit of shopping at the Bellis Fair mall. I like that mall. I think it's nicer than Southcenter so far. It's got a lot of cool things... including a poster store! SWEET! We hit Target and Sears for some stuff. We put them in my room, we left it for the next day. We took that long, 1 1/2 hour drive back home, and my family decided to take me out for dinner. Graham was going to make some of his delicious paella for me, which I LOVE, but it was going to take too long and I still had some packing to do. I called my roommate, we discussed a few things, got some business out of the way, and I found out the only poster she was bringing was a Beatles poster! SCORE!!! I had no problem with that one whatsoever! My family then went up to Olive Garden... mmmmmm... And I tried an italian soda for the first time... so gooooooood.... Then I went home, packed, talked with a few people online, and went to bed.
So now it gets a little more interesting: I woke up early to head off to Western because my roommate and I were planning to bunk our beds and we needed to get parts for the beds (they recommended we come early). Of course, when we get there, there was a loooooooong line; we stood in that line for an hour, watching people carry off big parts so they could loft or captain their beds... when it was my turn, I held out my hand, and recieved four pins. Graham found it so hilarious that we waited an hour in line for four small pins. Oh well. Then my mom decides last minute that we need some carpet, so it was off to a carpet store for us. I was ready to just get the cheapest kind there was and be happy with that, but after looking around my mom just decides that we get a nicer, more expensive carpet and padding to go underneath. Hey, I've got no problem with that! What I DID have a problem with was putting it in my room. We had to move ALL of the furniture outside into the narrow hallway, and we rolling and unrolling that stupid carpet took so much effort. We also discovered last minute that my room is not square--the building itself curves around, so this room has a slight curve on one side. So we had to trim that carpet by hand... in the end, though, I'm glad we have it here. We're the envy of everyone on my floor! We also bunked our beds successfully, and it opened up ALOT of space. I was surprised at how big our room looks now. We have room for a little entertainment center (TV-VCR combo plus a DVD player and and a really awesome sound system!) And our view... ha ha, let me tell you about the people here: they're all nice! And smart! And cool! I lucked out with my roommate, she's into the same movies and most of the same music and I get along very well with her. The girls on my floor are all nice; I've already got to know them on a "friends" basis! And the guys here are all cool... and HOT!! Seriously, every other guy here is hot, and the rest are in the least pretty cute! It's so cool... So the view from my room is very nice! I can see the town down below, the forests and hills in the distance, and a little bit of the Sound. Right below is is a basketball court. My first reaction was, "Ew. Pavement." However, the day I officially moved in, about 6-8 guys decided to play basketball... a few with their shirts off... all of them HOT! We attracted an audience of girls with our nice view, and as one of them said, "I could get used to this...!" To make this story even funnier, one of the girls joked around with putting a sign on our window indicating that we were looking for a few single men. My roommate actually did it! A few pieces of printer paper, a sharpie pen, some tape, and the we had a sign on our window that read "Single?" Man, we were being so silly and giggly about it... I love being a girl sometimes! So later we have a hall meeting, which explained the general policies, and then we had a floor meeting, where introductions were made and we got to know our Residential Advisor. She's fun, funny, and really nice; not bitchy or over-authoritative at all. And the girls on my floor all seem cool. I'm glad to be where I am!
So let's see... over the next few days I shopped with my roommate and her parents, got some posters from the school, decorated a bit, watched a movie with some girls (we leave our door open, we welcome visitors!), ate a barbaque with our floor (we're having dinner together all this week), then went with this one girl on my floor to go watch a movie on the big flat-screen TV up in the lounge on the 9th floor. We watched the SNL's The Best of Mike Meyers, then Don Juan DeMarco. Oooooh... Johnny Depp is so freakin' SEXY!!! And it was a good movie overall. That ended after 11, so I didn't really get to sleep until 11:30-ish.
The next day I went to go eat some breakfast, by myself, as I had done the previous day (my roomie is not a breakfast eater), and I expected to be by my lonesome again, when a guy just comes over and askes permission to sit next to me. And hey, I'm not opposed to new friends! So we do the whole standard introduction questions, "Where you from? Where you staying? What classes are you taking?" etc. We ended up talking in there for about an hour! So later I decide to buy my books, and he had nothing else to do so he followed me to the bookstore, and even directed me around a bit. We went back to my dorm room, talked a bit, then decided to go get some lunch. We did so, talked some more, then went to his dorm so he could do a couple of things. Back to my dorm, where I found my roommate lounging on her bed and watching TV; we joined her, watched, chatted. My roomie and another girl on my floor proposed that we all take a bus to Bellis Fair and do a little shopping. I wasn't opposed to that, and my new guy friend... Holy crap, I think I should stop to tell you names!
Roommate/Roomie: Allison
Girl we know on our floor: Tiffany
Guy I know: William (not Will, not Billy, etc.)
ANYWAY, William wanted to go to Costco to get a few things. We took the bus there, a very tedious ride... we made it too the mall, us girls shopping, poor William being dragged around... but he was a good boy for the most part, not too much complaining, although he kept voicing about how much he wanted to go to Costco. Later we split up- Tiffany and Allison wanted to go back, and William still wanted to go to Costco, so I stuck with him. We had a fun time trying to find it... turns out BOTH our sense of directions are so great. Oh well, as we kept telling ourselves, we had an adventure! We found it eventually, got some stuff, then had an interesting time finding a bus that would take us back to school... It took forever to get back, but in the end, I got a new friend, something to do, and alot of exercise walking around trying to find things! Not a bad day... except I missed dinner.
Speaking of which, I'm hungry. I want to eat. I'll post more later. Until next time... I miss you all!