The best part about my apartment is my view. Downtown is such an awesome sight at night. I can see Lincoln Tower from here—in which I lived last year—and I can even see into my old window (with the help of binoculars). Creepy, I know, but my roommate is the one who brought them.

I got up at 5:30 this morning for my first-ever shift at Oxley’s. I was pretty excited to get started, mostly because I was hoping to meet fun people and was eager to have access to campus food without a meal plan. Check and check. All I did today was train, but I had a lot of fun. Had it been busy, I would have been freaking out. I was dying trying to keep straight all the different types of coffee drinks and how to wash the dishes and where to find supplies and how to use the cash register. I’m totally not ready to actually do anything. But if I can remember what goes into a German Chocolate Cake Mocha tomorrow, I think I’ll be fine.

I bought a few posters at the poster sale outside Central Classrooms today. I was so excited that they had an Across the Universe poster. And a Prefontaine poster. And Garden State and Eternal Sunshine and Fight Club! So that makes five new additions to my wall. I really love the Across the Universe poster…and the soundtrack—even though I don’t care for The Beatles.

Classes start tomorrow, and if I were the freshman I used to be, I’d totally be deciding what I was going to wear tomorrow. How lame am I. But I’ve become much less narcisistic with age, or so I’d like to think. The first day of classes is syllabus day. No one’s going to care what you look like for the 10 minutes you’re sitting in class—or any other time for that matter. Assuming people even go to class. Don’t count on it.

I’m super excited for my COMM 634 class, which is Creative Message Writing. I don’t have it till Thursday, but the course information was just posted to Carmen and I found out that we get to design websites and write a blog! That class is so me. Maybe this communication-major switch was a good idea. :-)