Just a few (pretty bad) pictures taken on the first day of move in. A lot of them were taken discreetly or while walking, hence the horrible quality, but you get the general idea.
Woke up this morning to Clocky - he works! At about 8.30 am, US kids began moving in to Aycock. Lots of people running up and down hallways, heaving things up and down the stairs, lots of cars trying to find parking space... there were even a few U-Hauls. Didn't have time to say hi to anybody - went over to West Campus for the rest of international orientation.
International orientation today basically consisted of a few talks on Duke basketball, the tenting process, substance abuse, student health... after which we were released, free to go.
Took the bus back to East - I'm getting the hang of the bus system.. okay, not really - and picked up my DukeCard, my mailbox key, mailed off the stuff and then returned to the dorm to find that Anne's parents had been by to move some of her stuff in. The room is looking slightly more lived in now, but Anne won't be here till about 2.
I have no idea what's happening in between now and 4 pm. I think people are setting up bank accounts or heading to various malls to settle their phone things. There's also a Target trip at 2 pm, so I might go pick up a few things.
At the end of last year I started a Tumblr as a little inspiration board for myself... just for pretty pictures and quotes and occasional conversationlets with friends. When I started thinking about moving my blog, I registered 2203.tumblr.com, but I think I'm just going to use my previous Tumblr at xxii.tumblr.com (cause I'm born on the 22nd, stupid).
I've got a friend, he's a purebred killing machine He said he's waited his whole damn life for this I knew him well when he was seventeen now he's a man who'll be dead by Christmas, and so everybody's going to war but we don't know what we're fighting for Don't tell me it's a worthy cause no cause could be so worthy.
if love is a drug, I guess we're all sober if hope is a song, I guess it's all over how to have faith when faith is a crime? I don't want to die
if God's on our side, then God is a joker asleep on the job, his children fall over running out through the door and straight to the sky I don't want to die
I was reading Patrick Welsh's article in USAToday about how text messaging is apparently the bane of high school education and is producing a generation of intellectually delinquent students. Frankly, I found the article to be ridiculous, and was happy to see that most of the comments disagreed with his conclusion that "parents should disable the text messaging function of their kids' cellphones" and "a crackdown the first day of school in September will set the get-tough tone for the rest of the year."
Till I saw this comment by a user named "a-dizzle":
"Dear Patrick Welsh,
I think that you are very 1 misinformed 2 you are making many false assumption and 3 a strongly opionated stupid old man who does not and will not ever understand why we like to text and the fact that while we text we are still learning. Because i know as you wrote this you said to your self when i was a kid i couldn't text well i would like to let you know that things have changed since 1492 when you were a kid ok?"
Whenever I'm feeling like life is moving too fast, or that I'm actually growing up, or that I'd rather not deal with feelings at all, it's hard to make my "grown up" brain shut up.
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