Julie slowly pulling open the door! Turns out my "bathroom buddy" (we can hardly call one another "roommates" as we only share the bathroom) had just arrived this morning and was checking out the "digs". She went to unpacking as I hopped in the shower (with barely any room to turn around) and got ready for the day.
First stop - GSLIS. Located directly across the street from our dorm, the travel time was great. :) We walked up to the office, picked up spiffy nametags, filled in our I-Card applications (surprised Apple hasn't sued about this name yet), and headed up to the GSLIS Tech Help Desk. Super friendly staff helped us mount printers (which is not as dirty as it sounds) and answered all sorts of various and sundry techie-type questions.Next up - Illini Union Bookstore to get an I-Card.
I actually had to turn in my I-Card from my undergrad years *SNIFF!* - they cut it up and gave me the picture back (gee, thanks). I have to say, I am MUCH happier with the new pic, but there is something sad about giving up an ID I've had since 1996...Back to GSLIS for a whirlwind morning of introductions and overviews. I have to say, this is a group of VERY funny folks... lots of members of "English Majors Anonymous". Part of my introduction was revealing that one of my LEEP classmates was also one of my junior high classmates. We didn't run in the same circles at all back then, but she looks SO similar to her junior high self (and believe me, this is a compliment) that there was no mistaking her. She, however, has not figured out that I was referring to her yet... stay tuned...
At lunch, met some more LEEP'ers and headed to Zorba's. YUM. I did, however, smell like a gyro for the rest of the day.
The session back at GSLIS after lunch was PAINFUL. Not because the content was so bad (we got spend some QT with Jill & Karla from tech - so funny), but I needed a NAP.
Somewhere in this time I also discovered that I am sorta tardy in applying for financial aid. Ooops.
Walked downstairs to do tech stuff (surf the web, check email, update Facebook/Twitter because I'd done the mounting already). :)
Back upstairs for "LEEP Unplugged" - a panel of current and former GSLIS students answering our burning questions. I couldn't even ask mine out of sheer embarrassment ("How hard should we work on this 500 word Mill paper?") - but hear great questions and answers about how the LEEP'ers past had discovered their LIS calling, where they see LIS headed, and how they went about designing their own courses of study.
Ended the day eating pizza and bemoaning the fact that I still had 400 words left to write on how the tenets of Mill's "On Liberty Chapter 2" applied to a contemporary issue in LIS.Our rooms are like jail cells, so here I sit, in the lobby of Sherman Hall, where I finally finished my Mill paper only minutes ago. Wanted to get as much of this day typed out as I could before it was lost to my memory... due to the space being needed for readings.
They had to confiscate my UIC I-Card. It was sad to part with a card that gave me access to some great books, but when she told me I could keep the picture, I asked her to shred it with the rest of the card. She agreed with me that my new picture was a major improvement >.<
ReplyDeleteMine, too! :D (Though I did opt to keep the '96 pic... sing it with me... "Memories... light the corners of my mind...") xD
ReplyDeleteI can't take it! This is hilarious! Uh, could you lose the ever-so-flattering pic of me and co?
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