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So since I'm not going anywhere, maybe I'll make a post, yes?
Yesterday ... oh my gosh, yesterday. I got out of Chemistry early and bought a muffin from the SUB cause I ran out of Pop-Tarts on Thursday. Then I went to work a bit early, which was good, cause Tamera never showed up ...
Lynn got a date for the QuarkNet thing, so we put it on this flyer and started printing them to send them to schools. There were a little more than 75--plus, I had to include photocopies of ANOTHER flyer. These all had to be folded into thirds--I am now the MASTER of this. However, towards the end, the printer started making loud "BANG!" noises. One of them scared me so much I jumped in my seat. Marissa was trying to figure it out when I went to Physics.
Upon returning, I found that there had apparently been a pin in the printer ... randomly ...
So, I finished up the brochures and went to lunch, where Matt showed me something called "Celebrity Jeopardy." Poor Sean Connery ...
Then I went back to work for an hour, then to C++, where I finished the project I found was due that day.
After this, I went home and got my Sugar Mill application, and started for the SUB to drop off my backpack. On the way, I ran into Lan, and she offered to walk with me. When we got there, we asked what was available. The lady said she had a two-bedroom two-bath that we could move into on May 7th. We were thrilled! In order to hold it, she said, she would need a $150 deposit, plus our $50 application fees. I had an extra application, which I gave to Lan. However, the lady would only take money orders, which I didn't have.
So, Lan and I walked back to campus so I could get more money and my phone, and she could get her credit card and car. We drove to the bank, but the lady there said money orders cost $4, and they were 87 cents or something at Publix. So, we quickly drove there, slowly running out of time--Sugar Mill closed at 5:30. We got our money orders in an extremely long line, and I bought two bags of chips for the RP session which never happened.
We drove back to Sugar Mill, turned in our applications and fees, and then drove to the FITSSFF meeting which lasted a long time. I got a brand new FITSSFF T-shirt.
After the meeting, a bunch of us wanted to go out to eat, but we waited for Lan to get back from changing her laundry. People couldn't decide on where to eat, however, so one group left for the Rat, and the rest of us (me, George, Dana, Kat, Mike, and Ben) went to Friendlys. I had a Caesar salad (duh) and the Forbidden Fudge Brownie. It was very good.
After that, Kat dropped George and I off at the SUB so we could meet up with the others to role-play. However, apparently there was a Magic draft going on, so George and I went home.
Once there, Kat IMed me and invited me to go with her, Dana, George, and Mike to the beach, to watch the Atlas 3 rocket launch!!! After talking to Nicole, I met George in the parking lot and we drove to Kat and Dana's apartment in Sugar Mill. Their apartment is SO COOL--much better than Dan's or Mischa's--and their rooms are awesome!!! Kat even has the Arwen and Aragorn Barbies!!! So awesome ...
Then Mike arived, and we all went in his car up Route 1 to Cocoa Beach. We overpassed it, but did a quick U-turn and found the beach.
It was beautiful--there were no clouds, and the stars were bright. We could see the lights of Cape Canaveral across the ocean. The others had brought blankets, so they spread them out on the sand for us to sit on. We talked until It Happened.
All of a sudden, there was a bright orange light from Cape Canaveral that lit up the entire section of sky. After a couple seconds, that light rose from the ground, ascending into the sky. When it got high enough, it cast an orange light on the ocean waves. It was so magnificent. Then, something like 30 seconds later, we heard the rumble from the ignition. The rumble continued for a long time before it died out. The light tracked across the sky over the ocean, until the first sequence stopped and the light went out. But, the second rockets fired, and the light began again, though it was dimmer. It faded until it looked like a normal star, then eventually faded away.
We sat on the beach discussing what we had seen and how amazing it was, until someone said "What's that red thing on the horizon?"
It was the moon, and it was blood red. It was amazing. We watched it rise out of the ocean and into the sky until it turned orange. We left then, but Dana and I kept looking back at the moon and the ocean.
In the parking lot, we were next to a hotel and randomly saw a guy with George's hat inside ... it was creepy.
Driving back to Melbourne, Dana said we should go to Wal-Mart, so we did! Dana, Kat, and Mike got some shopping done. I would have, as well, but I left my card at home.
We got back to Dana and Kat's apartment and helped put their food away, then hung out in their living room. There was an awesome air mattress that I really liked--maybe I'll just get one of those for my Sugar Mill apartment!
George, Mike, and I left somewhere after 3, and George and I got gas at the Mobil station before he took me home. I went to bed at 3:45.
It was so amazing.
Anyways, update on the door situation: The locksmith came, and they had to slice open the window screen in the living room so he could get in and dismantle the lock from the inside. And the window screen was like, level 99 Uber Screen of Doom, so it was very hard to cut.
The locksmith said he wasn't going to diagnose what was wrong with the lock right now; they'd take the old lock back to the shop and tear it apart on Monday to find out what was wrong. They installed a new lock, but the handheld programmer won't work, so they had to call in this other girl to come in with a computer so that they could program our cards to work. Our cards now work, but for some reason we don't have to enter our numbers like we usually do at this hour. They'll fix that later.
I assume they had to call all these guys from home. And the thing is, this is a fire hazard, especially because those screens were VERY hard to break into. The lock guys told us that while this hasn't happened before, they KNEW this could happen and had told FIT not to get these kinds of locks. Each lock costs like, $500, too, and FIT's going to have to pay for the new one and the ripped screen.
Well, the door's fixed, I wrote about yesterday ... except for the door, nothing else happened. I woke up at 11:30, then slept from 4 until 7:30ish. Now I'm going to go buy chocolate.
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