neveralarch

Not status, like facebook status, status like the status updates on spaceships or something. But also like facebook, I guess.

I made it to Minneapolis, like two weeks ago! I guess I forgot to say. My studio is pretty small, and I was freaked out for a while about living downtown in a new city by myself and not knowing anything, but I have calmed down and navigated myself around the city a bunch and now I like it here. Adaptability, man, really glad I got that from somewhere. Everyone in my building is super nice, and it's really easy to get around from my building - I'm on a couple main/frequent bus routes, and the university is about a twenty minute bike ride away (I made it in fifteen when I was running late once, but I'm not sure how). We're having a math camp right now, and it's going okay; turns out I knew more calculus than I thought (never taken it, but it turns out that there's calculus secreted in a lot of statistics calculations). I'm working weekends at the local renn faire, which means I am exhausted on Monday but also not broke, which is a good tradeoff since the graduate program won't start paying me until halfway through September.

Today my mom stopped by on (or out of) her way to Kansas and brought me my cat (the one who treacherously hid right before I left home, and didn't come back until I was in Ohio). I am super glad to have him, even if he is deeply uncertain about this place and keeps hiding in my closet, getting cat hair all over my workout clothes because he's chilling in the bottom cubby of my dresser-boxes-things. Now he's just kind of sitting next to the closet, though, so maybe eventually he will be fine enough with this place to hang out on my mattress with me. (I have a bed coming in the mail, hopefully tomorrow or Wednesday. Furniture delivery is expensive, but some of the beds on walmart.com have free shipping, so...)

Everyone in my graduate program is also great - mostly older than me, but several of them are also straight out of undergrad and they're all really fun. There are three of us with the exact same concentration/minor combination, out of a twelve-person cohort, so that's kind of cool. And I just found out who my first-year advisor is, so I've sent him an email to see if we can figure out what I'm supposed to be doing next week when classes start. At the orientation meeting about half of us hadn't heard from our advisors at all - at least I'm not alone in my confusion!

None of this is especially exciting for a status update. Something something exploding dwarf star, something something torpedoes fired in anger. I don't know. After complaining about the lack of alternative ships in Teen Wolf last week, I did find this rare pair ficathon, so I'm going to see if I can get any fills together tomorrow when I can actually think.