insanity

wow, the past two days have been completely ridiculous. moving is the most terrible thing in the world. highlights of the experience below:

1. not getting a uhaul after having reserved 2 weeks in advance because of a 24-48 hour wait
2. moving allll my shit in mine and my dad's cars, then having to scramble to find a truck to move my bed, futon, bookshelf, and dresser
3. driving to alachua 6 times in one day
4. our landlord showing up yesterday and telling us we were supposed to be out by midnight the night before (liar!)
5. his wife telling me i need to take care of the garbage that isn't mine
6. painting the bathroom door a "whitish" color that doesn't match the walls :)
7. roach getting locked out of her apartment by the people moving in on the day we are supposed to be moving out
   
8. leaving a little surprise in the hallway closet for our landlord and/or new tenants (dead cockroach) :)

so yes moving is terrible. now i'm homeless. i'm staying at francisca & joel's until i go home, then i'm coming back the 8th to move into my new place. yay!

radon

i like my cat. :) i am so excited to pick him up and bring him to gainesville!

i decided to name him radon for a few reasons:

1. i was going to name him "alaska" but it didn't seem right since he's male
2. luna was ruled out for the same reason
3. he's radioactive
4. radon is the only radioactive noble gas
5. the element radon was once called "niton" which is from the latin "nitens" which means "light," and i wanted a name relating to light
   
6. radioactive + light= spark= perfect name!
   

i'm sure i'll take a lot of pictures once he's here. and they will be posted.

sleep

for some reason i haven't been able to do this "sleep" thing very well for like 3 weeks. i don't know why. i only got 5 hours of sleep last, so i figured i'd be ready come 11pm. not the case. i am tired, and i am sleepy, but i can't sleep. i suppose it's because i have so many things running around in my mind i can't get them to stop. maybe if i list them i will feel better?

1. moving & packing
2. reserving a truck for this weekend
3. having to drive home and back for the millionth (or third) time this summer
4. graduation & making sure my ENC2210 grade gets sent to the registrar on time (this seems to be the most problematic because it makes me worry i won't be able to graduate, even though it should all be fine.)
   
5. moving & packing
6. having to drive to alachua again tomorrow
7. ENC2210 final tomorrow...which will most likely be a joke of an exam...but since i'm in the process of being worried and stressed out, this seems to be bothering me as well
   
8. getting everything i need for my new apartment
9. scratches on my car from gainesville parking lots :(
10. feeling overwhelmed when i'm really not doing anything
11. school starting again (far too soon!)
    
12. quinones not giving my security deposit back (i'm positive the bastard wont
13. moving & packing

that's all. but i still don't feel any closer to falling asleep. i hate this.

ENC2210 is lameiaciae!

Finally done with all the assignments for that ridiculous class, now i just have to take the final tomorrow and i'm home free! i suppose did provide a little benefit here and there, or at least the course pack will be useful in the future.

other than doing those stupid assignments i have been packing and watching movies. i took a whopping seven boxes to the storage place today all the way in lovely alachua! then i sauntered around downtown alachua and stopped at the only bev's better burgers location i haven't visited for some fries and soda. then i washed my car, and i was a little bit disappointed but it is significantly more shiny now.

other than that i decided to go home next week instead of hang around north florida as a homeless person. at home i get to take the kittens to the vet, take my sister to the dentist, and scope out 20" LCD TV's that i can con my mom into buying for me. woohoo!

storage woes

why, why, why is there no storage available over the summer in gainesville?

this wasn't always a problem. 2 years ago, when the other el bonito-ans moved in, they had no problem finding a place. so, suddenly, ever single UF student, all 40,000 of them decided they needed a place to keep their crap over the summer?

this is quite frustrating! i must have called at least 30 places, including places in newberry and alachua, to finally find one that's about 13 miles away. 13 miles! when there are at least 25 places within 7 miles of where i live! and considering i'm moving like 10 blocks away, its pretty much a huge inconvenience. The problem needs to be remedied, i suggest something like a lottery...like they do for football tickets. grad students get priority on units at the beginning of the summer. they get to pick the units they want for as long as they want. then seniors, juniors....etc. and by the time they get to freshmen the only storage units left will be in the old railroad station in waldo. which is fine, because freshmen can stay home or keep their shit at home until they need to move here instead of taking all the storage units!
i'm not actually sure who is taking them up, so i am talking out of my ass. but, they should at the very least consider subsidzing one of those gigantic multi-story mini storage buildings, like a public storage or something, because obviously there is a demand for it. if only the city would subsidize that instead of bourgie condo buildings like university corners, we'd be set.

oh well.

alanna is back!

i think this will size up to be a fun weekend, where i might be able to put aside my mundane reading celeb gossip, pretending to learn french, and forcing myself to do these stupid assignments for "technical writing." We'll begin the adventures by going to hogan's (yum!) in a short while. then tomorrow we wil probably hit up common grounds for some morningbell action. sweet!

post une

Well, i decided to take on the world of blogger for 2 reasons:

1. LJ was too emo for me, and i feel old at the ripe old age of 22
2. i forgot my LJ password anyway...

so that's that.