I'm so contradicting.
I'm just going to start this blog off by saying that, outright, and blatantly. I am contradicting, like Starbursts. *thumbs up*
So, my previous blog was about how great and wonderful college was and how much I loved my dorm, and my roommates and everything was sunshine and rainbows. According to the way I started this post off, I am sure you can guess what this one is going to be about.
Day 2:
It started at 6:45 am. Tyler was experiencing a thunder storm. This was no ordinary thunder storm though. I like to refer to it as an "I just pee'd my pants/wheres my stuffed animal/crawl in your mommy's bed storm"
I just watched the lightning, listened, to the thunder, and tried to refrain from knocking on my roommate's door and asking for a cuddle buddy. I sat until about 8:30 am until I finally snuggled my stuffed animal Simba, and drifted back to sleep.
I woke up at 10:00 and took a shower. Today, I had a few things to do. I needed to go to the bookstore and get my books for class, that starts on Monday. I needed to go and pick up an iPad that the school was supplying me for my Biology class this semester. I also needed to go to the grocery store and pick up snack foods so I can easily gain my freshman 15!
I walked from my dorm, to the welcome center to get a map to find the business building. Then I walked all the way across campus to my car and drove around for about 15 minutes trying to find the building. When I found it, and went inside, I only saw empty classrooms. I walked around for a while, until I finally found an office with someone inside. Little did I know, but this was actually a sauna. I swear it was 100 degrees inside that office. The guy at the desk had no idea what I was talking about. He thought I was just being pranked or something. So, I left the business building with no iPad. I called my mom and she helped me discover where I needed to go, but apparently they were only assigning iPads from 1:00 to 5:00, so I decided I would try to go get my groceries and waste some time before I could try to find the right spot again.
I went to the closest walmart and got out of my car to be greeted by a woman at the door yelling "WE'RE CLOSED"
Walmart?! Closed?! I know. My thoughts exactly. My guess is that the storm knocked out their power, but maybe I'm wrong. I don't know.
So, then I went to Brookshire Brother's and got my groceries. My estimate is that I had about $30 worth of snacks. I didn't have very much! I waited in line, and waited...and waited. It looked like the girl who was working the cash register had no idea what she was doing, so I waited for about 10 minutes and then found a different line to wait in. Once again, I waited and waited...and waited. I noticed that every line seemed to be backing up. They were apparently having some computer problems. After standing in line for 30 more minutes, I was informed that the computers weren't accepting debit or credit cards. I live in the 21st century, so of course that was my only way of paying for my $30 worth of groceries.
I left Brookshire's without any food in hand. I then went to Target and had to re-shop for everything and pay for it there. Luckily, I was able to get them that time.
When I got back to campus, I decided to go get my books from the bookstore. I went in and told them my name, and told them that I had ordered them online, so they went to look in the back room and came back telling me that they couldn't find them. I told them my name again and luckily she found them this time. But, she came back saying I hadn't paid for them yet. I had to walk all the way back to my dorm room (on the 5th floor, by the way) and get my credit card, and come back to pay for them. Then I took my roommate with me to find the business building, and she showed me exactly where I needed to go to get my iPad. It was only a few doors away from the sauna office.
So, that was my day. It started out pretty crumby, but it slowly got better.
I realize now that not every day is going to be peaches and cream. I am going to have ups and downs. I prefer the ups, as does everyone. I still love it here, and I still love my roommates. I have everything I need now. So, maybe it will get easier from here on out.
I hope none of you had experiences like this, but if you did, I'd love to hear about them. It feels good to rant for a while
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