Moving to Mt Nittany

I haven’t posted for a few days because I’ve been busy moving and unpacking. I got the majority of my relatively small amount of stuff moved over on Saturday, though it took 45 minutes and six of us to figure out how best to arrange the furniture in my room, and it took several iterations of moving everything back and forth all over the room just to see how it’d look. But I finally settled on a configuration that I liked, I think it works pretty well. I decided to have CREM take away the bed that they’d supplied, since it was totally crappy, a fair bit worse than a normal dorm bed. Instead I was able to get the box spring and mattress that Robert had left behind, that’s working out heaps better. I finished getting the remainder of my stuff out of White Course on Sunday, and for the last few evenings I’ve been working hard to get everything of mine unpacked and put away — I’m finally almost done. Jon & I got all our non-living room stuff finally cleared out of there today, so all we really have left to do is put up some posters and we’ll pretty much be set (I may post a couple pictures of the place once we get that done). The apartment’s really taking shape, and I’m already liking this place way more than White Course. Even the 20-25 minute walk to Walker Building (three times longer than my walk to Walker from White Course) isn’t too bad. I hate the whole process of moving, particularly packing (especially how long it takes to pack and unpack the odds and ends at the end), but it was worth the hassle. I’m just looking forward to being completely done with all the unpacking and setting-up, so that I can have time to do other things.
I have taken a few breaks from the whole unpacking business the past few evenings though, namely to go see “Talladega Nights” (thumbs up, it was pretty funny) on Saturday, a little Bible study action on Sunday, a church softball game last night (we won 12-6, and I was only 1-for-2 thanks to a stellar defensive play by Faith Baptist’s shortstop), and then tonight it was time to draft my Big Ten Fantasy Football team down at Sports Cafe. I’m in a league with eight other people (my team is named “Gopher Broke”), and not that many of you care at all, but here’s how my draft shaped up:
1st round (07): Anthony Morelli, QB, Penn State
2nd round (12): Ohio State Defense/Special Teams
3rd round (25): Steve Breaston, WR, Michigan
4th round (30): Pierre Thomas, RB, Illinois
5th round (43): Tyler Melhaff, K, Wisconsin
6th round (48): Jerramy Scott, WR, Michigan State
7th round (61): Dustin Keller, TE, Purdue
8th round (66): Kevin Grady, RB, Michigan
9th round (79): Paul Hubbard, WR, Wisconsin
The last two picks were to fill out my two bench players. It absolutely pained me to pick Ohio $tate’s defense and Breaston from Michigan, since I absolutely despise both the Buckeyes and Wolverines, but I figure this puts me in a win-win situation; if they do well, my fantasy team gets points, but if they stink up the joint, OSU and the Maize & Blue likely won’t be winning the Big Ten.
A TV station in Houston is dumbing down their weathercasts even more, eliminating all mention of dewpoints from the current conditions or forecasts, and instead using only a “feels like” temp and relative humidity. Give me a break! Relative humidity is probably the most useless piece of info in the weather business, whereas the dewpoint is incredibly useful, if the TV weathermen would just invest a few seconds now and then to explain briefly what it means. Argh!