One Day Out

Do staplers usually come with some staples in them? Because I thought so, but my $8.00 purple plastic stapler from the student store did not. Talk about a rip off. I wish I'd remembered to get a stapler at Target yesterday.

I got a good deal on notebooks, though - way plain, but way cheap. As soon as my printer gets here, I'm making collages for the covers. I'm very excited. I hope the printer comes soon, though, because I want to get all that out of the way before my classes get really intense, or else I'll never actually have time to do it.

And classes start tomorrow. Sort of, anyway; I only have one class. See, see, here's my schedule:

MONDAY:

Elementary Japanese (Per. 2)

Music 101 (Per. 3)

Freshman Preceptorial (Per. 6)

TUESDAY:

Freshman Preceptorial Common Experience (Per. 5s, 6)

WEDNESDAY:

Elementary Japanese (Per. 2)

Music 101 (Per. 3)

FP (Per. 6)

THURSDAY:

Elementary Japanese (Per. 2)

FRIDAY:

Elementary Japanese (Per. 2)

Music 101 (Per. 3)

FP (Per. 6)

With private voice lessons thrown in there somewhere. Don't know when yet. Or who my teacher's going to be, for that matter. I assume I'll get an e-mail about that sometime in the next few days (that just seems logical, right?).

Actually, maybe class sort of has already started: We had our first FP lecture yesterday. It was kind of about the idea behind the class (the theme is "Conversations in a World of Strangers"), but to my surprise, it was quite interesting. I didn't even have trouble keeping my eyes open like during the Scripps Freshman Core lecture we had when I was there applying for a scholarship. I don't know who my teacher's going to be for that, either, but my class is in Old Main, the humanities building (and the building where one of the Lincoln Douglass debates took place, for you history folks out there), so it'll probably be some English or history teacher.

Great. That sounds way more intense than having a math teacher assign and grade my papers.

But all whining aside, I like my schedule. I'm super excited to start Japanese tomorrow (my month of self-teaching finally pays off!) - I think if I had to pick any class to start first, that would be it. Something to make getting up in the morning worth it. Not that starting class at 9:20 is too traumatizing after starting at 7:30 for the past five years. Plus, Laura and I both start class second period, so we'll be getting up at about the same time instead of having to worry about not waking each other up (except on Tuesdays, when I don't start class until 1:00, in which case I can just go back to sleep if I want to).

I think that's the basic down-low so far. I set up my own PayPal account the other day; now eBay once again owns my soul and probably will until I finish decorating my room. Not that I've been buying a ton of stuff or anything - more like obsessively comparatively shopping. All I've ordered so far are two posters, and I managed to find them both from the same vendor, so I saved money on shipping. 'Course, it'll take about two weeks for them to get here from China, but I got them for a buck or two cheaper than if I'd bought them separately. I'll post some pictures of my room once it's all decorated and ready. It's going to be fabulous.

Okay, I guess there was really more to the basic down-low after all, but now I think I'm done. Things are going well over here, and they're about to get even more exciting. Let the educational experience begin!