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So the orientation was yesterday, right? Right. I kind of remember it. It was such a long day. And I was so exhausted I just went to bed as soon as I got home. But I can kind of remember orientation.

So I got to the school and stood in one line only to stand in another line and then they pointed out this horribly cold room they wanted me to sit in for about two hours. Did I mention how cold it was? So they went over some basics. How glad they are to have us, how there are 110 different languages spoken at this college, how people from all over the world come here, how you will never see so much ethnicity and culture in one place again. Things like that. And a quick over view of the Laramie project.

Then we seperated into smaller groups into smaller rooms that were even more cold to discuss the book. I don't think they liked what I said because the program was faculty run and the teacher seemed to just stare at me and give me the whole 'ookaaaay' kind of thing, which pissed me off. So I stopped contributing to the conversation and just listened to everyone elses comments that basically could have been read out of the book. Oh well.

After that, I think, we got together into acadamies, so I met a whole bunch of people interested in the healths, and they did a raffle to win $25 for Barnes and Noble. I didn't win, but I don't care. I can get my own books, I hope. From there everyone went to get a free snack or something. I went to the Leadership and Diversity conference where you got a free lunch and got to talk about things like that.

That's where I met Kimberly. I noticed she was walking with one of those canes blind people use. She is basially blind but can see a little bit. At least four feet in front of her. And she has to be really close to paper to read it. But we started talking and it turns out she wanted to go in for vet tech too and was pissed at her family for saying she couldn't do it just because of her sight. She isn't fully blind.

Anyway, so we hung out after the conference and went to 14th in Manhattan and grabbed some pizza and I applied for some places to work. Then she asked if I would like to come back to her house, meet her folks and stuff, and I said sure. So we went there, which saddly was near Jamaica so I was like, how am I going to get home? And when 11:30 rolled around I was like...shit...I don't want to have to take the subway. But I didn't have to. They wanted to drive me home because it was so late at night. And so hence, they did. And I got home really late and I was so utterly exhausted that I just went to sleep. And now I'm kind of kicking myself for it because I got all these messages from Ethan and I had my volume off so it is obvious why I didn't reply to him and I actually could have talked to him last night and well, just grr! But he's having fun. And orientation wasn't too bad. And now I think I'll grab breakfast and fiddle on my computer. I'm sick of going out. I want to stay home today.

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I decided there were two things I needed today. One was to be more NYC-ish. So I bought some new clothes. *grins* Pictures will come about shortly.

Two?

Groceries. *grins*

NYC is CRAZY!

So, I was like, I deserve to eat out tonight. I remembered seeing a thai place on the corner and I was dying for some chicken satays. But there was no one in the restaurant! Grr! So I started wandering down Broadway to see what was there. At one point I hit an area of construction and there were a bunch of cars just parked around doing nothing for no good reason. And all of a sudden I heard my name my whole name (Laura Katt), in a very very thick, barely understandable accent. It was an Indian guy in a great big town car. I took a step closer and he mumbled something incomprehensible. "What?" He asked if I went to Laguardia, and I said yes, because I do. And he told me to step closer, come here, and I took a step back and was like 'No, I'm just wandering around' and quickly sidestepped the car and ducked into the first restaurant I saw. A Vietnemese restaurant.

And that is the story as to how I ended up eating lemongrass chicken with Jasmine rice tonight.

Oh yeah. And how crazy fucked up some people in NYC are.

*sigh*

Feeling cold and lonely. Mmph.

I guess I'm going to hang out a bit with Kimberly tomorrow, although I had wanted to do my laundry.

No. It's a lie. I really want to just sleep for a few days. My poor feet are cramped and muscles are pulled in them and they just ache like nothing else. Poor feet.

I can't figure out why I feel so cold and alone. I guess I'll just curl up and go to sleep. I seem not able to stay up as late as I used to or sleep very well at all anymore. I wonder why?