Halfway Through College

I finished my finals on Thursday and returned home to Mill Valley today. I’m now a junior and I feel old. Two years of UCLA have flown by and they have been great, but surprisingly short. I already have my apartment for the next year and my stuff is moved in but not set up. There isn’t a bed or a desk yet but that’s easy to fix. The official move in date is August 1st, since summer school session C starts up August 4th.

I’m taking Life Science 3 over session C, which lasts six weeks. I’ve heard that summer courses are a lot easier over the summer since they are so quick so I’ll try to take advantage of that and get an A in LS3.

The phone isn’t set up yet in the apartment and I have to call Verizon tomorrow to prove that I’m actually Mike Steinbaugh. They won’t activate the account until I show them my driver’s license or something of the sort. Those bastards gave me the run around last week telling me that I had to go to a Verizon Phone Center to get the account activtated and they gave me the address of a store in Santa Monica Mall on 3rd street. The only problem is that no such phone center exists in the mall. Apparently it’s somewhere else in Santa Monica.

For the time being, I’m going to relax and read a few books. I still haven’t conquered The Return of the King and my mom let me borrow Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, which is supposed to be a well-written book. Some of the critics called it self-indulgent but I’ll be the judge of that.

Also, on a totally unrelated side note, Natalie Portman graduated from Harvard this past week and is returning to Hollywood. Here’s hoping that Westwood is one of her hang-out spots…