elanya

I have almost everything unpacked except for books and knicknacks. I don' have all my furniture exactly where I want it yet, which is part of the reason I'm holding off on those two things. I have all my clothes put away. Did I mention that i have two walk in closets? Yeah, that's pretty sweet, especially considering how much costuming stuff I have. Plus the space is nice for storing sewing crap.

Today I actually went to campus. For those of you who don't know, the A&M campus is *huge*. I had to jump through a couple of hoops for ISS so that I could get the blocks removed so that I could register and the department could process my fellowship and such. I have to pay my tuition before Wednesday. this will be an adventure as I've lost my red folder, probably at Dina's, and it has my checks in it. eep!

In any case, the bus route is not too painful, and there is a stop right outside my house. During the school year, buses will run every 18 min, which will be sweet. Atm they run every half hour, which is still a lot better than some other places I've lived.

After I got home, i went and got some more groceries. I forgot margarine *again* though, which was the whole point of the exercise! Well, half the point. I'll just go back - it isn't far. The round-trip experience took half an hour or so. And then, I came home and went swimming! The pool here isn't very deep - it ranges from 3 to 5 feet, but it is very nice. It isn't a standard apartment pool by any means, and as quite clean while not being painfully chlorinated. i can see myself spending lots of time there....

And now dinner and game :)

Of course, this all has to be considered in the context of last week, and this past weekend. I'll give a quick point form recap.
- Tuesday-Wednesday: spent time waiting in an apartment with no power/ac hoping to see movers show up, after having left Dina's number as a contact number. nothing.
-Wednesday afternoon - finally get ahold of movers. Say they can come Friday. Freak out because my plane leaves the next day, but then Dina says she can pretend to be me. Problem seemingly solved.
-Wednesday night - Britain thwarts terrorist plot causing security at US airports to tighten.
-Thursday AM - arrive ten mi too late to check my baggage and catch my plane, due to increase in security. Book new flight leaving Saturday, and pay through the nose for it.
-Friday - Movers are three hours late, but things are loaded.
-Saturday AM - get to the airport in plenty of time. Worry about missing my connection in Houston because the plane was late leaving Charlotte. have to go through a second security check where they threated to take away *my asthma inhaler and aerochamber*.
-Saturday PM - Airline loses my luggage, tell me that can deliver it and that it should be in later that day.
- Arrive at apartment complex, sign my lease. Nice lady allows me to Paypal all my bills because my checks are in my checked luggage (ha!). she also took me to a cell company so that i could get a phone - this plan thwarted by my lack of a driver's license, so that they want to charge me a 500$ cash deposit. Yeah, right.
- find out that i can't really access the internet from the apartment complex computer because it has ridiculous protection stuff on it. rent a wireless card to access the wireless network. The card doesn't work.
- on the plus side, learn that I am right cross the street from a bank, grocery store and Walmart, and that there is a dance studio in the strip mall right beside the complex. Get a movie and a pay-as-you-go phone at Walmart, some food at the store. Find out the phone can't call or receive calls from Canada. Leave contact number for moving company. Watch pale Rider, sleep on floor in cloths because no luggage.
Sunday - office is closed, cannot use any internet, cannot get phone number for airport, etc. txt rob, who sends me important numbers. Spend all day writing. Buy an oven pizza and a travel toothbrush kit. Discover that my oven doesn't work. Listen to the first 5 eps of Battle Star Gallactica, season 2, because I don't have the divx codec. Spend another night sleeping on the floor.

Monday - call airport again, they promise to bring stuff. Get wireless hooked up and paid for. Get a new oven. Hear from movers. Do a dance of joy!

Yes, I have my stuff. Yay! *Dance* All is well. I am going to finish unpacking, have a shower, and eat pizza, not necessarily in that order.

All my stuff is loaded onto a truck, and I should see it all on Sunday, yayyy!

I went to Mike's Deli for lunch and talked to the people there. I don't know their names, but they know mine :o Also i was stung by a bee this morning, which is my own fault for pretty much leaning on the poor thing, after I'd petted it a bit. It was dying. It got me good once, and the other two times were mostly just annoying. I've never been stung before, and I am glad to say that it did not hurt as much as I'd feared. Also I probably deserved it, so I'm not really in a position to complain. Poor bee :/

Goddamned terrists!

Usualy, greenville airport is very lax, ad the idea that you need to show up an hour early is kind of stupid. It is smaller than the Fredericton airport, folks. Teensy. So, we showed up about 20-25 min before the flight left. But no, not today. Today, there is this bullshit! Asshats trying to blow up planes a such. They were crazy hardcore at the airport, because, well, them's the rules. So even though it was still there, and we could see it, when I got there (in fact they werwe boarding when we arrived), I missed it. It sin't as bad as it would be if I were flying to the UK, mind, but now you can't even have a bottle of water on the plane, or liquid makeup or anything that is not 100% solid.

This is good and bad.

Bad, because I did have to rebook my ticket in the end.

Good, because now I can supervie the move myself, and the actual travel time will be less.

Bad because my new flight leavses at 5:30, so I have to be at the airport at 4:30.

Good because there are a few things I need from Greenville still, and now I can get them.

It's a mixed bag, but really... it is only money. That's it, just money. The time, the inconvenience, is not so bad. I am not going to starve to death or go without a roof over my head, or anything like that. It is not the end of the world. Life goes on.

Now, I am going to sleep some more, maybe play with the kitties, and go run some errands later on.

Oh, also, Danielle got some of her CS people to e-mail me, and I noticed some new faces in LJ land this am, so hello :) I'm loking forward to meeting folks once I get in.

