Ok so I finally got to move into my apartment. My friends that live nearby have been very generous and have been helping me out a lot. I thought I should start off this rant on a good note. So there is. Now for the bad. Someone stole my money. Someone stole my freakin' LAUNDRY money dang it! I realize that it was only 2 or 3 dollars worth of quarters but still. I don't have a job yet and I don't have very much money so every cent counts!
Anyway here's what happened: I was doing laundry yesterday at the laundrymat over by the married/boy apartments (the brown ones with the big letters on them) and I was coming back with my friend Kristen to put my clothes in the dryer. I put the finished load into the dryer and pull my sack of quarters of my hamper (that I had left there btw) and put a quarter into the machine. Well I didn't want to take the money back with me because 1) I was wearing my sweatpants and my pockets were already full (and pulling my pants down) and 2) I was sure that if I took it back with me to the apartment, I'd put them down somewhere and forget to take them back with me thus making me walk all the way back blah blah blah. So I put the sack of quarters back into my hamper and tucked it under my box of fabric softener so it would just be sitting there in broadsight. I come back sometime later and my money was gone. There was no one around so I couldn't ask around to see if anyone saw anything.
I called Kristen (who was back at her apartment at this point) and asked her is she saw me take the money back with me (yes I am that absent minded...) and she say that she thought she saw me put the money back in my hamper. It was at this point that I was extremely hacked. Well I didn't want to jump to conclusions so I go back to my apartment and look around to see if I really did bring it back by mistake. Conclusion: No. I did in fact leave it where I thought I had earlier and someone took it! Now I was really, REALLY mad. Fortunately Kristen was kind enough to lend me some more money so I could finish drying my clothes.
Ok people, it's soapbox time. I do realize that despite all the signs on that place saying that it's only for students and faculty, anyone could have walked in off the street. If that was the case, he/she has issues. If it was a student...well if this is a habit of yours, I hope you get caught. Not just because I'm hacked off at you but maybe when you finally get caught in the act, you'll realize what you're doing is WRONG. I usually don't play this card because I feel that it's a tad bit self-righteous but I think it's appropriate for this situation: I go to a Christian school and yet I can't trust anyone not to go through my things and take something. It wasn't like I just put the money on a table with a giant lit sign saying "PLEASE TAKE THIS!" Yes, it wasn't very much money but it's the principle of the situation. I don't care how lazy or broke or whatever you are, taking something that is not yours is not only wrong, it's rude and selfish!
*insert exhale here*
Okay...I'm done now.
Misfit
Memoirs of a Nomad
For those of you who are STILL wondering about my living situation...here's the latest update:
I was supposed to....*SOB*....ahem...supposed to move into my apartment tomorrow. However, I got yet another email from the powers that be/the people who have control over housing.
Actually here's the entire story for those of you who have no idea what's going on:
Ok so I was originally planned to move into my apartment the first weekend of the school year. However, the girl who lives next to me had her apartment flooded via broken water heater. So her apartment was ruined and the people who were next door, cleaning my apartment, left the door open. So the girl (who shall now be known as Mystery Girl B) saw the empty apartment and decided to just move in without telling anyone. Random note: Mystery Girl B, if you just happen to be reading this....I realize that having your apartment flooded is definately NOT cool but why? WHYYYY did you do that?! ok random note over. Well I was under the impression that they (the higher powers) told the girl to go somewhere else until her place was fixed but apparently she's been there this entire time....*eye twitch* Also, she's been using the energy and utilities that was already in my family's name. *more eye twitch* Anyway, so the flooding damaged the wall that our two apartments share so the maintinance peoples have been working on fixing that. *fasts forward back to the present* I was supposed to move in tomorrow. I get an email saying that the fixing of the wall is taking longer than expected and that it'll might be Friday before it's fixed. Fortunately, they've arranged for me to live in the Heritage Hotel until the 15th so that made me feel a little better.
So the first week of school, I lived in my house. The second week of school, I lived on the floors and/or couches of my friends in the mighty fortress of Shores. This week, I'll be in the luxurious house 'o Heritage. Next week, who knows...I could be sleeping the Benson balcony or under the bleachers of the football field. Either way, comrades, this nomad's journey isn't over yet.
Scene: Misfit dons a samurai outfit and slowly (but surely) rides off into the sunset on the back of a giant panda, hair blowing in a non-existent wind filled with cherry blossoms as dramatic music that's probably been stolen from some Jet Li film plays in the background.
*DBZ music burst forth from nowhere* Will our heroine ever find a place of her own or will she be forced to wander in solitude the rest of her days? Stay tuned!
Samurai Misfit
I was supposed to....*SOB*....ahem...supposed to move into my apartment tomorrow. However, I got yet another email from the powers that be/the people who have control over housing.
