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masterofmidgetsA Brief Summary Of The Last Few Days
Wednesday: spent 12 hours in the car with my father. Utah and Colorado were quite lovely to drive through. Salt Lake City seemed cool, for what I saw of it; we basically got in, ate dinner, and crashed. Because 12 HOURS IN THE CAR. Urgh.
Thursday: The salt flats in Utah are hideous. The drive was only about 7 hours, so that was good. There is a very small part of Reno (ie where all the casinos are) that is shiny and fun, the rest is a white trash dump. People kept mistaking me for a trophy wife. WTF Reno?
Friday: short drive again, this time through the moutains in Northeast California. Utterly, utterly gorgeous, if slow-going and a bit nausea-inducing at times (lots and lots of going in circles). I find it bizarre that I was able to read the entirety of Night Watch (Terry Pratchett), which was 400-odd pages, straight through with no problems, but 15 minutes of Japanese studying and I felt so queasy I had to stop before I got sick. We stayed with my uncle, who is neat (and /such/ a closet case), but had no internet and 5 golden retreivers. Enough said.
Today: got to campus around 1 in the afternoon. Moving all my stuff in was surprisngly hassle-free since it was stored literally 20 feet away. Roommate seems like a nice person so far, and reasonably messy, which is good. Two Major Problems.
1. I have no key! The housing office was closed when we got here, so I couldn't sign in and get my room key. Which means I have no way to get into the building until Monday unless someone else happens to be around. Or my /room/. I am very much spazzing about this.
2. When I went to register my computer so I could get online, I found out my wireless card had somehow spontanouesly disappeared. Like, it doesn't work, it isn't showing up /anywhere/, and the wireless utilty program won't open. It's not a life-ending problem - I can get on with my ethernet cable, and it's even long enough I can get my computer on my bed once I can see it again, but I am so tired and head-achey and frustrated and sick of this stuff it has me about in tears. I did everything my RCC could think of, including redownloading the drivers, but no go. She's going to ask around the other RCCs, but it might be a hardware problem, I don't know. Just...gah. I don't even want to deal with this now.
There will hopefully be a better, less emo post later, when I've gotten some damn sleep.
Wednesday: spent 12 hours in the car with my father. Utah and Colorado were quite lovely to drive through. Salt Lake City seemed cool, for what I saw of it; we basically got in, ate dinner, and crashed. Because 12 HOURS IN THE CAR. Urgh.
Thursday: The salt flats in Utah are hideous. The drive was only about 7 hours, so that was good. There is a very small part of Reno (ie where all the casinos are) that is shiny and fun, the rest is a white trash dump. People kept mistaking me for a trophy wife. WTF Reno?
Friday: short drive again, this time through the moutains in Northeast California. Utterly, utterly gorgeous, if slow-going and a bit nausea-inducing at times (lots and lots of going in circles). I find it bizarre that I was able to read the entirety of Night Watch (Terry Pratchett), which was 400-odd pages, straight through with no problems, but 15 minutes of Japanese studying and I felt so queasy I had to stop before I got sick. We stayed with my uncle, who is neat (and /such/ a closet case), but had no internet and 5 golden retreivers. Enough said.
Today: got to campus around 1 in the afternoon. Moving all my stuff in was surprisngly hassle-free since it was stored literally 20 feet away. Roommate seems like a nice person so far, and reasonably messy, which is good. Two Major Problems.
1. I have no key! The housing office was closed when we got here, so I couldn't sign in and get my room key. Which means I have no way to get into the building until Monday unless someone else happens to be around. Or my /room/. I am very much spazzing about this.
2. When I went to register my computer so I could get online, I found out my wireless card had somehow spontanouesly disappeared. Like, it doesn't work, it isn't showing up /anywhere/, and the wireless utilty program won't open. It's not a life-ending problem - I can get on with my ethernet cable, and it's even long enough I can get my computer on my bed once I can see it again, but I am so tired and head-achey and frustrated and sick of this stuff it has me about in tears. I did everything my RCC could think of, including redownloading the drivers, but no go. She's going to ask around the other RCCs, but it might be a hardware problem, I don't know. Just...gah. I don't even want to deal with this now.
There will hopefully be a better, less emo post later, when I've gotten some damn sleep.