Saturday - Sunday
On Saturday, I took my usual trip to the computer lab and discovered that it is not open on the weekends. Rats. Clearly, a day without the Internet was unacceptable so I went to the bookstores to use the sample computers. Soon after I arrived, I got a call from Jonathan saying that he and Amy had some soon-to-be-donated household items and that they wondered if I might want some of them to be donated to me. I thought that was a good idea so Rusty and I headed down to Cocoa. I didn’t actually go shopping through their to-donate pile that day. Instead, we ended up playing their Wii for quite some time. For a while it was all three of us playing the Rayman Raving Rabbids game. By the end, it was established that Jonathan was better than us at almost everything, Amy excelled at the music and dancing games, and I could play the football game better than at least Jonathan. Afterwards, Jonathan and I played Zelda Twilight Princess well into the night/morning. I wasn’t actually playing, but I did serve as a bit of Jonathan’s memory of the game (since he hadn’t played in a year) and as a constant source of temptations such as, “Oh, you haven’t gotton the magic armor yet,” and ,”Have you gone through the dungeon where you can get unlimited fairies?”
I did finally go through the to-donate pile and am now the proud owner of several good pots and pans, some more sheets and towels, an ironing board, and most wonderfully a vacuum cleaner. Hoorah! In their endless generosity, Amy and Jonathan also took me with them on their shopping trip to BJs to get me some cereals and other dried goods to stock my kitchen. I’m still on a tight budget until my first paycheck, but this will definitely make things easier.
Jonathan and Amy also offered to dog-sit while I’m on my trip next week. Since bringing Rusty back next week would cost another tank of gas. I decided to go ahead and just leave him there when I headed back to Gainesville. When I did get back to Gainesville, I realized just how empty the apartment seems without him. This is going to be a very lonely week. However, I think Rusty is more comfortable in Amy and Jonathan’s more air-conditioned house. I’m going to have to turn down my thermostat when he gets back.
So I’ve officially been here for over a week, and I’m still alive. I don’t think I’ll continue these day by day posts, but we’ll see.