First Days At School

Today has been a pretty lazy day thus far--Stephanie and I walked to her room after eating lunch in Fresh Foods with Steph, Casey, and Blake, and now she is touching up some makeup before we head off to the Student Health Center and Men's Wearhouse to pick up a prescription and for me to try on tuxedos, respectively.
We arrived back on campus late Sunday morning, and after hastily unpacking Stephanie's car, we ate a quick lunch in Lakeside and then drove over to the rec center for our four-hour Avanti training session with the rest of the crew. The time was filled with various small--and large--group activities like relays, races, and cheer-making that encouraged working together toward a goal and creativity. Our first training session wrapped up with some catered Q'Doba victuals, and we cleaned out quite a bit of food.
That led up to our first orientation, Monday morning, starting at 6:45 in the Ferg. I worked the Campus Drive/McCorvey Drive corner by the Ferg parking deck with Toaster, and we talked a lot about the summer orientations, people that he had met, people we saw that day, crew, and other random stuff. I was glad to be outside, because for some reason, it was very hot and stuffy inside, and I would have been quite miserable had I been cooped up in the Ferg with lots of other people, standing behind a table!
My favorite parts of the day were running into the ballroom, where all the new students were sitting, and giving them a big excitement boost with an energetic rendition of the fight song, and also working with the business students in Bashinsky to get their schedule figured out for the semester. I met many interesting people, and I spent the first 40 minutes or so running between the two main lab rooms, being a courier for papers and forms that needed to be cleared for various students.
Today, I slept in, and then a little later in the morning I went down and started working with Stephanie on wedding planning items--or more correctly, I lounged and read WORLD as she talked to her mom and looked at prospective photographers. Afterward, I was moping a little because it was after noon already, and we--in reality, I--had not done anything yet, but she reminded me that she had indeed been taking care of things, and that I could have been, but I chose not to...I will be soon though, even if it is just trying on tuxedos. Meh.