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readingredhead) wrote2008-08-24 09:54 pm
readingredhead) wrote2008-08-24 09:54 pm
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So...getting back in the swing of things here. Everyone just moved in today (as in all of the other people at Berkeley) and classes start Wednesday. That is not enough time for me to do all of the things that I need to do between now and then, of course. It's not a long list but it's rather meaty. Ugh.
Met the other people on my floor today, and as far as I can tell, almost every last one of them is a stereotypical jock. I'm not trying to make assumptions or be critical, but when all of the questions to the RA were about how lax she's going to be about drinking in the dorms, and when they all listed "partying" as one of their major hobbies, I stopped liking them. Well, not all. The student health worker who lives on our floor is a total sweetheart, and there are one or two other girls and guys who I don't know yet but who seem decent at least. The thing that annoys me is that all of the jocks already know each other, and for the most part are living with people they already know, and as a result the floor is going to be cliquey.
In other news, I'm having problems with my laptop touchpad. Yes, that would be the touchpad that I was having problems with before the laptop got sent in to be totally reconditioned. The touchpad that I told them to replace, but that they didn't. I'm hoping I can make things work by just reinstalling the driver, but I've had too many touchpad issues in the past, of the kind that make it impossible for me to use the computer without attaching a mouse, which I don't own.
In other other news, I still don't have pictures of my room. I really have been meaning to take some and get them up, I'm just lazy and it'll probably take me a while. Suffice it to say that it's big enough for all of you to come and visit!
Later I will post an entry that contains pictures as well as an awesome personality test thing that we did as part of my tutor training here that is rather accurate and very interesting, I think. But right now, I'm off to reinstall the driver that will (fingers crossed) solve Fitz's problems.
Oh, I lied: Riders of the Storm (Julie E. Czerneda's newest book) comes out September 2nd!!! I'm so excited I'm using multiple exclamation points, an offense that generally apalls the writer in me!!!
Met the other people on my floor today, and as far as I can tell, almost every last one of them is a stereotypical jock. I'm not trying to make assumptions or be critical, but when all of the questions to the RA were about how lax she's going to be about drinking in the dorms, and when they all listed "partying" as one of their major hobbies, I stopped liking them. Well, not all. The student health worker who lives on our floor is a total sweetheart, and there are one or two other girls and guys who I don't know yet but who seem decent at least. The thing that annoys me is that all of the jocks already know each other, and for the most part are living with people they already know, and as a result the floor is going to be cliquey.
In other news, I'm having problems with my laptop touchpad. Yes, that would be the touchpad that I was having problems with before the laptop got sent in to be totally reconditioned. The touchpad that I told them to replace, but that they didn't. I'm hoping I can make things work by just reinstalling the driver, but I've had too many touchpad issues in the past, of the kind that make it impossible for me to use the computer without attaching a mouse, which I don't own.
In other other news, I still don't have pictures of my room. I really have been meaning to take some and get them up, I'm just lazy and it'll probably take me a while. Suffice it to say that it's big enough for all of you to come and visit!
Later I will post an entry that contains pictures as well as an awesome personality test thing that we did as part of my tutor training here that is rather accurate and very interesting, I think. But right now, I'm off to reinstall the driver that will (fingers crossed) solve Fitz's problems.
Oh, I lied: Riders of the Storm (Julie E. Czerneda's newest book) comes out September 2nd!!! I'm so excited I'm using multiple exclamation points, an offense that generally apalls the writer in me!!!
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Exclamation Points‽
Exclamation points are OK, but when I'm not doing serious writing I try to use the interrobang as much as possible. *grin*
Re: Exclamation Points‽
Stranger is one of my favorite books of hers...it's her first novel, and while the writing occasionally shows this, it's also got this fantastic sincerity and earnestness to it, IMO.
When you finish with the trilogy that Stranger started, I'd recommend her Species Imperative trilogy, the first book of which is called Survival.
Overall, my favorite books of hers are probably the ones she's still working on -- her prequel trilogy to Stranger et al. The second book of that trilogy is what's coming out in September.