first day at sleep-away college!!!!

Hey-o! It's been a long time since I have blogged...but you already knew that. Perhaps you are wondering, "where did Bryell go?" Well, in a nutshell, I have been pounding out the college courses, earning another 4.0 for the semester and bringing GPA back into a healthy range of 3.92.

So a few months ago, I was interviewed to be a part of the Bucknell Community College Scholars Program (hereafter referred to as The Program). Anyway, after a few agonizing weeks of waiting, I found out that I was accepted! Fast-forward to today...check in at Hunt Hall (hereafter referred to as The Homestead). Room 436 is where I will snore, tweeze, type, brew coffee, and wonder who hung the plant hook in the 100-year old ceiling, and what kind of plant I can hang there without killing...

Wowzers...so many firsts! First major block of time away from my kiddos (who are happily ensconced at Grammy's house in FL), first dorm room, first time really being away from home all by myself...first mini-fridge, red coffee pot, pair of shower shoes (more on that situation later...) and first cohort of friends with the same goals and aspirations as me. It's amazing here! The campus looks like a movie set, the TA's and RA's are amazing, and I think I fit in.

Our schedule for the weekend is literally planned for 12 solid hours, minute by minute. Goals for tomorrow include getting up at 615 to walk with another Program member, not being late for the pancake breakfast at 8, and not sweating profusely. Easily accomplished, you say? We shall see...

One thing that has struck me as just plain wrong is the sign hanging from the shower head...


For those of you without super-sonic eyesight (yes, I know that is not possible, you say! sonic would refer to sound, not sight, but track with me here...) it basically informs you, the naked showerer, that the showers at Bucknell use 2 gallons of water per minute, and that you should be mindful of how long you do in fact shower, so as to not waste water.

WHAT???

I, being the creative, think-outside-the-box genius that I am, have solved the problem...low-flow shower heads.

My work here is done.