Truth or Truth: In what way is college most and least like you expected it to be? What is your biggest relief about college life? What is your biggest annoyance so far?
At any rate, what’s up with me these days… I finished putting up the last of my posters today! I also bought those “Wall Pop” things, like the big colorful shapes you stick up on the wall? I got them in blue and orange, since that’s my room’s color theme… I think they brighten up the room a lot! Now I just want to get a large standing lamp, so we don’t have to use to overhead fluorescent light as often, and maybe a second fan (although I’m not sure that would be worth it, since it’s already starting to cool down here). In other room-décor news, as all of you know already, I got a fish! Actually we, as in Reed and I, got a fish, but he’s living here for now. I really adore him, it’s kind of funny… well I’ll just tell you the whole story.
We decided, for our nine month anniversary, to get a fish as just like a cute thing to do together, you know? So we went out to the pet store in Christiansburg (where the Target and grocery store and everything is) to have a look around. At first we were thinking a goldfish… they had really cute normal-looking ones, and some kinda cool calico ones, and some pretty badass black goldfish even. We knew we didn’t want a tank or anything if we could avoid it, like just a standard fish bowl would be the easiest in the dorms, so we got to talking to one of the employees about whether or not we should just go with the standard goldfish, in that sort of environment. He said that a goldfish would actually be unlikely to do well in a fish bowl, because they’re really dirty fish and so they’re better suited to an oxygenated tank… which, you know, I always kept goldfish in bowls when I was a kid and they lived for, like, years (at least until Meghan killed that one… :P), but we definitely wanted to play it safe, so the pet store guy suggested a beta fish. He said that they’re really hardy and do really well in bowls, so went over to check them out. I actually hadn’t even noticed them when we first were looking around at all the fish because they were each in their own little individual cup (because they have really long, pretty fins, they have to be kept away from other fish so that their fins don’t get nipped and nibbled at), but there were so many really pretty ones to choose from! It came down to one that was all maroon, one that was, like, electric blue fading into dark blue, and the one we chose, which is purple and red. I even think he looks like a Vergil! So we picked out Vergil, and got some red and magenta colored rocks to complement his color scheme, got a sunken pirate ship and a little plastic plant for decoration, got some water cleaner and some beta food, and we were all set! The guy who was helping us said we don’t even need a snail to clean the bowl, because betas aren’t that dirty, though Reed wants to get one anyway, just for fun, and name it Homer (we have to wait on that though, because if we got the snail when the bowl is perfectly clean it’d probably starve to death). The only downside is that betas don’t get along with other betas, so we couldn’t get two, like we were thinking of doing with the goldfish. But still, I totally love Vergil and I don’t think we could have gotten a more awesome fish… he seems really happy.
In other news… it’s been a pretty quiet weekend. Friday, Reed and I just hung out around the dorms and went to Gobblerfest for a while, which is like the annual activities fair where all the clubs and organizations put out booths and stuff. We went over the BreakZone (which was open extra late because of Gobblerfest), which is where we have all our pool, darts, bowling, table tennis, etc, and played ping-pong for a really long time… that was fun. I hadn’t been over there before, so it was cool to check it out at least. Saturday night we ended up spending playing cards with V.J., Reed’s roommate… we considered going out, but I dunno, it just didn’t seem that appealing. Cards was really really fun though… after we finished up we did go out to meet up with David for a while, to smoke hookah and stuff… it was pretty lame. Like not lame-lame, like there were tons of people there and they were all having a really good time, but lame for us, because, like, I dunno, all those people just seem so cheesy and fake. Once again, Reed and I just ended up talking to each other about how weird everyone else is… we were out in front of D2, which is like our largest dining hall, and there were a bunch of different groups of students, including ours, sitting at the tables out there, and people would randomly start chanting “Let’s go Hokies” and stuff like that, and I was like “What the fuck, it’s two in the morning and nothing about this situation calls for school spirit, seriously!” So we bailed on that pretty quickly… David’s such a socialite, about a million people came up to him and were like “Hey, didn’t I meet you at a party the other night?” and he just kept saying things like “I respect that” and “sick” and referring to people as “playa” and “bud”. I just can’t stand the smarmy-ness of it all, you know? At least Tyler wasn’t there.
So that’s been my weekend. So far I’ve managed to not get anything done today, which I’m sure I’ll regret tomorrow, but whatever. Tech’s football season opens next weekend at Alabama, which should be exciting… potentially devastating… but then the weekend after is the Marshall game, which I’m still waiting to see if I’ve got a ticket for. Nothing in particular is going on this week… I’m hoping I get more into the rhythm of things. I’m trying to get my family to come out and visit sometime in the next month, so hopefully that’ll work out… my birthday’s coming up, which I’m excited for… so that’s my life right now. I’m thinking of trying to find some sort of activity to get involved with, just to give me something to do… maybe an intramural sport, like putt-putt tournament or bowling or something :P. I could definitely do that. At any rate, we’ll see. So you all get back to me about that Truth or Truth, and how your first real weekend at college went!
Also, Chrissy, I commented your last post, it just doesn't show up on the page. You have to click "view comment". Haha :P.
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