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Man, I haven't updated in forever. And today was the first day since forever ago I actually the subscriptions that arrive in my inbox. Maybe it was the first day ever. I dunno.
I'm back at OC now, staying in the University House, room 102A. I was going to be staying in Wilson East with a guy named Johnnie, but when my family and I arrived, we found a room full of crickets (dead and alive), candy wrappers, and all-around ickiness. The furniture was beat up and old, and the dorm was just plain ungood. So I suggested to my mother that we go check and see if there are any rooms elsewhere, and we headed off to housing and got me changed over to the UH. Which is extremely nice. It's like a 5-star hotel. Except they don't give you towels. Or leave chocolate on your pillow. Or have room service. The cable in my room doesn't work as of yet, but I'm hoping to get that fixed pretty soon here. It works in the common area, so I'll live.
Plus, having lived at home or camp all summer sans cable, I missed out on quite a few episodes of The Colbert Report, so I'm catching up on those on Comedy Central's website. Great stuff, that.
My roommate moved in yesterday night. He seems nice. He's one of those—what do you call them?—oh, yeah: "social types." As soon as he got here, he went to hang out with his friends. I tagged along for a little bit, but he seemed to know everybody, and I seemed to know only Keisha, so I felt awkward. But my roommate likes Creed and Alter Bridge (which are basically the same band), so that's cool.
Pretty soon, I'll have a long post about my thoughts on religion of late. Maybe you'll want to tune in to that. I don't know.
Over the summer, I spent five weeks at Camp Lu-Jo, which was great 80% of the time. The other 20% was Peak Week, which I didn't like at all, but I don't feel the need to go into detail in a public forum like this. Ask me if you want to know why I hated it, and I'll tell you. But, yes, I enjoyed the other four weeks, especially the last one. Rodger is such a great guy, and he and his staff put a lot of work into that week, and it showed. I can't wait for next year.
So why the poop did I spend five long weeks at camp, you ask? I was the Ropes Course Director. Lu-Jo has a low ropes course that is the rival of any in the great state of Oklahoma, and I had the privilege of running it. It was weird and hectic at first, but later on, when I got to work with groups personally, it was really fun. We had this element called the Meuse where the group had to get from one island to another using boards and the other islands in between. The problem was that none of the in-between islands reached to the final island. They could get to every island but the last one—that is, until they used their heads and made a T across two islands and stretched the long part of the T to the final one. It was really cool. I would sit the group down and pull back the long part of the T to make a cross, and I told the group, "The cross is the way to get there. Always the cross." That was my favorite element.
Have you heard about Dell recalling a ton of their computers? I'm typing on my laptop now, hoping the battery doesn't explode. Wouldn't that be a bummer. Maybe I'll get my battery replaced today. I need to buy books, too. I guess that's my to-do list for the day. Yay.
Okay, well, I'm gonna go take a shower. If you read all of this, you have my thanks, because that's more courtesy I showed to you during the summer, me having cut myself off from Xanga and all. So I apologize for my lack of Xanganess, and for not reading all of y'all's entries. Maybe I'll do some catching up while I have nothing to do. Anyway, chao.
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