Just finished checking in to Lincoln Hall at the EWC on the University of Hawaii campus. It's kinda weird: the hotel was a hotel, this sort of brings odd emotions and feelings. I know it is strange that in a six story building that the odds of me getting the same exact room are pretty small. This time I have an end room on the 2nd floor, and it faces another dormitory window. Which means sleeping with the window shades open could be considered kinda strange. But without A/C (and that trade winds aren't here yet due to some odd weather) I am not quite sure how much breeze I am going to get in the room compared to the last time I stayed here. I face another dormitory, but I'll get used to it I am sure. I unpacked and filled the dressers, put my bathroom stuff away, etc. This is my home away from home for the next three weeks.
However, now I feel homesick. I am not sure why though? Maybe because its like when I went to live in England in 1992 and I had all these ideas about my room. Well this time I don't remember the room being quite this small (and I think the end rooms may be a bit smaller) but I'll get used to it. I have a bunch of work I need to do in the evenings (hello, dissertation) and I won't be in the room for most of the day due to classes. I do need to do laundry already, and I am going to leave in a short while and go grocery shopping (including getting much better toilet paper-god, whoever invented the cheapest quality toilet paper to be bought in bulk for institutions should be forced to use it for the rest of their lives!). When I get back, I'll see who is around, and what people want to do. I am sure many of them are going to want to go get dinner or see Waikiki but I also need to let my feet rest a bit. The fun part about going grocery shopping today? No car, so I have to limit what I am going to buy to what I can carry. Yay! But since I go walking up there every morning (time to get my normal exercise routine going since I want be hiking all about while sightseeing) I can always get things I need. It will be like living back in London or Hawaii before, when you get things from the supermarket almost every day or every other day.
Anyway, the fan is blowing, the curtains are open, and it is actually kinda tolerable with the fan at the highest setting. Time to go get some food, some exercise, and then settle in for the afternoon. It seems so weird that my day is just starting, but for everyone I know on the east coast, your day is coming to a close (its nearly 6:15 as I write this). For some reason that seems less weird that when I was living in London doing summer sessions when I was five hours ahead.
I'll post pictures later on of the fireworks and whatever else I haven't posted yet.
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