Actually here's the entire story for those of you who have no idea what's going on:
Ok so I was originally planned to move into my apartment the first weekend of the school year. However, the girl who lives next to me had her apartment flooded via broken water heater. So her apartment was ruined and the people who were next door, cleaning my apartment, left the door open. So the girl (who shall now be known as Mystery Girl B) saw the empty apartment and decided to just move in without telling anyone. Random note: Mystery Girl B, if you just happen to be reading this....I realize that having your apartment flooded is definately NOT cool but why? WHYYYY did you do that?! ok random note over. Well I was under the impression that they (the higher powers) told the girl to go somewhere else until her place was fixed but apparently she's been there this entire time....*eye twitch* Also, she's been using the energy and utilities that was already in my family's name. *more eye twitch* Anyway, so the flooding damaged the wall that our two apartments share so the maintinance peoples have been working on fixing that. *fasts forward back to the present* I was supposed to move in tomorrow. I get an email saying that the fixing of the wall is taking longer than expected and that it'll might be Friday before it's fixed. Fortunately, they've arranged for me to live in the Heritage Hotel until the 15th so that made me feel a little better.
So the first week of school, I lived in my house. The second week of school, I lived on the floors and/or couches of my friends in the mighty fortress of Shores. This week, I'll be in the luxurious house 'o Heritage. Next week, who knows...I could be sleeping the Benson balcony or under the bleachers of the football field. Either way, comrades, this nomad's journey isn't over yet.
Scene: Misfit dons a samurai outfit and slowly (but surely) rides off into the sunset on the back of a giant panda, hair blowing in a non-existent wind filled with cherry blossoms as dramatic music that's probably been stolen from some Jet Li film plays in the background.
*DBZ music burst forth from nowhere* Will our heroine ever find a place of her own or will she be forced to wander in solitude the rest of her days? Stay tuned!
Samurai Misfit
School, The Weather, and Other Random Updates
Hey everybody. It's the second week of school (for me anyway). The first week was suspiciously easy-going...so now I'm just waiting for an explosion of stress to come like a thief in the night. I'm a fifth year senior. I know it's coming...
Anyway, my parents quit their jobs and are now in Michigan looking at more houses. Meanwhile, I'm here, living off the couches of my generous dorm friends. No, I'm not moved into my apartment (for those of you who somehow didn't see the previous sentence). I have to wait until their done fixing it up...so about a week or so I guess.
Really random note: the spellchecker on Fire Fox is trying to tell me that "didn't" is not a word. Last time I checked, "didn't" was a contraction (the formation of a new word from one or more individual words) that stands for "did not." First they say Pluto isn't (oh look another contraction) a planet and now this. What's this world coming to? What's next? Is the History Channel suddenly going to decide that Aristotle wasn't a philosopher?? Pfft. Pfft I say!
Anyhoo, school is going pretty well so far. French is (for me) a lot less heart attack inducing than Spanish was. Also, I'm finally in a Bible class I enjoy (Pentateuch was ok - my friends were in it and Dr. Manor was hilarious). And for the coup d’état (ooo fancy!): my new laptop finally made a peace treaty with the wireless on campus (insert much rejoicing here).
Ok now for the weather: RAIN. Why? Probably because of Hurricane Gustav, but this is Arkansas so who knows where it came from/where it's going/how long it's staying/when it's coming back.
Etc.: I have added yet another ingenious t-shirt to my collection!
More Etc.: I'm still looking for a job...that's not Aramark.
Bit o' Wisdom for the Day: "Do not want others to know what you have done? Better not have done it anyways." ~ Chinese Proverb
Misfit
Anyway, my parents quit their jobs and are now in Michigan looking at more houses. Meanwhile, I'm here, living off the couches of my generous dorm friends. No, I'm not moved into my apartment (for those of you who somehow didn't see the previous sentence). I have to wait until their done fixing it up...so about a week or so I guess.
Really random note: the spellchecker on Fire Fox is trying to tell me that "didn't" is not a word. Last time I checked, "didn't" was a contraction (the formation of a new word from one or more individual words) that stands for "did not." First they say Pluto isn't (oh look another contraction) a planet and now this. What's this world coming to? What's next? Is the History Channel suddenly going to decide that Aristotle wasn't a philosopher?? Pfft. Pfft I say!
Anyhoo, school is going pretty well so far. French is (for me) a lot less heart attack inducing than Spanish was. Also, I'm finally in a Bible class I enjoy (Pentateuch was ok - my friends were in it and Dr. Manor was hilarious). And for the coup d’état (ooo fancy!): my new laptop finally made a peace treaty with the wireless on campus (insert much rejoicing here).
Ok now for the weather: RAIN. Why? Probably because of Hurricane Gustav, but this is Arkansas so who knows where it came from/where it's going/how long it's staying/when it's coming back.
Etc.: I have added yet another ingenious t-shirt to my collection!
More Etc.: I'm still looking for a job...that's not Aramark.
Bit o' Wisdom for the Day: "Do not want others to know what you have done? Better not have done it anyways." ~ Chinese Proverb
Misfit
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