back on the 'net... and no internet to speak of.

it appears that e-star finally got my hosting thing worked out and billed - so it'll be a matter of a day or two and www.amar-prestar.org will be back up.

of course, i just moved myself back to waco and have no internet (long post back on my computer... but no way to get it here to the SUB where I'm currently bumming around because I don't want to unpack anything else)

So anywho - any ideas for some new layoutness? I may try to learn typepad or something. Also going to try to put things up on the main site... maybe. dunno - can't decide!

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Moving In (7:30pm, Thursday, August 17, 2006)

Since I don’t have internet, this post is actually going to appear a day later than it was written – but oh well. I’m tired and need a break, so I’m going to ramble :D

I moved back to Waco today – got up this morning, put the last of the boxes in the car, and drove my not-so-happy self back up here. I am looking forward to being back in class, but the “driving every weekend, always exhausted, not enough sleep, too much homework” drag isn’t exactly appealing. But the guys are coming tomorrow to set up the internet (more on that later) so I had to be here today so that there was someone in the apartment.

Nobody has lived here all summer, see, so I’ve been checking in periodically, but there’s not been much of anything here. I didn’t bring a whole lot with me either – my computer, two boxes of books, some clothes, and a (very) meager kitchen. Nevertheless, it was a hot haul from the car by myself.

Got everything in and realized… $)(%* it’s hot in here… so I go to look at the AC.

Now let me mention again – nobody has been here all summer. So the AC had been turned to “barely cool.” This is also Texas – and there’s just a windowbox AC in this apartment – it’s right above the bed in the bedroom. So while the bedroom was moderately pleasant-ish, the front room/kitchen was rather steamy. So I turned up the fan and cranked up the AC. Figured I’d go to the bank and the store while I waited for things to cool so I took a quick inventory of the place.

Now – this is an old apartment, but it’s not in too bad of shape really. A little dark, the mattress looks a little… well it looks like someone made swiss cheese of one side with a screwdriver. *adds vinyl mattress cover to list*

I go to the store (avoiding all the freshmen and their mommies and daddies – today being freshmen move in day) and spend way too much money on an ink cartridge, a microwave (didn’t I mention it didn’t come with a microwave?), various food items, shelf liner, water, and a spiral/file/folder set for class next week. Get back, unpack…

)($$#*%! it’s STILL hot in here. Still comfy, if a tad on the warm side in the bedroom too – but then that back wall of the complex is beating in the western afternoon sun.

Ok, whatever, I start to unpack, make up the bed (this one squeaks even more than the one last year did!), put the kitchen in semi-order.

Hey look… there’s no towel racks or hooks in the bathroom. Fun. And… every single plug in this apartment is a two-prong plug. Not a single grounded plug in the place. Which is fine… except the microwave I just bought? The one that has to sit on the kitchen table because it’s not going to fit on the counter, even though it’s the smallest one at the store? Yeah – 3prong plug. As does my surge protector. And I need a fan to blow the cold air out of the bedroom and into the apartment.

*sigh* so I go BACK to the store, again dodging freshmen and their mommies and daddies (boy am I glad I’m not going on Sunday though – I got to pick what kind of stuff I wanted, rather than after all the other non-freshmen got to it.) Spend (again) way more than I intend to spend, but hey – I now have salsa and taquitos and rice and some more shelf paper, a seat cushion, some chinsy cheap fabric and stitch-witchery to make “curtains”… you know – important stuff.

But it is now 6:00pm – and I have no desire to cook something. Because the apartment is already hot. So I stop by Subway, grab a sandwich, and head back. All the time forcing myself to pay attention to the road and not the neck-wrenching, ear splitting tension headache I am now sporting for my afternoon’s efforts.

Get back, plug in my stuff with my new found 2 > 3 converter pluggies, microwave works, computer turns on, fan works, finish with the shelf papering, look at the suitcase full of clothes…

And sit down to write this (:

I’m also noticing now… it’s warmer in here. The front room IS cooler – a bit. And the bedroom is warmer. Perhaps I will not be running the fan at night. Or I should just point the fan dead at my face and hope it keeps me cool enough to survive. After all, once we get to the end of September, it might cool off outside…

Oh – and about that internet thing? Apparently I’m in the “rolling appointment” book – meaning that I have no idea when the hell they’re going to show. “Sometime between 8am and 8pm, they’ll call ½ hour before hand” *sigh* - so I can’t go help set up for the Hunters Moon event that is this weekend in Waco, but I also can’t get to everyone’s info on the internet to let them know why I’m not there when I said I would be.

*grumblegrumble* I’m going to go take some advil… oh wait – don’t have any