Wednesday, May 16, 2001
Here I am, sitting on my bare, delofted bed with my laptop with a lonely power cord and ethernet cable, listening to the pounding, screaming, music playing, observing the studying, gobs of parents, and boxes that appear everywhere.
Finals
are over, and it's the night before I leave for PDX. I have nothing more than
two suitcases, a laptop, a backpack and a plane ticket that remain in my possession.
I sit here, wondering how I will sleep with no sheets and no pillow. Even no
alarm clock to get me up in the morning. This moving out bit is something else.
I just survived the worst packing experience of my life, and as of today at
2pm, Collegeboxes has picked up 4 boxes for storage and 1 to ship home. What
am I shipping home? you ask. Two bags of dirty clothes and a keyboard.
Is this entry going anywhere? No... Frankly it's just me rambling because I won't be sleeping until my roommate decides it's time to sleep, which, as it's 11:30pm now, will be quite soon for a 9am exam.
Let's back up to the packing experience. It's utterly amazing how much stuff a college student acquires over the course of one year. Somehow what came here in 3 boxes, 4 suitcases, and numerous care packages through 2 semesters needs to go home. If storage were free, I wouldn't even be writing about it. But the fact is, box after box fills up and each box adds up in cost. Thankfully, the Collegeboxes rep that picked up my stuff today really didn't pay attention to exactly how much the boxes weighed. I'm fairly sure that most of them exceeded the 70 lb limit, but he still marked all but one (an obviously oversized box) as the standard price. When you go to a school where approximately 90-95% of the students are within reasonable driving distance from home, it gets irritating when no one (including Collegeboxes) can empathize with your shipping and storage situation.
Yeah... I'm using Collegeboxes to store my stuff for the summer. What?!? They're so expensive! Well, not really, since it's cheaper than shipping it home and back. What, why do you need to ship everything? Because I live in Oregon and I'm flying home. Flying?? That's so expensive, why don't you drive! Yeah... ok...
So I leave tomorrow at 10am. My flight leaves Syracuse around 2pm, and I arrive in Portland at 9:30pm. When I make it home I will attempt to see ER if I'm lucky enough to catch the beginning, or will just hit the sack. I think I have a lifeguard training for new curriculum on Sunday. I haven't heard anything from them yet.
Being the last day of my freshman presence here at Cornell, I believe I will be signing off from these "regular" updates and will revert to an "every now and then" schedule that is determined by anything really, really cool that happens over the summer. My e-mail addresses will remain the same during the summer months, so feel free to contact me like you usually do. I will have broadband at home as well, so you'll see me online.
Extra bonus Random Word this time to hold you over for the summer. Catch you later!
Aaron
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