Friday, August 22, 2003

  Alright. . here we go. I'm almost done unpacking my stuff here in scenic Urbana, Illinois and this is my first day out on the campus.

I've decided that I like my crappy little studio apartment. Even though the doorways are narrow and paint and moulding are peeling from the walls, all I hear at night are bugs buzzing and chirping, and I can barely hear the guy above me walking around. It's nice and quiet. There are plenty of trees with frisky squirrels to muffle out street noise, and I'm half a block away from the pretty side of campus. And I have my own porch and swing!

I'm going to be a contender for top ten geekiest on campus with the new newspaper basket I installed on the rear of my bike. The basket has two parts that hang down either side of my rear tire; it's huge and clunky, so now I can finally say I have a really big rear. Riding around today I was a bit paranoid that the basket is so wide that I'd bump people with it as I passed them--but I'm getting used to it. It defeinitely serves its pupose--I can fit a big backpack in each side, or books, or groceries, or whatever.


The Geek Cycle

I'm in the vet school library right now and I'm about to pick up my books and then
ride over to the health center for a rabies titer. (I sure don't feel rabid.) I'm so excited--I had my rabies vaccination series last month so now I can play with little brown bats all I want! (just kidding--but they are cute, aren't they?)


This one is smiling!

Okay, I know that anthropomorphizing animals is unbecoming a professional, but though I am an animal lover, I'm not a bleeding-heart animal lover. I think hunting is good, I know that suffering is a natural part of life, blah blah and blah. . . .but isn't this little furry guy just SO cute?

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