Board

It's 2 1/2 weeks into the semester, and life is already getting a little hectic. Not in a bad way, necessarily...but weekends are stuffed with activity and homework doesn't end until late at night right now. As soon as I get into a better routine - and get less sick - that might improve somewhat.

I surprisingly have very little to talk about right now. How weird is that? I guess I could talk about our whiteboard...on each door to a dorm room, there's a nice whiteboard on which we can write whatever we like. It can be pretty useful for leaving notes for people who aren't in their rooms, keeping lists, taking surveys, etc. One board tends to have full poems transcribed on it. Another is currently listing the number of grad schools to which the room's occupants have been accepted. Another still has some nice drawings of Kirk and Spock.

My roomie and I tend to use it as a log of all funny quotes said in the general vicinity. Usually, if a conversation goes on long enough, someone will say something strange, at which point one of us will get up and head out the door to the whiteboard so we can write it down. Of course, when we're at the Hoch eating dinner, it's a little more difficult to remember the quote, so I tend to enter it into my phone so I'll remember it later.

It was quite depressing, really; when we left for break, my roommate and I erased our board, which had probably at least 20 strange quotes, inside jokes, etc. collected on it. There were drawings from my sister, too...she likes doodling with whiteboard marker on anything that can erase, so our mirrors and windows and the front of our microwave usually have a little bit of added pizzazz.( Right now our microwave says "Mmm...toasty!" Of course, as my sister recently discovered, the side of the microwave doesn't erase as well as the front...we now have two faint disembodied arms drawn there.)

Back to the subject. When we left for the winter, our board was emptied. So, when we got back, it was depressingly without quotes or other such oddities for a good week. But fortunately, my classmates are wonderfully strange and happy people. I'd say that by Sunday our board was back to its normal level of insanity.


What else, what else...right now I'm pretty excited about starting work with the Homework Hotline on Sunday. A bunch of my friends are starting clubs that I may talk about next week. I'll be more interesting soon, I promise.