Made out of the clothes from my suitcase and a pack of toilet paper. Fortunately now I can sleep on this:
I still need a sheet to go over the mattress, but I'm certainly not worrying about that so soon. I also bought my shower curtains and most importantly I bought MY NEW IMAC!! Yay!! I had to buy it over the phone because A - They didn't have any in stock at the bookstore!! (Which makes no sense considering no undergrads have even arrived for the fall yet. They need to get it together!) and B - I needed to split the payments for me to pay for half and my dad to pay the other half. A fair deal considering I could never have afforded the full payment and my dad is getting my very nice previous computer in return. The only downside is that it may not even come until Tuesday when I was told it was 24 hour shipping. Oh well... I can survive in this computer lab until then.
I put together a very tight budget for all my other needs. So far it's looking good I've saved about $70 so far from what I had budgeted for the computer, bike, air matress, blanket, shower curtains, pillow, and food. My plan (since I do not have a vehicle) is to purchase most of my stuff online in the hope that it will all ship to me. If I continue to stick to my budget I can leave myself with about $800 left to carry me through to the school year for books, fees, and a cushion for my very low assistantship stipend. Who knows what other barriers I will run into though. I'm a little worried about my first housing payment though. They want $653 right from the start but there is no way I can pay this until I start getting a paycheck.
Aside from the budget stress, I've already started to have some awesome experiences. For starters, the humidly here is quite nice. Not so much where you feel way sticky. But also way more than in Utah. Like last night when I made myself a PB&J sandwich, the bread was SO moist. More moist than I had ever tasted. It was delicious.
I also got to meet 2 of my first year HESA cohort, Melissa and Demitri, for the first time! We went and saw a late showing of The Help at the movie theater over by the College Mall at 10:30pm. It was interesting locating and getting to this theater. None of the people in our group had vehicles either (which actually brought comfort to me since I was worried no one else would going car-less like me) So we all decided to walk to the theater. It was only about a 30 minute walk, but google took us on quite the route. Through neighborhoods and weird walkways. It was fun though. I was really looking forward to seeing the movie because the book was so good. It was quite long of a movie but so good. We ended up leaving the theater at 1AM but it was still fun to make the walk back. I learned a lot about my new friends.
Today I'm just relaxing. I'm probably going to stay in the computer lab for most of the day doing online shopping and researching more and more about Bloomington. I don't really want to buy anything today because I'll be ok for a bit. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow because I'll get to meet quite a few of my cohort at a Pool Party we have planned. Maybe i'll take a late bike ride to see the local area and explore. Btw here is my new bike. It's certainly nothing special, but it's new and will last me a while:
I'm gonna go make me another sandwich. My choices will be pretty limited until I buy some pots, pans, utensils, and a microwave.
Smiling as always,
Cameron
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