Update from Yesterday

[jackofallgeeks]

So I'll try and be brief (which I find is rather difficult for me).

I did in fact go to Contra last night. After work I went back to my uncle's and took a nap and had some water. I was feeling better and, weighing it all, I decided I'd just kick myself if I didn't go. So after dinner at 6:00 I headed out for the 2-hour drive. Aside from a few idiots (which Traffic usually generates in higher density) it was a good drive, and the setting sun was simply gorgeous.

When I got out there, there was a huge crowd, easily twice the size of anything we'd had last year -- seems they drew a healthy number of Freshmen. As per usual, the large crowd intimidated me, and it took a half-hour or so before I felt comfortable; but then everything was fine. I saw some old friends (Angela, whose name I always forget; Sylvia, whose name I never knew; Juliana; Nicole; Mary; and a few others) and got in a few dances. Even when I wasn't dancing (in that first half-hour) I was loving it; I really missed Contra. I also got to chat with Greg, Gene's old room-mate, which was really cool, though I didn't really like 'Ren, a casually-confessed stoner-girl from 'Jersey.

I felt a little bad as I didn't see much of Suzannah and, aside from a short bit in that first half-hour, we didn't get a chance to talk much; I was in the middle of a conversation with Greg and 'Ren when she left, so there wasn't even really a Goodbye. I would have gone over to her dorm to say hello and talk a bit, except that I needed to get home and grab some sleep before work this morning. I plan on being out there next week, and hopefully most other Thursday nights too (Friday classes don't start until Noon), so I'll get a chance to talk to her.

In eight hours (roughly 480 minutes) I'll be out of work here at Davis, and in about 26 hours (1,560 minutes) I hope to be moving into my Dorm Room. You can't see it, but I'm rather excited.

Comments

[raen.livejournal.com]

(roughly 480 minutes)[...](1,560 minutes)

*blink* o.O

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

-laughs-
For your piece of mind, I've been using a calculator, though some of those calculations aren't that hard, and I could do it in my head. Sixty is a nice round number, after all.

But if you look over this past week, I've been counting the minutes since Monday (when it was something like 8,000 or so). When you chop it down like that, it seems shorter cause I can actually SEE minutes passing...

And I just like numbers.

[raen.livejournal.com]

but then it's like 'awe, but i still have 45,876 minutes to go~~~! :(' :P

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

Actually, I've found that it seems shorter. In fact, I was talking to my cousin (who, admittedly, isn't great with numbers) and I told her that in 2,880 minutes I'd be moved into school. And she was like "You're at work now and you'll be at school later today?" And I said, "No, dear, 2,880 minutes is two days."

But really, 8,000 minutes doesn't seen that long, and it's nearly a week!