For the One Person Who Is Still Checking My Blog.

Whew! After a long hiatus -- maybe my longest one yet? -- I'm back. While I have had access to the internet (my nerdy-internet-dependency led me to schedule the installation weeks in advance for the day after Jamie and I were scheduled to arrive in Baltimore), all free time has been sucked into getting the apartment tolerable for inhabiting and getting otherwise situated to my new life.

What this has consisted of has been: IKEA. I had four glorious days of IKEA since it is very nearby to our apartment (a few minutes). In that time I have grown to love the store even more -- even though most things are still out of my budget. Suffice to say, Jamie and I were able to put together a pretty swank apartment. Come by and look! (Or maybe I will post pictures soon...if I'm feeling generous).

Our furniture is minimalistic...but I like it that way. I feel as though our best bargains were our brand new queen-sized bed for $129, our dining set (which included four chairs) for the same price, and our fine entertainment center for a whopping $30. The last one wasn't from IKEA, but rather a friend of mine from TFA. I feel so grown up and our apartment smells like plywood....mmmmmmmm.

After several trips back and forth carrying huge boxes and assembling many pieces of furniture, I think we are moved in for the most part. We just have to unpack said boxes and organize it. Now that I have started TFA post-induction this process will be much slower. But it'll get done.

Too much money has been spent. I'd rather not think about that: moving on.

To update on the NBC thing: I'm not doing it. *HUGE sigh of relief*. I'm a bit surprised, though, at the twinge of regret that I feel for a lost opportunity to possibly affect more change on a grander scale. This will surely pass when I want to jump out a window in October and it crosses my mind how much happier I am that there will not be a camera crew to capture my student-induced hysteria.

For now, I have to get back to doing all of those papers that I was supposed to be doing over the summer for my Johns Hopkins courses. Five 10 page papers...due tomorrow. I have done one -- rather hastily, too. Ahhh....it feels like Williams again.