Astronomy will be very mathy, but I like stars and planets, and I don’t mind math when I know what I’m doing. I was waaaay early for the class though, so I wandered around Bruner hall’s second floor and ended up next to this big giant sphere which I assume will be a planetarium (!) when they finish with it. My French class seemed just like my high school French class, but without Madame’s quirks, and I liked Madame’s accent better. It should be fun, when the class actually lasts as long as it’s supposed to! Madame Goldberg let us out early because she was ahead of schedule and ran out of things to do. Healthful living was interesting. We had a test. Already. It was just a pretest, and I knew a lot of the stuff on it, but I did have to guess on a few that started talking about LCLs and LDLs and DHLs and whatnot. I dunno.

I have to print out my Astronomy homework by Wednesday, and I don’t want to pay for it per page, so I need to go and buy myself a cheap printer. Yes cheap. I’m a broke college student, remember? I have a nice worksheet for French about food, which is done (I’m hungry), and I have already finished my little assignment for HL. I had to introduce myself on the Academic Blackboard site. No big deal.

New classes tomorrow! Western Civilisations at 8AM (NOOO!), and personal money management, which will tell me how to manage being a broke college student

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So far, I like it here, even without the air conditioning. Fans make it better. My bed is comfy, although difficult to get up. I got a loft bed, and I’ve only hit my head a few times I’m finding the best layout of my stuff so I remember where it is, and figure out how to put things where I can reach them from my bed. I have too many essential electronics that can’t all fit on my shelf! iHome, light, fan, cell phone, iPod, iPod touch… Those and my contacts make it very crowded up here.

I’ve been here three days now, and had my first college party last night. Just a dance outside the student union. It was fun, though. For as few people as were there, there were enough for three separate conga lines Because no party is complete without a conga line. I met a few students doing their study abroad from China, and my friends and I taught them the standard American heartland dances: the Cha Cha Slide, a bit of Thriller, and, of course, country line.

As far as school stuff goes, I got my books today, which only came to around $500, which is MUCH better than I was expecting but still the most money I’ve ever spent at one time. Classes start on Monday, and my first class, Astronomy, is at 10:10AM. Yay! I don’t know when my roommate’s first class is. Hopefully not 8:00. Her alarm is one of those beepy ones that scare people awake, rather than gently awakening them. Personally, I’d rather wake up to a harp or a bell tower from my iPod than a fire alarm-like buzzer.

I shall update more later!

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Saw Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Christmas Day.  Loved it, even though it was really gory.  I loved the music so much that I downloaded the soundtrack off iTunes the day after.  Since then, I haven’t been able to get the songs out of my head!  It’s driving me nuts, especially at work where I can’t pop my iPod on.  I can’t stop humming “A Little Priest” . 

But it’s really good music.

You can delete this post when you start blogging. I’ll show you what to do to post later on. I was also able to give you some forums, but had to start fresh there. I’ve also opened a Flickr account for you to use for your pics, and I stuck a few in there just for fun. I’ll show you how that works later as well.

We can tweak the header image up top and stuff, I know you aren’t fond of the pink, but I love it with the grey So I went with it. I also love the Quote-y looking side boxes and the comment buttons. It’s shpiffy.

Anyway, enjoy. Use it well, use it a lot.