So now I’ve officially been to Gainesville. My parents and I went apartment hunting there this past weekend. I had a list of seven or eight places that I had originally wanted to take a look at. After we saw the first place, I had scratched four of them off of my list. How, you ask? Because I noted that they didn’t have washers and dryers in them, and after taking a look at the first place’s “laundry facilities”, I knew that a washer and dryer was a necessity, not an option.

So we looked at a few other places before deciding upon a complex called Hidden Lake. It’s very new; in fact, I’ll be the first person ever to live in my apartment. I’m about a mile and a half away from campus, but the buildings I’ll be going to the most are on the other side of the campus. So I’m really about 2 1/2 miles away.

Anyway, we set a move-in date, and paid all the up-front fees (that is to say, my parents paid them 🙂 ). Come late July, I’ll be in Gainesville for good!

Notes on the trip and other things:

• I’ll just come right out and say it…Gainesville has the worst street-numbering system ever. Here’s an idea of how it works. Gainesville consists of approximately 15 different zip codes. If you cross into another zip code, street numbers can be (and will be) used again. This may be fine for the locals, but for tired newcomers who just want to know where NW 23rd Blvd. is, it’s not good. On our trusty map, we found multiple NW 23rd Streets, Terraces, Places, Avenues, and even a Court or two. But no boulevards. Even if we had found one, we’d have to know the zip code. We eventually wised up and started calling the apartments for directions from one place to another. I get the feeling that map’s going to get some use from me in the future…
• The campus is huge. I’m not sure how I can emphasize this. I know that I didn’t see even a quarter of the campus. It’s not quite like Alabama, where driving on the perimeter of the campus lets you see a good portion of it.
• The bus system in Gainesville is apparently a big thing. Such a big thing, in fact, that practically every complex we talked to touted their closeness to the nearest bus stop. I guess it beats trying to find a parking space among potentially 50,000+ cars. And it’s free for me, since I’m a Florida student. Rock on!

Well, at least this time my staying up until 5 in the morning resulted in something productive.

Fueled by a burst of inspiration, I’ve started sketching details on a pretty big project I’m looking at starting up. It will be my first foray into creative writing in quite some time. Hopefully, it won’t take too long to complete, and then you’ll get to see it here.

Tonight, there will be a meeting of 1122 Productions management to discuss the organization’s future web plans. Oh, yeah, and we’ll probably play some Playstation or something too. But most importantly, tonight…we grill!

More 1122 stuff: the 1122 timeline has been updated to reflect the events of the past nine months or so.

Did anyone else watch VH1’s “Top 100 One-hit wonders” last night? It was really enjoyable. I had the most fun, actually, from two things: getting that “Oh, yeah! I totally forgot about them!” feeling when the next song was introduced (that happened quite often) and from trying to guess what the biggest one-hit wonders would be. I did reasonably well. My choice for #1 at the beginning of the broadcast (“Ice Ice Baby”) ended up #7. Once I saw what was voted #1, though, I had to wholeheartedly agree. I couldn’t believe I hadn’t thought of it.