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 getting heavy, having …
Category Archives: Personal
Settling in.
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 meter limit, it’s …
B’burg update.
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 a wireless account, …
B’burg bound.
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 the next 24 …
Packing it in.
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 heck.” I’ve packed my …
Blacksburg voter.
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 and legally …
nancies.org’s year the fifth.
Today’s not just my birthday — it’s also nancies.org‘s, the big #5. To commemorate the occasion, we’re running a series of brief essays about the role that the site and the Dave Matthews Band fan community plays in people’s lives. The stories are nice, and remind me why it is that I continue to deal …
Year the 25th.
I’m now a quarter of a century old. To mark the occasion, Amber and I are taking a hike in the afternoon, and seeing South Pacific at Ash Lawn tonight. And thus will commence my 26th year.
Disappearing act.
One of the curiouser aspects of moving from Charlottesville to Blacksburg is that few people are likely to notice. Everybody likes to think that, within their own sphere of influence, they are important. That if they were up up and disappear, the world might go on, but it would never be the same. The thing …
I’m all wet.
Five minutes ago, I put a load of clothes in the washer. Four minutes ago, I realized that I left my wallet in my pants. Three minutes ago, I realized that it’s a front-loading washer; ergo, I can watch my wallet spin around and around, but I can’t actually do anything about it. My life …