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May. 20th, 2006 02:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sam_gamgeeI feel like I should get a shirt that says "I Survived UMCP!" (University of Maryland, College Park)
So Matt and I left Monday morning at 7 to go down to help them for part of their buyback period*. We got down there at 11. This drive takes approximately 2 hours. A big chunk of the time was due to me only knowing we were going somewhere south of Baltimore and north of D.C. and Matt knowing, but not being 100% sure and then missing the exact fork in the exit. So, a lot of backtracking ensued. We worked until 8 pm, which was when the store closed. It wasn't hard work - a lot of typing ISBNs into a computer, telling students what they could get for the books, and then moving the books around, and stickering them if necessary.
On Tuesday, it was much of the same, except the hours were 9 to 8. Matt got lucky - he was out on remote** most of the time. I was stuck in the store/student center's basement all day. Tuesday night, we decided to venture out and find somewhere to eat that wasn't right next to the hotel. I had been told that there were a bunch of restaurants (a "restaurant row", if you will) along the main road. Well, after passing a bunch of sandwich shops and such about a block and a half from the campus, we kinda figured that that had been it since we moved into a residential area and then into a ghetto and then into a somewhat nicer area. We happened across a place called Franklin's that billed itself as a "restaurant, brewery, and general store". The food was okay and the service on the slow side, but the store had some cool stuff in it.
Wednesday was pretty cool, even if I had to be into work by 8:30, seeing as how I was out at a remote by 10. And the even cooler part was I was all by myself and I've never been on remote before. The students came in spurts - which is pretty normal. In between, I was able to putz about on the internet and ended up reading fic. Even got through most of the month of February of Dr. Jackson's Diary. (Which is a very fun fic and you should all read it.) We left about 4-ish to head home. The downside to the day was that Matt had gotten sick the night before, more than likely, he thinks, due to food poisoning. I tried to make him let me drive, but could only get him to agree to partially driving, saying that driving for a while would help him keep his mind off how he was feeling. So, he drove to Ellicott City before having to stop. From there, I took over and drove the rest of the way. Due to some technical difficulties with his car, we were using his parents' car - which is a Mazda 6. I really like that car. Finally got back into Newark at about 6:30.
Then Wednesday night,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nakedwesley came up (or would that be down, since she was coming from work?) so we could go see Common Rotation play. It was a living room show of a college student, with the opening act being the Deltones, an on-campus a capella group that said college student was/is a part of. eatstake and her friend D----- also ended up showing up. The whole thing was a lot of fun, as CoRo's shows usually are.
I can now officially say that I am caught up on season 2 of "Stargate: Atlantis". And I will have to wait like everyone else for new episodes. Well, maybe a little longer, since I won't be home when they air. Unless I can fin a sneaky way to get my relatives to let me have the tv that night. I do have to say that overall, I liked season 2 much better than season 1. I love Carson and Zelenka. Ronon's just plain cool. And Sheppard's pretty kick ass. And it was weird listening to Rodney's plan in "Inferno" and thinking, "That actually makes sense," seeing as how I'm so not a science person. And, I'm also waiting for John's Big Gay Reveal (tm). :-P (Because, honestly, it's so there.)
And I shall be starting SG-1's season 9 tomorrow night, though I will admit that I am a bit nervous, just because Jack's not going to be in it any more. Though, I have heard a lot of good things about season 9 and Vala and Cam, so I guess it's just a fear of the unknown.
And I'm sure thatlibralyte will be happy to know that I've started watching season 2 of "Dead Like Me."
Just as an FYI - new Queer Eye episodes will be starting on June 6th at 10pm. And SG-1 s10 and SGA s3 will be starting on July 14th.
* Students sell back their books for a percentage of the original cost and the store turns the books around and resells them for a slightly higher price (but still under the original cost).
** Satellite location for the bookstore to also buy books back, to make it more accessible for the students and therefore give them further reason to sell back to us and not the competition.
So Matt and I left Monday morning at 7 to go down to help them for part of their buyback period*. We got down there at 11. This drive takes approximately 2 hours. A big chunk of the time was due to me only knowing we were going somewhere south of Baltimore and north of D.C. and Matt knowing, but not being 100% sure and then missing the exact fork in the exit. So, a lot of backtracking ensued. We worked until 8 pm, which was when the store closed. It wasn't hard work - a lot of typing ISBNs into a computer, telling students what they could get for the books, and then moving the books around, and stickering them if necessary.
On Tuesday, it was much of the same, except the hours were 9 to 8. Matt got lucky - he was out on remote** most of the time. I was stuck in the store/student center's basement all day. Tuesday night, we decided to venture out and find somewhere to eat that wasn't right next to the hotel. I had been told that there were a bunch of restaurants (a "restaurant row", if you will) along the main road. Well, after passing a bunch of sandwich shops and such about a block and a half from the campus, we kinda figured that that had been it since we moved into a residential area and then into a ghetto and then into a somewhat nicer area. We happened across a place called Franklin's that billed itself as a "restaurant, brewery, and general store". The food was okay and the service on the slow side, but the store had some cool stuff in it.
Wednesday was pretty cool, even if I had to be into work by 8:30, seeing as how I was out at a remote by 10. And the even cooler part was I was all by myself and I've never been on remote before. The students came in spurts - which is pretty normal. In between, I was able to putz about on the internet and ended up reading fic. Even got through most of the month of February of Dr. Jackson's Diary. (Which is a very fun fic and you should all read it.) We left about 4-ish to head home. The downside to the day was that Matt had gotten sick the night before, more than likely, he thinks, due to food poisoning. I tried to make him let me drive, but could only get him to agree to partially driving, saying that driving for a while would help him keep his mind off how he was feeling. So, he drove to Ellicott City before having to stop. From there, I took over and drove the rest of the way. Due to some technical difficulties with his car, we were using his parents' car - which is a Mazda 6. I really like that car. Finally got back into Newark at about 6:30.
Then Wednesday night,
nakedwesley came up (or would that be down, since she was coming from work?) so we could go see Common Rotation play. It was a living room show of a college student, with the opening act being the Deltones, an on-campus a capella group that said college student was/is a part of. eatstake and her friend D----- also ended up showing up. The whole thing was a lot of fun, as CoRo's shows usually are.I can now officially say that I am caught up on season 2 of "Stargate: Atlantis". And I will have to wait like everyone else for new episodes. Well, maybe a little longer, since I won't be home when they air. Unless I can fin a sneaky way to get my relatives to let me have the tv that night. I do have to say that overall, I liked season 2 much better than season 1. I love Carson and Zelenka. Ronon's just plain cool. And Sheppard's pretty kick ass. And it was weird listening to Rodney's plan in "Inferno" and thinking, "That actually makes sense," seeing as how I'm so not a science person. And, I'm also waiting for John's Big Gay Reveal (tm). :-P (Because, honestly, it's so there.)
And I shall be starting SG-1's season 9 tomorrow night, though I will admit that I am a bit nervous, just because Jack's not going to be in it any more. Though, I have heard a lot of good things about season 9 and Vala and Cam, so I guess it's just a fear of the unknown.
And I'm sure that
libralyte will be happy to know that I've started watching season 2 of "Dead Like Me."Just as an FYI - new Queer Eye episodes will be starting on June 6th at 10pm. And SG-1 s10 and SGA s3 will be starting on July 14th.
* Students sell back their books for a percentage of the original cost and the store turns the books around and resells them for a slightly higher price (but still under the original cost).
** Satellite location for the bookstore to also buy books back, to make it more accessible for the students and therefore give them further reason to sell back to us and not the competition.