Of course, the movers never came, and never called. Apparently, despite the fact that I called the dispatch line and left two messages with Dina's number *and* e-mailed (replied, in fact to her e-mail asking for a contact number) the agent with whom 'd made the booking, they didn't have it changed in the system. So they've been 'trying to contact me' for days, at the wrong number. I tried to get Hazel to check that number for mesages for me, but she couldn't. Anyway. I finally got ahold of them. And they are coming on Friday. This caused me a huge panic, as I am leaving here tomorrow, at 7AM (but not getting in to CS until 10, oh joy of joys).

Fortunately, Dina is awesome, and when she came to chekc how things were going and found me an utter wreck, she said she would deal with things for me on Friday. So I owe her huge. I am mostly destresed now after hugs, kittens, pool, and a nap. She will probably be home soon, and then I will have something to eat other than toast and an ice cream sundae.Oh and peanuts, whihch was the only food at my house. You know, the place with no power or air conditioning, etc, where I've been staying the past two days in the hopes of seeing the moving truck appear.... -_-

So now I am just tired, and hungry, and not looking forward to tomorrow's day full of airports. The longest stayover is in Houston, I think. Hopefully nothing will get stolen this time :p Oh, and I am spending tomorrow night at a HoJo's, because they were the cheapest place I could book, for 7-$/stay -_-. And I can get in to my new place on Friday. And my stuff should be arriving Sunday.

I'm tired and whiney, but soon I will be at my new home, looking for new people and new adventures. I wish I were more excited about any of this. :/

Now I am going to kill customer service people.

Last ught, I wad the first disc of the boxed set of Boondocks, which I enjoyed. Dina and matt, as per usual, fell asleep watching stuff. My movers are supposed to be coming this morning, but I'm nit sure when. I was gogn to go swimming and such with Dina this AM - we will see if that happens or not, I guess - I do hear voices upstairs now, at least!

I had a tooth dream last night, kinda. I was at some strange aromatheraphy function for people with LUPUS. I had a soft spot on one of my gums, and also a part of the enamel on one of my other teeth had flaked off, revealing white spongy suff beneath. I ept thinking that I should be at this retreat thing because I didn't belone (I think it was a LARP event of some kind, maybe?). We were all given three bowls of smelly things to mix based on different themes. The oils looked like BPAL bottles. I had a thing of clove scented stuff, somethig else which may have been oragne and/or cranberry, and one that was supposed to mell like the sea, which was salt and tiny tiny bits of dried caviar. I mixed them in a bowl, hoping that it would calm me down and I could stop freaking out an being bitchy about my tooth. I kept thinking that damn, I really should call a dentist or something.

I think I am a little stressed about moving! The last thing I heard from the appartment people was that they hadn't got my application fees. This makes me a little wary... I hope it will all get sorted out, and soon -_-

I'm going to go brush my teeth :V

Today I worked for about four hours packing stuff - I packed almu clothes, most of my books, all my linens, and some other sundry items. I have to get the rest of my books (about a box, depending on whether the sizes are such that I can fit them all in one box, my kitchen stuff, bathroom stuff, and the rest of my bedroom odds and ends. I need more boxes, and probably more pacing tape, to make this feasible. Oh, also my sewing stuff that isn't pre-packaged.

Tomorrow, however, I think we are going to the beach! Yay beach! i have yet to actually be to the beach in all my time living in NC, which is just ridiculous. i mean, it isn't convenient for me, to get to, really, but on the other hand, it is one of the few things that 9allegedly) make living in NC worthwhile.

I don't think it will take me all that long to pack the rest of my things,either. If I can get all the things I need, Sunday and Monday should give me plenty of time. Of course, this is all extra fun because there is no power (no lights, no AC!) at said apartment. Its an Adventure ;) Actaully I get lots of naural light so its all good.

Anyway, I may or may not be around more this week, we shall have to see :)

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...So really, my life is just a mass of chaos, as ever.

...eventually. I have now sent the rest of my stuff to Texas for immigration. i am worried because I haven't heard anything back from the department yet though and I need to send a copy of a letter I don't actually have to the ISS folks. Hopefully it won't matter too much in the end. But I would really like to hear from the department. So, things I still need to do are: find a place in Texas, book tickets to Greenville and figure out how exactly I am going to move from Point A to Point B. Details, details... *sigh* Dina said I could probably stay with her while I'm in Greenville, although it seems I will probably just miss tsiankiio and justnukeit, which is a shame :/ Looking at dates though, hmm, maybe not - we'll see!

I am going to e-mail Dina back now at least and set that up. then I have to fill out some more stuff to get quotes from moving companies. What I really want to do is write this afternoon, though, or else dance. I had a great time at last night's dance show, as well as hanging out with shanmonster last night and this morning. I hope she found Leslie alright!

I also got to see there Lord of the Rings stage show yesterday with dad and Jennifer, which was really awesome. It is a shame that it didn't get the acclaim it deserved.

Alright, off to be productive and creative :)

It probably shouldn't have been a priority, but I knew that if I didn't get my weekly installment of Pieces out before I left, I'd *definitely* fall behind again. So it has just been posted over at measured_words.

Now, I have to:
-shower
-take clothes from dryer
-clean fridge
-clean bathroom
-junk shower curtain

Just enough to make sure there won't be anything scary growing in said places when I come back.

Also, I was going to ask someone to check my mail for me while I was away, but forgot. meh :p

Things to do in the AM:
breakfast
call taxi
box up hammy
double check carryon, etc

okay, off I go :o