Alarming news

This morning was the first in Lawrence that I haven’t set an alarm.

How fitting, then, that my smoke alarm, that industrial-strength banshee hanging from my ceiling, picked 10:00 a.m. sharp to open its mouth. As I and all the guys in my hall soon discovered, there’s no snooze button on this alarm, and no one had any idea how to shut it up. So after about ten minutes of being assaulted by the unrelenting shrill pitch, I pulled up a chair, lost five years of good hearing, and yanked the thing from its perch on the ceiling.

My ears will be ringing into next week.

Hi, I’m Nick, but you can just call me “the temp”

Apparently I’m in college now.

My hall had a theme for move-in day – The Office. In an amazing coincidence, last night I bought a shirt on a whim. And wore it this morning on a similar whim.

Michael Scott would be proud.

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EDIT: It’s only 6:30 pm on my first day and I’ve already learned two things to never do again.

• Walk the length of campus to a friend’s dorm in 100 degree heat (No one else was out on the sidewalk. At all. Oops.)
• Pile unknown Chinese food on my plate without first checking to see if it’s spicy or not. (Iced lemonade? I owe you one.)

Don’t worry, Google. I still like you.

I can’t deny it. I have a soft spot for Google. My Gmail has been open almost non-stop on my computer for 3 years, Google Maps is the best (true that, double true), Google News keeps me apprised of the latest shenanigans of the likes of Lindsay and Britney and Dubya, and Google Documents makes it easy to procrastinate on school assignments. So it was only a matter of time before I tried out Google Reader.