Movin on up

Hokay, so. Here is the earth. . .

Yesterday morning I moved into my dorm with my two roommates, Jamie and Kim. The three of us were pretty upset about being tripled, but as it turns out it really isn’t that bad. We all seem to get along pretty well and there’s more space that I would have expected. My personal issue with the situation is that both Jamie and I have beds that are crazy high up. I’m on a loft bed, with my desk and things neatly tucked underneath and she has to sleep on the top bunk of Kim’s bed. Even though I had a bunk bed at home, I never slept on the top, because I was too lazy to climb up and down every morning and night and because the ladder part hurt my feet. This is definitely something I have to get used to. On the bright side my mattress is way more comfortable than I thought it would be. This is probably due to the 8000 inches of memory foam my parents and I put on it when we got here.

I am actually very impressed with the amount of space I have in this room. All of my clothes fit in a wardrobe and two dresser drawers. I also managed to fit my trunk and my plastic drawers in the wardrobe, plus towels and shoes. I have a third drawer to my name, because there are nine drawers and three girls so we split them easily using our intellectual college math minds. I stuffed all my clothes into two so that I could use my third drawer for food, because it was getting in the way when it was in my closet. I now officially have a drawer of unmentionable starches. Speaking of food, I’ve already had two pieces of the zucchini bread my grandmother made me and I had to stop myself from having more. It’s excellent and great with coffee for breakfast. J I haven’t gone to the dining hall yet, which is conveniently –very- close to my dorm. I made myself some soup for dinner last night and had some zucchini bread. I was still getting things organized. In fact, I’m –still- getting things organized.

This morning I went for a bike ride on my pretty stylish bicycle. I wanted to explore the campus, but I was only out for like an hour. It was just too hot. The humidity is awful and it isn’t really worth going outside at this point. Unfortunately my other option is hanging out in my dorm, which is fine, because I like my roommates, but there isn’t a lot to do and our internet isn’t working. (I’m writing this as a word document to post later.)

*sidenote* We did finally get our internet up and running, a handy IT man came in and told us we did things wrong. :-P Go figure.

Overall I like it here a lot, but I'm really anxious for classes to start. I feel like I don't have much to occupy my time right now.

Annnd Now! Pictures of my new home.

This is one of the doors to my wardrobe. . . I thought I was pretty cool.



And inside my very cluttered wardrobe. (sorry its fuzzy, I was too lazy to retake it.)


This was the first poster I put up. Its on the inside of my wardrobe door. I didn't want my roommates to judge me right away. . .


And the other door.


And this is kind of my area of the room. I share the dresser in the corner with my roommate Jamie.



So yeah. . . that's my room. . . not including the other side which my roommates have.

What am I doing?

Lately, I have been having some trouble focusing. Normally I would attribute my distractions to the Christmas season. This, I have to admit, is understandable. How can one expect a person to be productive with there's five seasons of Angel on DVD just waiting to be watched? You can't really. Especially if that person is me. So I was under the impression that the reason I didn't even glance at my homework last week was because of the massive pile of wonderful books and DVDs I got for Christmas. The only flaw in that theory is that I didn't read any of the books I got for Christmas last week, and there were times (god forbid) that I got a little restless with watching Angel. So how did I manage to avoid accomplishing anything? Of course now we're all thinking, "she's a teenager, she's supposed to be lazy." Which in some cases is regrettably true, however, I like to think that when it's necessary I can be a very productive human being. Unfortunately, I've encountered this overwhelming lack of motivation in the last month that likely has stemmed from being accepted into CNU.
I feel like my academic efforts for the past four years have been rewarded, and now I would like to rest. The problem with this is that I am in no way finished. In addition to having two semesters of classes left, those classes are all IB and therefore require IB testing of some sort. Lucky me! This includes IAs. For those of you who don't speak IB that means internal assessment. Which roughly translates into hellish research projects I have no desire to do. Just the thought of having to do these projects, is painfully overwhelming so my brilliant 'dealing' technique has been exactly the opposite. Not thinking about them, not dealing with them. Unfortunately that plan was short lived and now I have a pile of projects knocking on my door threatening to blow my house down and I don't have a fire place. Any yet, everytime I sit down to work my brain shuts off. Suddenly everything else becomes much more important. I've learned in the past few years that I cannot work in a messy room. If my bedroom is messy I can't do my homework. It's too much of a distraction for me. . . I've cleaned my room, four times in the last week trying to get rid of that distraction. I still haven't done any of my homework. This has left me dissapointed and frustrated. I'm angry at myself for letting almost two weeks pass without furthering myself at all. And now, at the end of the last day that I had to work on my assignments I'm too overwhelmed to even know where to begin. I have let myself fall into what is becoming a bottomless pit.

Right now, I can't help but think that I could have gotten into CNU without the IB program and it would be nice to not have to deal with all of that.

*Sigh*

Oddly enough this blog started with a direction. It ended up being more of a rant than I'd intended.

My Apologies.