FIVE somewhat-atypical things to get excited about (!!!)

1. A new room. “Hmm, what am I going to do with this foot tall owl decoy? Oh, duh. Obviously put it in my closet in Odell. Or on my windowsill.” Seriously, one of the best parts about college is having a room that is all yours (okay, maybe half yours. or a third. or a fourth. whatever). When I left for boarding school, I came home to find that my mom had sold my bed. “Oh, honey, we really wanted this air hockey table, so I sold your bed.” Well, thanks mom. Can I sleep on it? No, of course not. (she did the same thing with my bicycle and my pet bunny). I slept on the couch for TWO YEARS.

But AT COLLEGE, I can come back to my room and my bed will still be there, along with my owl decoy and chili lights and other assorted special things. A dorm room is like a great, ugly, blank canvas, waiting for you to make it THE MOST AWESOME THING EVER.

2. Those gazebo things on campus. Where is that, lower campus? By the reflecting pool. I love those things. When it’s nice and kinda dusky out it’s good to sit there and dangle your feet off the edge. What have I experienced in those dimly lit little gazebo ledge things? Endless guitar playing with Spackman, a fabulous post-break up haircut by Blankenshiz, many arguments with CLeja-they are truly magical places. To do whatever. Except for homework.

3. Homework. Quite atypical for me, the eternal slacker, to jump for joy about. But then I think about what I did today. I woke up. I went and watched my family consume gigantic lobster rolls. I went to the beach. Wow, that’s all very emotionally taxing and all-wait, no it isn’t. I need to make my brain work hard again.

4. PioFair/Having the code to both Unisex AND the Womyn’s Center. I HAVE INFINITE POWER. Maybe I can start a war between both groups. That would be exciting, right? And I’ve totally switched sides. I’m with the Womyn now. The Womyn’s Center would totally win because we’re smarter and better and smarter and better and…

I like clubs, clubs are good. Clubs are how I met 76.3% of my friends. And PioFair is when you walk around and see all the clubs that you have the possibility of joining. It’s like an all you can eat buffet, but with…clubs. Oh yes, I am going to be a writer someday. Can you tell? Maybe I’ll actually for real join sailing club this year, instead of fake-joining like last year.

5. Being back in Portland (this isn’t really atypical because Portland rocks). I love Portland. My favorite places are:

• Stumptown Coffee at the Ace Hotel (12th & Stark, I believe). This place is sweet, totally not your grandfather’s morning coffee place.
• Powells Books, because they will definitely have at least two copies of Feminism and Pop Culture, while there aren’t any copies of it on the entire little hook thing of Cape Cod.
• the Escape. Can I tell you why? How censored is this blog? I’ll just leave you imagining.

SanSai sushi place on 23rd. Holy god best sushi place ever. I’d totally get married there, have a baby shower there, have another important milestone celebrated there, and the service would still be as bad. You can rely on it!

This was going to be a list of SEVEN somewhat-atypical things to get excited about but my friend wants to go to sleep and I have to drive seven hours tomorrow. You know how it goes.