For Those Who Feel The Need To Share All of Their Banal Details Part 3- Page 154

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 7:22pm

NemoNemoNemo! Times infinity!

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 7:27pm

I am so. incredibly. bored. I was bored at *my* orientation, so my brother's is basically torturous.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 7:28pm

There is a black...thing inside my pinky toe, under my skin. I tried to get it out, and it started to bleed. So now I am soaking it in water.

Today I got in an argument with my coworkers/friends about the importance of correctly placed apostrophes and commas. They said it wasn't important. They're wrong.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 7:30pm

It's probably just a blood blister.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 7:31pm

No, it's not. There is a physical object inside my toe. It is not wood, either.

ETA: I finally got it out!

Updated On: 7/11/06 at 07:31 PM

Posted: 7/11/06 at 7:39pm

I'm sorry, Ash. Why are your at your brother's orientation?

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 8:02pm

What was it, Elphie?

Thanks, Lexi. My mother just dragged me along so she'd have company, and since I've been through all this starting college stuff before (and took care of most of it on my own), she was hoping I could help out my relatively cluelss brother. It hasn't been particularly eventful, though. Basically, I'm just whining.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 8:06pm

How much longer do you have to stay?

Elphie, what ended up being in your toe? I'm glad you got it out.

I ate too fast. I might throw up.

I called my mom a while ago and she said they're having one of the worst storms she's ever seen at home; it was pouring sideways, and there's terrible thunder and lightning. My pool might overflow and the front door is leaking.

Updated On: 7/11/06 at 08:06 PM

Posted: 7/11/06 at 8:09pm

I can sympathize, though. Orientation itself was pretty horrible and boring; meeting new people and exploring the area was the fun part. The absolute worst is the forced icebreakers, especially the ones that make you pretend to be an inanimate object. I'm 18 years old, if I want to talk to you, I'll make a point to do so without games.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 8:10pm

We leave tomorrow afternoon, but then it's a 7 hour drive home.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 8:11pm

Oh, dear. Elaborate on that game.

Posted: 7/11/06 at 8:14pm

The token theatre freak in our group suggested it. It involved forming a circle of people and someone standing in the center. The center person would point a person in the group calling out different objects, and the person had to transform him or herself into that object before the person in the center counted to five.

Totally not kidding. Everyone loved it, though, so I'm probably just lame.

ETA: Emcee, you have a pool?! Whoa. Updated On: 7/11/06 at 08:14 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 8:15pm

Yikes. I would have hated that.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 8:18pm

Ooh, awkward orientation games. Surprisingly, Chris hasn't really had to do any of that.... there's not much, like, splitting up of the parents and students. We were all together most of the day. I wish there were interesting areas to explore, but not so, at least that I've seen.

Posted: 7/11/06 at 8:21pm

Despite the awkward orientation games, I'm happy that NYU ushered the parents into another area for a bit of the time and then basically just told them to leave.

A group of girls and I walked around some of the West and East Villages late at night. Probably not the best idea, but I felt safe the entire time. They were all Rent fans (I think it's some sort of a prerequisite to get into NYU), so naturally, we were all, "Oooh, Mark and Roger." (probably shouldn't be publicly admitting this...)

[Dancinqueen123]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 8:45pm

I just found out that my brother has about half of the broadway CDs that I want on his iTunes! Yay!!! Now I won't have to rob a bank to get the ones that I want!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 9:10pm

I'm boooooored.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 9:20pm

I was REALLY late to school this morning.
I almost missed my tap class.
The toe taps came off both of my shoes, so I had to do everything in jazz shoes.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 9:22pm

Is there a GOOD reason that it almost constantly rains/storms in S. Florida?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 9:24pm

Ecology.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 9:32pm

I am dreading, absolutely dreading, orientation. I am sooo bad at going up to people and being like, "Hi! How are you! I'm me!!!" (Note the excessive use of exclamation points.) Everyone else always seems so good at it.

I don't really know what was in my toe. It was black, but it wasn't hard or pointy. I think it was a piece of tar from the bottom of the pool, from when I scraped my foot.

ss- What school is your brother going to?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 9:36pm

So am I, Elphie, which is why I tend to appreciate "mixers" and stuff, as long as they're not TOO lame.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 9:37pm

Whoa. WHOA. I just clicked on the favorites on this computer by accident, and all the favorites are, like, porn sites. "Big Boobs Girls", "Big Dick Gays", "Extreme Sex". There are about 20 of them. These people are so WIERD. First the voodoo doll of Guliani with pins in his heart and head, now this. *shudder*

Updated On: 7/11/06 at 09:37 PM

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 9:45pm

Aww, Elphie. It's not like that. Chances are you'll be wearing a name tag so you can skip the I'm me part. :-P

Really, most people are in the same boat as you. I felt the exact same way before my orientation. My mom skipped it and went shopping, so at our first "event" almost everyone was with parents, so it's not like I could approach if I wanted to. So I very timidly walked around, saying nothing. There was another girl doing the same. We passed each other twice, and though we both were shy, the third time, we both were kinda like okay we might as well talk at this point. And talk about luck on my part. I was wearing my Grease shirt so she said after a few sentences, she said she loves my shirt. Do I like musicals because she loves them. Haha. That was it, suddenly we both were extremely outgoing talking all about theatre. We're still friends.

Similar thing happened with the one other girl from orientation that I'm still friends with. At one event, I saw one of the girls who was in the room I was in, and talked to her and these other girls, and one of them turned out to be obsessed with theatre, so once again, I was totally outgoing.

Even if you don't have that, you know, they dorkily try to break the ice for you. At dinner they assigned us to "groups" where like an orientation student dude would sit with us and try to get us talking if we weren't already. You have the people in your room who you're in the room with, so you might as well talk. And then you find people who are in all your "events" and kind of stick with them. Most people I talked to I never saw again, but I got through it.

And I was terrified as well. You know how short I am, and I kept telling my mom that....everyone looks soo talllll

It's normal to be nervous, but you'll be fine

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 9:46pm

Elphie- whose computer are you on exactly?

Updated On: 7/11/06 at 09:46 PM