Ok so VCU is officially the place with all the lookalikes. I don't think I've ever seen so many people that look like people I know. And it's not just like one person it's like multiple people. There's about 3 guys that look like David, 4 or 5 guys that look like my brother, 3 or 4 guys that look like Josh, and even a guy that looks like Ben. AHHH!
First I’m going to answer Lizz’s truth or truth question:
>College is most like I expected it to be in that you have total free will. You get to decide when you eat, when you study, when you sleep, when and if you go to class. You get total responsibility of your life and your time. I love that!
>College is least like I expected it to be in that I have way more free time then I ever expected. In high school everyone always told you that you were constantly going to be studying and doing homework, but I have yet to feel like I don’t have enough time to do homework as well as take a nap and then spend an hour or two just lurking around on facebook.
>My biggest relief about college life is the fact that I’m starting to have a group of people I can always hang out with. When I first got here I was really nervous that I wouldn’t ever really get to know anyone except the people I live with. But I’m starting to meet people outside of my suite and outside of the nursing program!
>My biggest annoyance is not being able to sing and listen to my music loud on a daily basis. It drives me crazy! It goes along with not having much privacy, because even when I’m alone in my room I don’t feel comfortable turning my music up too loud or singing really loud because I know the other people in my suite will be able to hear me and probably get annoyed.
You guys have to answer too!!
So I know I've expressed my increasing irritation with my roommate to Lizz, but I figured I should fill you guys all in on that. Don't get me wrong it's not like I hate her, and we certainly get along and talk a lot and have a good time together...but she's just way to intense for one thing and also between her and her best friend, Erica (another nursing student) I basically want to kill myself when I'm around them for too long. They're both so naive, not to mention incredibly, ridiculously conservative and religious. Like right now, Grace is at a Chi Alpha meeting (which is a campus ministry/sorority). This weekend was definitely the turning point in my figuring out that I won't ever be able to be best buddies with these girls. Mainly it's because I had a really good beginning of the weekend hanging out with Kae and her friends and I finally came to the realization that those were the kind of people I wanted to get closer with, not girls like my roommate and her friends.
So this past weekend we had a four day weekend thanks to Labor Day and the fact that I don't have Friday classes. I was slightly skeptical about how I was going to find a way to amuse myself for four days straight. :-S I don't know if any of you guys are having this problem of having incredible amounts of time on your hands, but it's definitely a problem for me. Probably the leading reason for my new obsession with damn Farmville on Facebook. At any rate, Me and Kae had made plans to go to Carytown on Friday afternoon so I could go to this store called Need Supply which sells these amazing jeans called Nudie Jeans that I'm asking for, for Christmas. We braved the Richmond GRTC bus system and bused it out to Carytown successfully (we were very proud of ourselves). Then when we tried to head back to Monroe Park we ended up getting on the wrong bus and ended up in this really high class residential section of the city where all the houses are enormous and have walls and gates in front of the houses and fountains in the front yards. I want to live there. It reminded me of Shaker Heights in Cleveland where my cousins live and where I've been heart set on living for quite awhile now. The bus driver was really nice though when we realized we were on the wrong route and she took us back to Monroe Park, so it was all good.
That evening we decided to join the trendy hipsters of Richmond and go to First Friday on Broad St. First Friday is an event that happens on the first friday of every month and it's when all the art galleries on Broad St. open up for the night to the public, free of admission. There's also lots of little booths set up on the sidewalks with jewelry and food, and also live music. It's really hip and cool and all the people there that aren't college students are like rich, trendy 20 and 30 somethings. Kae and I agreed we're going to go every Friday since we felt so trendy being a part of it. I also met one of Kae's friends, Lauren (she actually had the same back surgery as me, so we bonded over that). Lauren's really nice and Kae, me, and her are considering trying to find an apartment and living together next year. :-D Also while we were at First Friday we ran into some of Kae's upperclassmen friends. I'd met them before-the night I went clubbing with Kae and her friend Sammy. I got back to my dorm around 11:30 and was getting ready to call it a night, when Kae texted me asking if I wanted to go to a party with her, her boyfriend Tyler, and her friend, Andy. The party was actually a pretty small gathering of people at this apartment which was overtop of a 24 hour diner. It was nice and really chill. I got to actually talk to some people and no one was getting drunk. We all had a drink or two and some people were smoking somewhere and we were just listening to music. It was really funn! Then at like 2:00 me, Kae, and Tyler decided to go to the diner and get milkshakes. Let me tell you...that was the best fucking milkshake I'd ever had.
One thing that still ceases to amaze me is the fact that there are policeman everywhere in this city and I have been intoxicated while around them multiple times and I'm not even worried for a second that I'll get in trouble. It's like they kind of expect it of all of us, and honestly in Richmond there's a lot more important things to be concerned about besides drunk college kids. It's just so weird saying hi to a cop on the street while you're completely conscious of being intoxicated. Heehee.
Oh and I also should mention that while I was at that party thing I chatted it up with Kae's friend, Andy, and he is verrrrrrry cute. :-D
To elaborate more on the incompatibility between me and my roommate and her friends is the fact that they don't even curse. They say things like "what the crap" and "poo". I want to kill myself every time I hear one of them say the word "poo"!!! Also they're really religious in the sense that none of them want to have pre-marital sex and Erica informed me the other day that she didn't even kiss her boyfriend until 9 months into the relationship. WTF?!?!? Needless to say, there's no way I am ever going to completely relate to them. My new mission is to spend my time trying to shock them whenever I'm around by telling them about all the wild , raunchy things I've done (even if these adventures are stretching the truth a little ;-P)
Hmm, the only other thing I meant to write about is how I'm eager to find new guy friends in order to focus my attention on. Not even just because I want someone to release all this pent up need for physical stuff. As most of you know I have not talked to Tyler at length or had any real contact with him since he left for college. Since Tyler was the last person for me to be physically or romantically involved with I guess it was natural for me to feel some sort of attatchment to him once I left. Now I realize, as I should have realized ages ago, that he's a total douchebag. And what kills me the most about all this is that I really cared about him, you know? I cared about him as a friend first and foremost and now I feel like I just wasted all this time and energy on someone that probably never took our relationship seriously in the first place. How do you come back from that? How do you make yourself realize that it wasn't a waste of time? And if it really was, how do you make yourself come to terms with that? It sucks. And I just really want to find someone else that I can exert energy on that will NOT end up being a TFRJD (for anyone that does not know that stands for total fucking retard jackass douchebag)!
I hope I didn't bore you guys with this really long, kind of rambly post, but I thought I should let you know what's been going on with me both concerning events as well as stuff I've been thinking about.
Love You Guys!
-Cougzz
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