I came home after 12 hours on campus to an empty house and huge black ants all over something in the trash (which wasn’t mine) and had to stand there for 15 minutes (while freaking out) and drown them with the Raid I’d conveniently bought a few hours earlier. I hope trash day is tomorrow ’cause our can is full, and all the houses on 42 have theirs by the curb … but no one on this street does, so I dunno. I also had to kill a spider in the bathroom.

Had my first taste of “upperclassdom” today. My typography class is gonna kill me — the professor is nice, but it’s at 8 am, we have a project due Wednesday on material that he didn’t go over, when almost no one has their books or supplies (which are needed for the project), and will take hours to finish with rusty Illustrator skills (which he doesn’t possess). I tried to do as much as I could today for my other classes (finished sawing brass in Metals and prepared yarn in Weaving, though I don’t think I did it right since I have no fuckin’ idea what I’m doing … she just wanted us to memorize the way it was wound on the wooden pegs) so I’d have time to shop tomorrow morning and put together something that doesn’t suck *sigh* I can’t believe I have two more classes to buy shit for … isn’t $250 in lab fees and $100+ in supplies enough? Oh yeah, and on Mondays and Wednesdays I don’t get to eat lunch. Since I have class from 8 - 4 and have to use every minute so I don’t get behind on the tedious, labor-intensive projects, my “lunch” will consist of whatever I feel like from the newly-discovered vending machines in Duke (today was Cherry Coke and pretzels).

And what is up with everything at JMU being different? Nothing was changed last year! There’s a new ATM, new tennis court steps, Dukes is being rebuilt, TDU is completely flipped, there’s a weird window addition thing in Wilson, the salad bar line at D-hall is different, and probably more that I have yet to come across. This year is off to a shaky start.