A Thief in the Dark....

So as you may know i have been having roommate problems...not to the extent of "I hate her/She hates me" but enough that i have contemplated moving ever since i stepped into the place. She is uber nice and we even get along but she is the loudest girl in the whole entire world.

I know that i am not a social butterfly i have come to grips with this. I am shy and am rather comfortable with a small group of friends than a whole lot of them. This girl on the other hand has about a billion friends all of whom have walked in and out of our apartment regulary these past few days.

She loves having people over, and every night for the past week she has cooked "college" cusine (spaghettti, hamburgers...) and invited a lot of her friends over for dinner. I was okay with this because she was nice enough to ask me to join, but at 11pm when no one had left yet i was pretty annoyed.

Needless to say i have contemplated over and over again about what to do with this problem. Move into the freshman dorm and potentially suffer or talk to my roomie and still potentially suffer. She was not the only problem of course, the fire alarm bandit has calmed down since last week but i still feared his return and going to sleep was hard.

I simply was uncomfortable in the room and even the dorm. It was like i was not at peace and no matter how hard i tried to make that room my own...it just wasn't.

Moving into a freshman dorm was out of the question so i began making my presence in the apartment known so my roommates would get the clue that "hey she may be trying to study i should quiet down a little". I know i sound like i am 70 or something but when it comes to my sleep...call me cranky if you want to.

But yesterday after making what was going to be my final check at Housing, i saw an opening for the dorm of my DREAMS. Elliot Hall is his name and i am in love. Elliot Hall is one of the many "learning community" dorms. The University uses some of the dorms to house people with similar interest "The Hippie Dorm (really known as the Enviromental Dorm)" the Spanish Speaking Dorm (all residents have intrest in learning Spanish as a 2nd language) the Pre-Med Dorm, The Music Dorm (music majors that is)...yadda yadda yadda.

Elliot Hall is like the dorm for well...I don't know yet. Someone called it the Indie dorm, and though i don't like labels i am down for Indie. As i stared at the dorm on the list i had no other choice but to take it. I mean it's located right in the heart of campus, i am literally a skip and a hop away from the bookstore/coffee shop and this would kind of solve the roommate problem.

This dorm was once the honors college and has this kind of old school charm that i like. It's made entirely of brick, and has several secet gardens located on it's street. It's absolutely beautiful, is a NON freshman dorm, and i would have my very on room and it was cheaper than the dorm that was driving me crazy. Plus the housing guy kept threating me that if i came back later someone might have taken the dorm.

So with that i signed off to a my brand new dorm....I couldn't even wait to check out the new place and even though i had a class yesterday afternoon i snuck by to check it out. It's amazing, built in bookshelves, window with amazing sunlight, and a sink plus the room is huge...and quiet. I share a connecting bathroom with one girl with an odd name but who is nice.

Everyone i passed on the hall was extremely friendly and i could hear the sounds of Bob Marley and Nirvana as i passed other rooms. I felt comfortable and at peace. There are all these study rooms decorated with a different theme, kids lined the hallway discussing books and politics, and the stair wells are painted artistically. YEAH!!!

Of course i only had 24 hours to move out of the old dorm which the housing guy kept emphasizing. So my mom jetted up here early this morning before the sun came up and like thieves in the night we moved. It was the quietest we have ever moved in my whole entire life and my roomy didn't wake up at all. Clean Break.

It took us longer than ususal to move my things in this hall and for a while my things were just sitting in the lobby. But with some help from some very helpful people we managed to carry everything upstairs to my 3rd Casa. I have to take pictures of this room...it's amazing, and i am hella happy.

I can not help but see the connection of this move to the one i made three years ago from Philadelphia. Of course this move was not the crushing realization of tuition prices but rather a move to a peaceful state of mind. I feel like in my last year i have come full circle and it's weirdly...refreshing.

Of course i am now exhausted out of my mind from all the moving but i have a butt load of stuff to read for English.

Today i talked to an extremely hott guy over a book (Into The Wild) that i had my nose in. I was curled up in a chair waiting for a class to let and decided i should start reading a book that i have to finish by next week. I pretty much joined this class because of Into The Wild, the story is pretty compelling and the teacher isn't so bad either.

So as i was sitting there reading my book some dude passed me and stopped to say he had read it before and that it was really good. Usually i would have just smiled and went back to reading but for some reason i was feeling brave and i said something back. It was small chit chat but that's pretty huge to me.

Time to finish some homework it's been a long day.