Back on Da Hill

Yeah, I know. I'm late again. I can't even claim ignorance since the last time I updated I named the thing "T-minus three weeks". Well, I'm back at Covenant now. Oops. Well, let's dive right in then, shall we?

The last few weeks at home were pretty largely uneventful (with a few notable exceptions). Mostly it was just get up, go to work, veg, sleep, repeat. I did go to see the Expendables with Josh and Adam Bernitt, which proved that while Stallone can do action, he cannot write a very good script. It was basically a lot of explosions, car chases, and gunfights punctuated by the occasional failed attempt to be deep. Good explosions, bad dialogue.

The last week before I left Angela Beall came down from PA and we got the chance to hang out before I left back for Chattanooga. We kayaked on the West River, which was a ton of fun, and then afterward ventured to downtown Annapolis to tour the main drag. From art shops featuring fantastically complicated sculptures to "oriental markets" with lots of Asian kitsch to joke shops selling Bacon tuxedos and mugs with pictures of Henry VIII and wives who disappear as hot liquid is poured into the mug, we discovered that Annapolis is a very eclectic place to be. They even had a shop devoted entirely to hats.

Along the way we met a street painter who told us that Annapolis was the best place for an artist to be compared to other cities, and that "the Mexicans even asked me to leave after I did this." and then proceeded to turn a spray can into a flamethrower to dry his paint. Very talented, mildly crazy? Sounds like most artists I know.

After Annapolis we checked out Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World, which although I will refrain from publishing another nerd-rant about, probably beat out Inception as my favorite movie this summer, check it out by all means.

After Angela left Sunday afternoon, I got down to getting the finishing touches done on packing before my flight on Monday. This was pretty easy since my Mom and Emily had already left for Tennessee for totally unrelated reasons and had taken most of my stuff with them. I just had to pack my suitcase and my new computer.

Oh yeah, I didn't mention that in my last post, but about two and a half weeks ago I got a brand new Macbook Pro 15-inch laptop. I'm really really pleased with it and will probably not go back to PC. Sorry Bill.

So Monday morning this amazing machine wouldn't boot up (through no fault of its own, mind you, I messed it up due to ignorance of Mac software) so on the way to the airport I stopped at the Apple store and got it fixed. Funnily enough, the guy who fixed it happened to be someone I was in fourth grade with and haven't seen since. Odd how that works.

Anyway I caught my flight, and since my sister had classes the next day, she got on the exact same plane and turned around back to DC. Mom and I went to Tony's for dinner (great pasta, if you happen to be in Chattanooga). We did some last minute shopping and then Tuesday I moved back to Brethren.

It's been really awesome seeing everybody again, and Dan Rienstra, my roommate, is a really great guy. He had the brilliant idea to buy a very comfortable green folding chair that has made studying so much easier. After Mom left I went to the O-Team (orientation team) skit night and laughed my head off, then re-connected with Liz and Mary Simpson, Ann Jones, Liz Brink, and Alan Cheney.

Classes started on Thursday, continued into Friday, and nothing very eventful or blog-worthy occurred. I'm taking Principles of Management with Dr. Quatro, Intermediate Accounting with Dodson, Doctrine with Kapic, Statistics with Eames, and Microeconomics with Wescher. Fun stuff. Friday night Alan, Liz, Liz B, and I went to go see Scott Pilgrim again, just as good the second time, and then I read a lot of stuff for classes. I continued reading when I woke up and finished just in time not to have anything left to read during the ridiculously cheesy OSHA video we had to watch this morning. Fail.

Anyway, didn't really do much of note today. Hopefully this semester won't be too busy and I'll remember to update more regularly.

As if...

Anyway, arrievederci!