3 posts tagged “house”
i'm flying out in about three hours. (: i don't think i've ever been so psyched to go anywhere.. namely SCHOOL. but i can't help it, all of this excitement regarding the house, friends, cocktail parties, and etc has built up so much, i'm basically ready to burst. i'm literally giddy.. and it feels like it's been ages since i've gotten my mood perked up so highly. so thank goodness, it came right in time. also. monday night football. bears at colts. that probably has a lot to do with the whole giddyness. but whatever. it's all good.
i'm sitting in the middle of my microeconomics class, bored to tears at the moment. seven weeks into the spring quarter, and i'm finally realizing that this class was a bad idea. however, there is very little room left to complain about my courses, seeing as i'm done in just under four weeks. (: the year went by extremely fast, and i'm a little shocked about it to be honest. it's been quite the wild ride, with the good and the bad.. and the suitcase full of situations that i just really didn't/still don't want to deal with. i know i'll definitely miss rochester while i'm back at home for the summer, but the thing is, i really can't wait to get back to san diego. hell, if anything, i can use home as an excuse to run away from the problems that i'm trying to avoid up here.
but then again, with each passing day, i'm looking forward to year two more and more. i'm not too sure about how spread out the word is so far, but my parents and i basically bought a brand new house up here. it's about a mile away from the academic side of campus, two stories, finished basement, four bedrooms, two and a half baths, attached two car garage, half porch, grey exterior, wine-colored shutters and door.. it's bound to be gorgeous. my father flew up here the other weekend to help finalize the contracts, as well as assisting with the whole design process. exterior colors, roof colors, shutter colors, door color, wall color, tile color, carpet color, trim color, counter top color, lighting fixtures, amendments to original floor plans and blue prints. it was like playing a real-life version of the sims.. although much more costly.. and without that handy +$100,000 cheat code.
the visit with my dad was great, though. i ended up staying in his hotel with him because any time away from my dorm and my roommate is spectacular. he flew into rochester, his hometown, on april 11th, his birthday, and i took him out to dinner to celebrate. the next night, after my time-based imaging class at 9:00pm, he took a few learning community friends and i out to dinner at TGIFs. the three of them, adam, crystal, and sarah, all fell in love with my dad. they thought he was so funny, and we all had a great time at dinner. and then the next night, he took out two of my future roommates, malcolm and christina, and myself for another dinner.. and really, the two of them weren't as impressed with my father as my learning community kids were. it was pretty disappointing. oh well, i guess i shouldn't really think anything of it.. you'd just think, "hey, this guy is buying a house to make sure his daughter and ourselves will have a place to stay in for the next few years, maybe i should be a little friendly." whatever.
other than the house, i can't quite tell how things are moving. i've tried to simmer down some of my partying habits, seeing as one bad night out in the woods with my lovely learning community left me with a boatload of good memories, but also hungover and hugging a toilet the next morning for about four hours. that was also the night that i realized that i really don't like drinking all that much.. and that i really, really don't like tequila. at all. so instead of partying this weekend.. or celebrating 4/20 like 90% of my campus was, malcolm and i decided to take a weekend trip up to canada. his aim was to get totally trashed, mine was just to get away from my roommate and her boyfriend. i love being nineteen and in canada, because it's like you're a legal adult. i can buy alcohol, cigarettes, gamble, and go clubbing.. although i didn't buy cigarettes, or gamble [mainly because i didn't understand how to use any of the games at the casino], nor did i go clubbing. i guess canada would be more fun if everyone who went was of age, oh well. the trip was still nice, mostly because malcolm let me do all the tourist-y crap that my dad never wanted to do, including mini-golf and the world record museum. (:
i don't know where to quite go from there. classes are.. okay. i'm hoping for an A in typography, a B in time-based imaging, and crossing my fingers for a B in bach&the baroque and principles of microeconomics. [speaking of, i need to remember these formulas: ATC=TC/Q, TC=FC+VX, ATC=FC/Q+VC/Q, ATC=AFC+AVC.] i've basically given up on relationships and crushes for the year, seeing as i'll be 3000 miles away from everyone i know up here in a few weeks.. although that doesn't change the fact that somehow, i am talking to a boy who's in a metal band, with a show coming up this weekend, and another one who's a computer science major at yale, as well as other random guys who i've been spending time with and talking to for the past few months. plus i'm still meeting new people, including a girl who went to chula vista high school, a bando to be exact, in my bach&the baroque class. it's nice to know that i'm not the only girl from southern california stuck out here in the cold. er, well technically hot, as it's been well over 75 degrees these past few days. i must say, that hot weather sure knows how to pull kids out of their dorms. i can look out the window to my left, see blue skies and tons of kids. girls tanning and doing homework, guys playing frisbee and football, it's intense and so unlike RIT. on that note, i think i should end this and start paying attention to my professor again, as class ends in ten minutes and i need to bust out of here as soon as possible to meet friends for dinner. our dining hall has a massive menu of professionally prepared foods tonight, i would have to die before missing it. :p
this afternoon, my future roommates, malcolm, christina, marshall, dan, and i went to check out the house that i found on craigslist earlier this week. it seemed like it was going to be our dream house. imagine this: 2,400 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 2-story, 3 if you include the completely finished basement, a 2 car garage, shed, a driveway that easily holds 12 cars, and a freakin' sauna on the second floor. we were psyched when we read the ad and we emailed the current residents immediately telling them just how interested we were.
well we finally got to take the tour, and the house seriously lived up to all of our expectations. the whole lot of us had huge smiles, and each time we stepped into a new room, they only got bigger. we pretty much agreed on renting that house, and the five of us are preparing to make the security deposit on wednesday. that's $500 straight out of my savings account.. $2500 from the lot of us. but whatever, it'll be worth it, i have a feeling.
i'm excited, "living on my own." well, in a house this time around. i know this means that the responsibilities are doubled.. we'll have to clean, cook, grocery shop, maintain the lawn, shovel snow, etc. i don't know if we're all cut out for doing so, but i guess that's something that we'll just have to figure out as time rolls around. to be completely honest, there's only one thing that i'm a little nervous about, and that's driving to school. i have a feeling that if i'm not living on campus on a daily basis, i'll lose my motivation, or at least the small amount i have, to go to classes. oh, and driving in the snow and ice. that's a big worry of mine too. i guess we'll just have to see how these things resolve themselves next year.
