August 31, 2010 10:00 AM

Good morning!

After work yesterday, I went to hang out for about half an hour with some of the Orientation Mentors (who were taking a break from the freshmen). Then I went home and found out one of my roommates (Annie - that's what I'll call her from now on) had moved back in- most of the way.

SHE HAS SO MUCH STUFF!!! It's a good thing I gave her and Margie the big room because I don't think those boxes would have even fit in my closet. She had to pull the doors off in order to get them into hers! And those are just her winter clothes!

I ate some of the gazpacho (delicious!) and did some knitting. The only thing I can really knit is a small flower that generally turns out ugly because I'm using a multi-colored yarn that makes it look quite motley and cheap. But they are super useful for packing fragile things into boxes when I mail people things, so I continue my knitting attempts in hope that I might get good at it.

At 5pm, I went to the freshman BBQ - which really was just burgers and hot dogs on a grill with some chips and cola. But we have a lot of fun - I played Super Ninja Game Time, Kan Jam, and talked with a lot of people. I learned how to throw a frisbee correctly (I used to just toss them like I would throw a ball, or maybe vertically underarm), and I made some new friends!

Then, I went back to the dorms with the kiddos and played in a 13 people round of Uno - which, I might add, is not really possible with one deck unless you remove the drawing behind the draw-four wilds and give each player 6 cards instead of seven.

And then we began to play Mafia - rather loudly. In fact, I'm pretty sure that we kept the whole floor up for the next ~4 hours playing mafia. We did not stop. Oh, wow. Man, I was especially loud since I was 'god' and had to talk over everyone else. I was yelling, clapping, dancing, falling over, etc - just to keep the game going and keep the kids in the game.

And I think we had fun. I mean, I had fun, and we went for four hours so I probably wasn't the only one. It did mean, though, that I left at midnight and walked back to the apartment, finally hitting the hay at 12:30 PM. And they were still playing when I left.

I got five hours of sleep - urk! - and scurried my way on over to the library to start another long day!

I get off at 11am to go to the freshmen brunch to talk about the Honors Service Committee (of which I am head), but I'll probably have to talk about Complementary Learning too (since I am the Comp L adviser and the committee revolves around it). Then I get to come back to work at 1pm (hopefully eating my lunch before then) and work until 5pm - and move four TV carts to the Gordon Field House, praying that their rickety frames don't give out and cost me thousands of dollars.

Just another day in paradise! :p

You all have a great day now!