Started college classes today. My first day of school, outside the home, in eight years. Wow. Yesterday, I had orientation, and am just now getting over the overwhelmed feeling.

So, the events of the last couple days...

Yesterday, my mother and I had to go clothes shopping for me, since I looked in my drawers and went, "Oh lovely! I have no decent clothes." Literally. I had three shirts that could maybe pass as decent, two pairs of jeans, a black pair for work and a blue pair for everything else, no matching socks (they sort of disappear one by one), and that was about it. So, $260 later, I have several shirts, a jacket, a couple pairs of decent jeans, a skirt and shoes. Yay.

Orientation started at 2pm, but I got there early to get my student ID (a.k.a., mug shot), and to see if I could get a ten ride bus ticket thing for going from school to work. Turned out, they didn't have the right bus tickets, so I'd have to come back later. Lovely. I was supposed to go back there today, but was sidetracked by a very amusing Patrick who decided it was necessary to stand outside my last class for half an hour and wait for me. Anyway, orientation was rather pointless and boring. The welcoming speeches were long winded and put most of us to sleep. I probably would have been sound ass asleep by the end of it if I hadn't been stuck between two babbling girls from the Bronx chattering about their diet pills. Really, I don't care, and please, don't expect me to.

But, after the speech and the "head count" for Freshman Seminar, Patrick hunted me down and we wandered around campus for a while, getting to know our way around. The student lounge/union was pretty nice. Ping pong, a pool table, lots of seats and an arcade... what else do you need? The gym is about worthless. It doesn't open until noon, and is only open until about seven. They suck just a little.

So, that was Orientation. I found out that, besides Patrick, there are about four other people from work going there. That's somehow comforting. I was a little afraid there wouldn't be anybody I knew there.

On to today...

I got to the school at about 6:30 since I have to go in when my dad goes to work. After finding where all my classes were, I hunted down my Math professor who had just gotten there to tell him I hadn't gotten my math book yet. He very cheerily said that it was fine, just to see him after class so he could run off the homework for me.

To be perfectly honest, I was really dreading my first class. 8:30 in the morning, I had math. I suck in math. I'm a complete and total dunce when it comes to math. But, my professor was excellent. Kept everything upbeat with a sense of humor to everything. So, for the first time ever, I can actually say that I'm looking forward to math. That's amusing to me.

After that, I had Psychology. What a complete shift of gears. Going from Pollack's class to Hersh's class is going from a fast paced, upbeat class, to a slow, dry, rather boring class. I'm sure, had Psych been my first class, it wouldn't have seemed so dull. But, to be perfectly frank, it dragged. It's amazing how long an hour and fifteen minutes can be, and he even cut the class short. Blech.

Patrick and I met up after I got out of that class. My Comp. class was right next to his English class, so we hung out while we both waited for our classes to start. He was cute. Stumbling over his words trying to get them out, asking what my last name was, what my middle name was, what my full name was, where I lived, why he had never seen me around at the grade school here, what my classes were this semester. Mostly, everything he asked yesterday in a different form, which I found thoroughly amusing. Apparently, he got out of his English class a half hour/fifteen minutes early, and instead of going to his next class, stood out by the steps waiting for me to get out of my Comp. class.

Anyway, my Comp. Professor was really good. Looks like it's going to be a challenging class, but a fun one. I'm really looking forward to it.

But, anyway that was today. Tomorrow, I have Freshman Seminar and Speech. Should be fun. Busy day, since I have to work right after classes. Nothing quite like being kept busy.

That's all for now. Homework to be done an all that good stuff now