Amber and I drove down to Blacksburg this morning to attend Virginia Tech‘s transfer student orientation, an all-day event. Most of it was the just blah-blah BS that could be expected: make friends for the rest of your life, work hard, greatest years of your life, etc. (The speakers were strangely fixated on UVa, something …
Category Archives: Personal
Volvo and camera.
I got a Volvo. It’s a 1994 850, a brighter blue than it looks here. It’s got the usual bells and whistles (airbags, cruise control, sunroof, electric seat adjustments, blah blah), and has just 76,000 miles on it. I’ve never owned a car before. Just a motorcycle (in the back right of the photos.) Incidentally, …
Signed lease.
I signed the lease on my uber-sexy Blacksburg apartment. It’s right on Main Street, between College Ave. and Jackson St., just a stone’s throw from Virginia Tech’s campus. It’s got two levels, one bedroom, and one bathroom. The downstairs has a foyer, the bedroom, and the bathroom. Right in the foyer is a bright red, …
Rad pad.
Amber and I went to B’burg (I have no idea if anybody says “B’burg,” but I’m trying it out) today and checked out apartments. We found the single coolest apartment ever. Two words: spiral staircase. And the location is incredible. and the price is shockingly low. I won’t say nothin’ else until I sign a …
Kitten care.
Amber is taking care of a pair of kittens until they can survive on their own, one 5 weeks old and one 7 weeks old. I helped out this weekend. We fed them a mixture of prescription cat food and milk mix a few times a day with a 10ml syringe, cleaned out their infected …
Here’s Waldo.
Here I was thinking that Chris Pirillo mentioned me on his blog, but it turns out that I am, in fact, a huge loser. Story of my life, I tell you whut.
Undue sympathies.
After the University of Virginia declined me admission last month, and The Hook did an article last week, it seems that I’ve become the town dumping ground for UVa gripe stories. People expect that I must be bitter or in some way spiteful towards UVa, blaming them for all of life’s woes, and so they …
Beachin’.
Off to Virginia Beach for the weekend. Just in time for the rain.
Virginia Tech visit.
The visit to Virginia Tech today went quite nicely. Blacksburg seems like a pleasant town. Much of it is very rural, which surprised me. I’d worried that I would need to live some miles out of town in order to have a nice house in the country, but it turns out that I can do …
Local Man Pathetic
I don’t know whether to be embarassed or flattered. I’m trying both simultaneously, and it’s not really working out. The good news for Charlottesvillians is that they won’t have to read about me in the paper for a couple of years, which is really something to be grateful for. At this point, I figure that …