It's nice to have my own place. It's nice not to have hair in the bathroom sink. It's nice not to have crust around the lip of my toothpaste tube. It's nice not to feel obligated to fold my underwear. It's nice to eat at my computer desk. It's nice to choose my own activities. It's nice to have the quiet. It's nice to pick what food I want to buy. It's nice not to deal with annoying cabinets. It's nice to have a magnetic fridge door. It's nice to be able to leave whenever I want without having to wait for anyone else. It's nice to have long breaks between classes. It just is.
Thursday means it was another day when class didn't start until 3:00 this afternoon, so I got some homework done. I can't decide if I like the college system of knowing most if not all of your reading assignments and work in advance. On the one hand, you can get it done, particularly if you know you'll be out of town or you want to go to a sports game or just don't want to have to do it over the upcoming weekend. On the other hand, there's never not something practical and productive you should be doing.
At around 2:30, I stepped outside to go wait by the shuttle stop. To my shock, there was an entire carnival thing set up in the street right in front of Blue Square. The road had been blocked off! Luckily, I had plenty of time to get where I needed to be. I wasn't sure where the shuttle stop had been temporarily moved to or if it was running at all, so I decided to walk up the hill. It took me about fifteen minutes, and then a little longer to make it to my class in the back corner of campus, but I made it with four minutes to spare.
I'm liking my lifespan development class. I got all five or six questions on my pre-test correct. It would be nice if that pattern continued.
Two girls from Lee's Marketplace delivered the groceries we'd ordered online the other day. Although, I guess they don't deliver to Blue Square rooms. Not directly, anyway. I met them outside. Boy, was it windy! The carnival had disappeared, but road blockers were blowing all over the place! I took a few groceries and used my elevator key to help the Lee's deliverers get up to our room. Demetria made it back just as they were leaving.
We unpacked the food and then ate some of it while we watched a couple of shows. Demetria is an anime fan, so she's been showing me one about a girl who becomes a land god(dess) when the former land god abandons his duties and hears that she's been wandering with no place to stay. His old familiar spirit - he's part fox - is trying to teach her how to fulfill the duties of a land god, but they don't get along terribly well all the time. Possibly because to undo the connection between the familiar and his old master, she had to kiss him against his will and it basically made him her slave. Her grumpy but fiercely loyal pyromaniac slave.
Thus far she's tried to juggle godly duties while attending high school, met a pop star with crow wings, and been accidently betrothed to a snake. Anime isn't exactly my thing so I don't think I really "get" it, but it's interesting in its way nonetheless.
