I’m looking at the dining hall menus for tomorrow and they’re serving both quinoa and wheat berries. WTF? What’s next, amaranth and millet?
In other news, yay school. Also, aaaaaugh! School!
So I moved in today.
My room is pretty sweet - looks out over the roof deck and the lake…when I lie on my bed all i see out the window is trees and blue sky.
I saw Ariel and Meng, who live in singles right next to each other, and Kristin, who’s living in a double.
I’m excited to be back, but I’m also anxious about having to gear up for school. It kind of caught me by surprise and I’m not quite ready. Buying books tomorrow may cement the seriousness.
I also have a staff meeting tomorrow! Because I’m TAing a biology course, I’m expected to attend at least the first staff meeting. Yikes.
I played the new version of Risk tonight. Same board, same basic rules and gameplay, a few twists.
1. There are cities and capitols - the cities are randomly distributed and give you a territory bonus for the draft, while you need to control your own capitol to win and you can get bonus points for controlling enemy capitols.
2. You can still play in world domination mode, but you can also play an objective based game - there are 8 objectives on the board (like Control Asia, Control 18 territories, Capture 10 territories in 1 turn, etc), each with a certain bonus (Guaranteed Card, Attack die [allows a reroll], Extra Maneuver, etc.). 3 objectives to win.
There is a third gameplay mode but we didn’t try it.
In any case, it was my second game of Risk ever. In the first one it was down to me and Miles, and I threatened to never speak to him again for beating me. In this one we were playing with 3 others we didn’t know well, and despite the fact that one of them was a 17 year old arrogant little you-know-what, I won, and left the event without punching him.
(We also went to the county fair before playing board games…mostly looked at awesome horses and chickens and baby ducks)
Assuming I’m going to move back in to school on Monday, I should probably pack. Although theoretically I could move everything that’s already packed on Monday and take care of the rest on Tuesday. But I think it’s better to do it all in one go.
It’s just sinking in that i have 4 more days to screw around and then it’s time to buckle down and do something. 16 credits plus a TA…