First off, I’d just like to mention that I’m typing this after several beers, Rocky IV and π. Gotta say, it’s an interesting combination, so I’m in a sort of head-floaty place. Maybe I’ll go fix some pu erh dante and get some perversely strong caffeine into the mix. Yeah, baby, yeah. But before I allow my brain to wander off in the 3.14159 directions it’s heading, I’ll get on with my day.

So I ran to campus today for several hours. First stop, the library to drop off the first three Rocky movies and grab the following: Rocky IV, π, and Requiem for a Dream. Then I stopped by the LLL’s secretary to ask if she’d found my office key yet. We tried a double fistful of keys, none of them working, but she did find one of the other grad assistant’s door keys, so at least that was helpful. She then told me that there was some paperwork I needed to sign, so I said I’d come back because I had a meeting with Keri in twenty minutes and still wanted to hit Public Safety. I went by Public Safety for a new ID as well as a new parking tag, only to get there and read a large sign proclaiming that I’d need my vehicle registration…which happened to be parked on the complete opposite end of campus. Fuck that, I’ll do it tomorrow. So I grabbed a soda (the campus recently switched from Coke products to Pepsi, so it was a Mountain Dew, to be exact) and then was walking towards Keri’s office when I saw her entering the building. We chatted for a bit about the cultural events for this fall as well as getting me the rest of the teacher’s materials for my 202 class, then we hit the secretary’s office again to see if maybe Dr. Dunbar might have the key as well as to ask why I was scheduled for spring and not fall. Dunbar happened to walk by at that point and we talked to him about it, and we got the ball rolling to have Facility Management send over another key as well as getting me listed under the correct classes so I can access my roster and grade and attendance reporting. I guess there wasn’t actually any paperwork for me to sign since it was already taken care of, so we borrowed the Master Key so I could get in my office for a while. I don’t have access to the computer (no user name or login), and I don’t have access to voice mail (it needs to be reset), so there wasn’t much to do in there, but I got started removing some of the random decorations I knew I didn’t like much, and then I stared out the window for a while. It’s not the greatest view–not like the view from the second story in my first office, but it’s a window and that’s all that matters. Next: to clean the bugs out of the window well. Gross.

So tomorrow’s plans include doing laundry, contacting the computer guy to get logged into that ancient machine, getting the telephone reset so I can set up voice mail, posting my office hours on the door, seeing if there’s any change with my key or class schedule, getting a parking tag and faculty ID, and otherwise just bringing my things into the office so I can start turning it into my home away from home. It’s going to be a long day, and it will be made even longer by the fact that I will be concerned with getting my things together to teach on Wednesday. Hopefully I’ll be able to sleep better tonight, though I doubt it. The neighbor’s air conditioner is broken and makes a screeching/hissing/humming noise every two minutes. Since the bedroom overlooks their AC box, the sound is echoed up here twice as bad as street level. I might end up sleeping on the couch again. That’d be a great start to the day. Oh well, it’s a start, nonetheless.

Atheist quote of the day: “I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” -Stephen Roberts