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jackofallgeeks) wrote2003-03-19 08:48 pm
jackofallgeeks) wrote2003-03-19 08:48 pm
A Swing And A Miss
So, there we were, bottom of the ningth, a man on second, and two outs. it was a pretty tight spot, and the guy we had comming up to bat... well, perhapse I should start at the beginning.
As of the beginning of this week, I did not have a place to stay next semester. Well, more or less -- with Room Selection this week and a Lottory Number of 419 (not exactly low...), I was in some pretty dire straights. So I talked with Aaron and he told me I should probably talk with Curtis, a Computer Engineer.
Curtis was sorta in a spot himself. He had been planning to get a quad-apartment with Chris, Mike and Liam, but Liam wasn't going to be around. So, they needed a fourth, and I'd come in at just the right time. So we discussed it and got everything set.
Room Selection was tonight at 5.
Our low number was 170, meaning a possible (though not entirely probably) 169 rooms would have been snatched before we got up there. Considering the Lotto numbers ran up past 500, we thought was sat pretty high on the food chain.
Like a prized mallard, we were shot down cleanly when, at number 35, they were nearly out of Apartments.
It soon became obvious that we should quickly come up with a saftey net into which we would most likely fall. The trouble was that Chris wanted a Single Room, meaning Gibbons would be our Prime pick after Millenium. However, Curtis needs the A/C which Gibbons does not provide. We were at the end of our kerocene-soaked rope, and the match wasn't too far away. Odds were we'd have to break the group and end up in the Lowwer-classmen dorms of Ryan and Flather... Not an encouraging prospect, especially not for Mike, who had a VERY high lotto number (he'd turn in his deposit late...). Crunch time was comming. Chris and Curtis were still at odds over Gibbons v. A/C, and the compromise was Centennial Village -- more of a lose-lose compromise than anything else, but it's all we had to work with.
Number 160 was called, and there were still SEVEN 5-man apartments in Millenium. We had 4 guys; we were down a man. At 165, we had them announce that we were in need of a 5th and, to quote Phil, "I shit you not," guys popped out of the ground as though summoned from the ether. The first one, Zach, was an odd-man-out in his group, who'd decided to split their own 200-lotto 5-man. We took him on at number 168, 169 never showed, and at 170 we skated into a 5-man Apartment in Millenium North, complete with one Double-Room, Three Single-rooms, a Common Area and a Kitchen.
There is a God.
And He loves us.
Quote of the Day: "I'm so Not Richard, I'm not even Steve!"
And This is another reason why I like Kincaid.
As of the beginning of this week, I did not have a place to stay next semester. Well, more or less -- with Room Selection this week and a Lottory Number of 419 (not exactly low...), I was in some pretty dire straights. So I talked with Aaron and he told me I should probably talk with Curtis, a Computer Engineer.
Curtis was sorta in a spot himself. He had been planning to get a quad-apartment with Chris, Mike and Liam, but Liam wasn't going to be around. So, they needed a fourth, and I'd come in at just the right time. So we discussed it and got everything set.
Room Selection was tonight at 5.
Our low number was 170, meaning a possible (though not entirely probably) 169 rooms would have been snatched before we got up there. Considering the Lotto numbers ran up past 500, we thought was sat pretty high on the food chain.
Like a prized mallard, we were shot down cleanly when, at number 35, they were nearly out of Apartments.
It soon became obvious that we should quickly come up with a saftey net into which we would most likely fall. The trouble was that Chris wanted a Single Room, meaning Gibbons would be our Prime pick after Millenium. However, Curtis needs the A/C which Gibbons does not provide. We were at the end of our kerocene-soaked rope, and the match wasn't too far away. Odds were we'd have to break the group and end up in the Lowwer-classmen dorms of Ryan and Flather... Not an encouraging prospect, especially not for Mike, who had a VERY high lotto number (he'd turn in his deposit late...). Crunch time was comming. Chris and Curtis were still at odds over Gibbons v. A/C, and the compromise was Centennial Village -- more of a lose-lose compromise than anything else, but it's all we had to work with.
Number 160 was called, and there were still SEVEN 5-man apartments in Millenium. We had 4 guys; we were down a man. At 165, we had them announce that we were in need of a 5th and, to quote Phil, "I shit you not," guys popped out of the ground as though summoned from the ether. The first one, Zach, was an odd-man-out in his group, who'd decided to split their own 200-lotto 5-man. We took him on at number 168, 169 never showed, and at 170 we skated into a 5-man Apartment in Millenium North, complete with one Double-Room, Three Single-rooms, a Common Area and a Kitchen.
There is a God.
And He loves us.
Quote of the Day: "I'm so Not Richard, I'm not even Steve!"
And This is another reason why I like Kincaid.
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And can you believe that this Mike guy had the gall to say my laugh drives him up the wall?! I know I can be a bit overzealous sometimes, but...
-cracks knuckles and grins-
We've since cdome to an... understanding, I believe.
(Actually, and Rachel may get a kick out of this, I found out that he's a Theatre Major, and he subsequently learned that I'm a wannabe theatre-geek. -giggles- I'm like a Jack-of-all-Geeks. Anyways, we ended up getting stuck with each other for dinner the other night and got t'talk a bit, so... S'all cool.)
Yay!!
Yay!...