Moved in! Well, mostly.

We have a campus apartment! We have an apartment with...broken air conditioning. Sigh. There's a work order in already, though, so hopefully that means it'll get fixed tomorrow, or perhaps Tuesday. In the meantime, having to listen to the AC unit outside my window come on VERY LOUDLY every ten minutes to give the people below and above us cool air is kind of a salt-in-the-wound sort of deal, alas. However, it will diminish when we get air and I can close my windows. (Although I do rather like the crickets chirping all day and night.)

But that's really just about the only bad bit. Because otherwise? This is niiiiice. We have the most massive common room in the world, and a giant bathroom, complete with bathtub. My single isn't as massive as the one at Exeter, but it's pretty big, and the giant window makes up for a lot. It faces east, which means it's not as godawful hot as it could be without the A/C, and I get nice morning light that will help when I have to get up for classes and actually be awake. The window seat faces west, so that room will be warm in the afternoons. It does mean that we have to get a curtain for it pretty soon, though, as the sun shines right in around 6 PM. Also, we're in the middle of the woods. Sort of. We have woods on two sides, anyway, at least for now (winter will mean we can see the new athletic center perfectly through the bare trees), and they're woods enough that I watched a deer this morning through my window for a good ten minutes. I think there's a woodpecker living nearby, too.

The woods and the green carpet/furniture, dark woodwork, and white walls definitely give off an aura of cabin-in-the-Smokies. Kinda nifty. :)

It's so nice to see everybody I missed last year. More than half the student population is new to me. The freshman and sophomore classes are beyond massive. Mine started at 430, and these are starting at 470 or something. PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN PEIRCE TOWER. Which will mean absolutely nothing to most of you, and those of you it does mean something to know already, but OMG. It's a DINING HALL. And the NEWSPAPER OFFICE. AUGH.

There are some other changes. The bookstore and Peirce got rearranged a bit. The Wal-Mart in Mt. Vernon is now not only supersized, but open 24 hours. Coshocton Avenue is even more built up.

But a lot of things are the same, and for that I am grateful. Looking forward to classes starting, actually.

( I bring you...pictures! Of our apartment! Very, very graphics-heavy! )

Also, I have a few pictures from the 500 miles between Nashville and Gambier. They aren't great. But Florence is fun.