Greetings from sunny San Diego! The move went, for the most part, smoothly, thanks to the fact that I had my family around to help me carry stuff in. The apartment is now 95% furnished and 75% decorated, though I might have to hold off on purchasing more decorations until at least next month. I have been doing heavy lifting and putting furniture together from Ikea for the last three days so I am sore all over. The sticky weather didn't help too much on the not-sweating-profusely front. I am taking a little break here at the library to check some e-mail and to generally get away from the Ikea boxes that are sitting back at my apartment, begging to be opened and assembled. The cable/phone/internet guy isn't coming until Thursday morning so I won't be checking NuTang as regularly as I'd like.

My parents and sister left this morning on the train. I slept at around 1:00 in the morning and had to get up at 5:00 to take them to the station. It's too bad my dad isn't around to help me put together the rest of the furniture; that would make it go so much faster. My sister didn't want to leave. She told my mom and dad that they need to buy her plane tickets so she can come down regularly. I live about 15 minutes from the beach so I think that's weighing heavily in her mind. Also doesn't help that San Diego is gorgeous, and there are pandas here. Everyone loves pandas.

I am so over the undergraduate lifestyle. My neighbors have been partying every night since I got here. Don't they have other things to spend their money on than cheap booze and cigarettes? Okay, I might just be jealous here. I kinda miss those kinds of nights back when I was an undergraduate. Who's to say I won't have some nights like that myself? But now my default mode is FINISH THIS PROGRAM IN TWO YEARS, so in order to accomplish that I will have to restrain myself somewhat. I also have something called a "budget" to stick to (that word makes me cringe inside with adult-ness), one that places housing, food, and education above over parties, booze, and socially-awkward situations.

For example, I have to buy my books for this semester. Why are textbooks so ludicrously expensive? Even buying used, I will still drop $250 for these books. But I guess it's worth it: most of these books are ones I will be keeping for reference in the future. Textbooks means it must be getting pretty damn close to kicking off the school year! I have graduate student orientation next week and then the following week is when classes start! I'm excited but I need to keep on working on my apartment so that when the time comes to start classes (i.e. when the time comes that I won't have any more time to work on buying shit/putting stuff together), I will be ready to just kick back and get with the studying.

Until next time (which, admittedly, may not be for at most a couple of days)!

All of the regulars are visiting less frequently now. D:

Two hundred and fifty would be more than I use for books in like, two years I think... :S Of course I only read for fun so... :P
» randomjunk on 2008-08-19 04:21:31

pandas?? panda as in the animal or pandas as in people having black eye ring?
» renaye on 2008-08-19 11:11:37

I hope you'll be able to get your internet connection soon!

I agree that the price of textbooks are so ridiculously expensive! My mother's going to have to break her bank buying books for me and my brother again.

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It was me who updated about 2 blogs a day for a couple of days... 3 weeks without internet is really taxing.

I don't see any one of the seniors advertising for second hand textbooks and the lecturers didn't even say anything about it.
» Nuttz on 2008-08-20 06:44:11

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