What's your Orientation?

The big item on this week's menu is Orientation. (It being Orientation Week.) Yes, I'm at university. Yes, I'm in residence. Yes, I met my real live roommate. She's sweet!

Orientation as a whole though, I'm not so sure about. It's a lot of cheering and icebreaking and awkward chit chat. So not my forté. Also there's a bit of dancing, which just adds to the horrendous mismatch of Lee/Orientation. That's okay though, once the academics start up I'm sure I'll miss the fun and games.

I'll post a picture of my dorm once it looks less like an empty white room. I do have two posters up but it's a big room (yay!) so they look lonely. Any suggestions?

On Sunday I was feeling the gloom of loneliness and despair. Not in a huge way, but it was there. Since then, things have perked up, and I've met some people who may or may not be cool. (They seem to be cool, but one never knows!) We'll see how the rest of the week goes, I suppose.

I can already tell that Evie – if she chooses to go to university within the next few years – won't have any trouble fitting in. Age is no issue, and we're all strangers so you don't really need to know people. You get to know people.

Now may be a good time to chipper up anew.

Love you RELMies,

Lee

Edit to add: My favourite Lady Gaga song has recently become Paparazzi. A week ago, I didn't even like her stuff! Now I'm gaga over Gaga. (That pun is probably overused.) Video? Not sure, but maybe Telephone, for all its cartoony and sinister charm.