The Exodus
by Chet
The fall 2007 semester has come to an end. I have never been so glad to see a semester go away, but this particular fall was more difficult than any others. It wasn’t because of the course load. I only took 15 hours, are you kidding me? Then I had a lot of intro level classes; so what made this semester so difficult? It was one stinking class, Philosophy 262: Critical Thinking. I hated this class. I wasn’t interested in it at all. I took it because it seemed like it would be easy enough. I don’t know why I thought it was easy, it’s not like I have the best logic skills. I had to actually work hard in the class, and not because the subject was difficult but because I had no desire what so ever to study. Well the semester is over, and I am done with the class. There is an upside to the class though. I managed to pull an A.
All semester long we have been planning on moving off campus and into a town house/apartment. The complex is brand new and has been under construction all semester long. Our house was supposed to be ready for us by December 14, but due to unforeseen problems with the failure of a construction company that was hired to build the complex, our house still isn’t ready(It’s December 24 by the way.). On December 14 we had to be out of our dorm rooms. Except we had nowhere to put our stuff, luckily for us we had a big closet in an empty office for us to put our stuff! Yay us right?
I thought now we had it all figured it out, we would load everything up in the car and bring it over the closet and everything would be great. Little did I know that it would take almost 5 trips to this closet, that number includes some trips after we thought we had stored everything.
This little adventure taught me a few things:
- Friends can live together but they should try to move together.
- By moving together I don’t mean moving-in together. I mean the actual act of taking their belongings from one residence and putting them at another at the same time. The three of us each have different ideas on how things work and each of us wants things done our way. So of course arguments ensued. On second thought, I didn’t really care how things got moved as long as they got moved. My two friends were the ones that had major issues with everything the other one said. One of them said that they get along great together except when they were both trying to accomplish the same goal at the same time. This my readers is why friends should not move together.
- By moving together I don’t mean moving-in together. I mean the actual act of taking their belongings from one residence and putting them at another at the same time. The three of us each have different ideas on how things work and each of us wants things done our way. So of course arguments ensued. On second thought, I didn’t really care how things got moved as long as they got moved. My two friends were the ones that had major issues with everything the other one said. One of them said that they get along great together except when they were both trying to accomplish the same goal at the same time. This my readers is why friends should not move together.
- People who have spent their entire driving experience driving a vehicle with a standard transmission should not drive an automatic.
- Do you really want to know? Guy got in car, guy moved car, guy tried to clutch, guy braked really hard and threw me into the dash board. Therefore, he should not drive automatic vehicles. I mean I realize that some people have the talent to drive both transmission types in the same day, but apparently some people just shouldn’t.
- Do you really want to know? Guy got in car, guy moved car, guy tried to clutch, guy braked really hard and threw me into the dash board. Therefore, he should not drive automatic vehicles. I mean I realize that some people have the talent to drive both transmission types in the same day, but apparently some people just shouldn’t.
- If you ever move, make sure that you pay close attention to which bag or bags you put your driver’s license, credit cards, debit cards, and student ID.
- This was cool. We went to Blockbuster to drop off some videos before we left Huntsville. When we got there girlfriend discovered that she had absolutely no idea where any of her cards were. So we bailed out of the car and started pulling bags out. Ten minutes later she finds them, well she found her credit cards anyway. Where did she find them you wonder? In the first darn bag that she pulled out of the car.
- This was cool. We went to Blockbuster to drop off some videos before we left Huntsville. When we got there girlfriend discovered that she had absolutely no idea where any of her cards were. So we bailed out of the car and started pulling bags out. Ten minutes later she finds them, well she found her credit cards anyway. Where did she find them you wonder? In the first darn bag that she pulled out of the car.
None of these things are really that big a deal. It’s actually all really fun to laugh at now that it’s over. I don’t think I would ever do it again. Next time I think we should just hire someone to help us. It could be better in the long run. I especially don’t want to ever be leaving Huntsville for three hours.
Alas, it is Christmas Eve my friends and I will be taking another break from blogging. I know that it’s taken me a week to get this out, but it’s the holidays. I am spending lots of time with the family. Wow. I love family time. Maybe I’ll write a blog about my family whenever I get back to Huntsville.