So here I am back at RPI--and to describe it in one word, I would choose "ugh". My second choice, however, would be desolate. Picture as evidence. That one vehicle you see in the lot is mine, and its taken in the lot my room oversees. The apartments on the left are where I am staying--each unit is two levels, four people with full kitchen, living room, and bath. There is literally noone around, I think I saw two of my roomates for about ten minutes yesterday but that may have been a hallucination based on my need for company. A long way off I can hear the slow, deliberate rumble of progress and traffic, but here its a ghost town.
First impressions of my room: old. Actually it kind of has a Bates' Motel atmosphere to it--as if not just one, but several people have died here. So disturbingly old is this place that I was absolutely positive that if I were to disturb the furniture setup or open the cabinet drawers after sundown that an evil spirit would hiss and fly around the room. Fortunately this did not occur--I am well-moved in.
Further adding proof to my idea that this is a den of ghosts and murder was a present I found in the bottom drawer of the cabinet. I have proof now that the prior residents were girls--and fashion conscious girls at that. In this picture Ben is saying, "come on, really?!?" while gesturing at the abominations.Today my goal is to recover all or most of my things from the fraternity house--or at least what has not been ruined. It still astounds me how efficiently--and completely--things can be destroyed (yes, destroyed is not even overkill in this case) when they are left there. From the emails I've been getting, this summer has sounded like a particularly crazy one, hopefully my bike is okay!
So just now a huge obnoxious noise bellowed from the main campus--my first thought was monster. My second was air raid. Turns out it was a test of RPI's alert system. A man's voice came on after the crazy siren, but, due to echo I couldn't make out a single word he said--not very useful in an emergency haha!
Below are pictures of my room after being moved-into. The before pictures are basically this but with no stuff in them--and the bed was in a weird orientation--swapped with the desk, so I fixed that problem REAL SOON.
It occurs to me that I didn't even blog about my adventure to Boston! Ugh I have so much to catch up on! I can't promise that I can ever get to that, so here is a picture of my sweetheart FARAH <--named so that everyone knows its her :) packing her bag and checking that she has all her paperwork for the fiftieth time.
Oh my God the RPI alert thing has turned into one huge screeching tone and I feel like my head is going to pop--I have to stop sorry!
-B
