Oh God, I am really in college!

So, here I am... the first morning after the first night in my new dorm! Honestly, I had expected some crappy little dark room, with nasty walls and no space and old furniture. But when I got here day before yesterday, I found that room 840 has an awesome view out the (huge) windows, plenty of space for all my stuff, new furniture (and brand-new bathrooms!), and... ok, the walls are a little dirty/slimy, but that can be fixed.

My roommate is really, really nice, and I feel like we'll be able to get along well. :) If anything, we've both been a little exhausted whenever we've been around each other so far, which has led to a prolonged silence or two during dorm-time. But I'm sure that will figure itself out soon, and we're planning on decorating our ceiling together (!!), which should be good for us.

From my window, I can see the Astronomy building, complete with huge telescopes on the roof, the state Capitol building, and the Student Union (waaay in the distance). The stadium is past the Union, but I can't see it from my room. That thing is ridiculous.

I printed out like, a hundred pictures before I left home, and after a ton of tack and tape and frustration, I got most of them up on my walls (above my bed, which is back in the wall, and over my desk). I also have a selection of Chazzz's artwork, The Academy Is... and Across the Universe posters, the Little Black Angels thing Twinkxx made me, and a Lafayette varsity letter which makes me seem well, intense.

I feel like this is a place I can deal with for the next eight months. It's a place where I already feel comfortable enough to sleep, to blog on here, and I think I'll be able to chill and have new friends over and... okay, not study maybe, but what else is new? I'm walking around the campus all day today, walking my classes and getting a feel for the attitude of the people walking the sidewalks with me, getting used to the intense heat and, worse yet, humidity. (But, luckily, I have the most intense AC on the planet which can chill the room to 61 degrees if we so desire!)

So, things may change, but they're good for now. I've never felt such an intense desire to start fresh. I want to pretend like much of the last ten years in my life didn't happen, all the bad stuff that happened during that time. And I think that's just what I'm gonna do. :)