Archive for August 02003

Habituated.

In Personal on 15 August 02003 with Comments Off

I’m a man of habit. Not obsessively so — I don’t insist on waking at the same time, having the same breakfast, etc. But I’ve got to have some sort of a pattern on which to rely, at least when I have little else on which to provide stability. Here in Blacksburg, [...]

Wooooo!!!

In Personal on 14 August 02003 with Comments Off

I like my apartment just fine. I like its convenient downtown location, right on Main Street. I like that it’s over retail establishments. I even appreciate that one of those establishments is a bar/concert venue. But what I don’t appreciate is my new discovery: the woo girls.
At 1am, my eyes are [...]

Settling in.

In Personal on 13 August 02003 with Comments Off

Things are still pretty confusing here in Blacksburg. I’m pretty well settled in at my apartment, but I don’t have some basics sorted out. For example, I still have to park in the metered lot behind my building, not having acquired a long-term parking spot just yet. At $0.25/hour, with a 2-hour [...]

B’burg update.

In Personal on 11 August 02003 with Comments Off

The move went fine. I had help from friends and family, but it was still a long and tough Saturday. Saturday night and Sunday, Amber and I unpacked a lot and more or less got settled in. Today, we’re wandering around campus, trying to buy textbooks, software, figure out how to get [...]

B’burg bound.

In Personal on 8 August 02003 with Comments Off

I’m all packed up. Tomorrow morning, I move from Charlottesville to Blacksburg, where I will remain until May of 2005. Ntelos can only provide me with a potential date for a DSL install of the 18th (!), but things seem to be otherwise in good order. I’ll find out for sure in [...]

Packing it in.

In Personal on 7 August 02003 with Comments Off

Packing to move has made me into a box fiend. Wherever I go, whatever I do, I think only of boxes. “I’ll bet that came in a box.” “Say, I wonder if anybody’s using that box?” “I don’t really need that product…but, hey, it’s got a nice box, so what the [...]

Blacksburg voter.

In Personal on 5 August 02003 with Comments Off

I talked with two women at the Voter Registrar’s here in Charlottesville this afternoon, to see what I should do in the way of my voter registration. The question is whether I should remain registered in Charlottesville, or change my registration to Blacksburg. After a five minute conversation, we concluded that the morally [...]