ThePanda

Not having a net connection in my room is the least of my current problems, there is the entire issue of having no actual room lights, and instead relying on a lamp. Hmm I guess this is what I get for picking an apartment in a really really nice place for real cheap. Like it isn’t right next to the campus, and is a fair walk, but it looks better than most of my friends apartments, and feels safe (it better, seeing as I am stuck with the one door which has to feel insecure, like it locks, and you need a key to enter, but I am not really sure about the lock holing up to much of an assault).

Hmm the past few days have pretty much been spent outside of my room, until I need to sleep, and then I go back and sleep, on the mattress which is meant to act as a bed, not that that is not comfortable, and seeing as I have my sleeping bag out, and the way it works out, it’s sort of being on a camping trip, whee fun. I was trying to convince someone that we should pitch a tent or something, pull out sleeping bags, and sleep on the main green at some point of time, if only because it’s random, and would be fun, but I guess I could do something similar in Park City, where in general there are camp grounds and “pretty” gorges to do so. Hmm I hope Park City is good, for one I need shoes before I go to Park City, my current, not so old shoes are practically collapsing into themselves, and I regret not having a second pair of shoes, and using this for like everything I ever did. On one hand I can see reasons for their collapse, I have pretty much been wearing them every waking minute of my life since mid-September, I have walked more with them than with any of my previous shoes, they were comfortable shoes, and comfort I am told, generally entails a support structure that’s more prone to collapse, and ya. Also walking through all that snow (winter break after I got back), ankle high water (end of Thanksgiving and every other day when Providence decided flooding up would be nice), and everything else probably took their toll, oh well shoe shopping…

As I sit in the CIT on a Saturday morning, as the lights are off on the main foyer/sitting area, where people would sit and wait for Math 35 classes, Brown doesn’t seem deserted, there are people here, unfortunately not in the dorms, which is bad, dorms are good if only because you have to take care of fewer things, and you never have to worry about telling people that your internet connection has an upper bound on the speed. OK to be quite truthful nearly all connections have upper bounds, but you don’t really care about it as much if you live in a dorm. In general none of my arguments make sense, but quite simply I don’t like living in the apartment I do currenrtly, not as much as I loved living in EmWool. Even though there were few people in EmWool I really ever talked to, no one had an early adopter advantage, everyone had equal amounts of information, and hence it’s easier for everyone to adapt. Here there are people who’ve been living here for years, they know where everything is, and if I never run into people, it’s kind of hard for me to ask them about stuff. There are two kitchens, but inexplicably only one has a refrigerator, it took me upwards of 20 minutes to figure this out, and I am still unsure about whether it was OK to put my stuff where I did. Oh well, I am past caring about it right now, it after all is little more than sandwich stuff, and it doesn’t really occupy that much space. But except for the apartment, living in Providence is quite fun, and is something I would like to try out for an entire summer at some point of time, with actual, non-temporary research and stuff, and perhaps a closer apartment.

Hmm oh well, don’t have much more to write at this instant of time, so yup, there you go…

Ze Panda

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