Moving Into the Commons

I moved into Georgia State University's Commons yesterday. It was crowded and confusing. I expected it to be that way.

When I finally arrived in my room with my things, one of my roommates was inside. Two mutual friends are rooming with me and a fourth roommate I had not met was joining us. He was the one inside the room, along with four of his family members. They seemed nice. I joked around with them the entire time they were there. His grandmother thinks I am bordering insanity, I believe. We talked for a bit. But he went home. He will return tomorrow evening.

My parents made my bed and took my things out. In essence, they scattered them all over the floor. After they left, I set things up to my liking. It took quite a while to work out the power cables and ethernet. I still need two more phone cables to make my room complete. Also, I'm not certain how one inserts the ink cartridges...

Last night, my roommate who is staying with me this weekend (the other two remained at home) decided that we should go out for dinner. So we went. We walked around quite a bit and eventually decided to go to McDonalds. We ran into three interesting panhandlers.

First man:

Approached my roommate and I while I was retrieving something from my car. Claimed to be HIV positive and said he did not have long to live and that he had nothing to eat. He told us he needed money and he had "no addictions", and just needed food. We watched him walk into the gas station with the two dollars my roommate gave him. He bought chips. At least that's what he said he was going to buy.

Second man:

Gave us directions to several food places, including McDonalds. He gave us tons of information. As far as I could tell, he was pretty normal. He made me feel guilty when he told me he wanted two dollars. He didn't even have to say "I just helped you out, and you won't even give me a little change ?" for me to feel bad. I feel stupid for doing it, but I gave him two dollars.

Woman-man..thing:

While in McDonalds, I discussed with my roommate that this would not be happening any more. No more sharing money. Just after that, a woman came into McDonalds and came directly at my roommate first. She was asking for fifty-five cents. She claimed she needed to ride the bus. She could barely stand up, was dragging herself along the ground, and kept moaning and grumbling, "Can someone pleeeassee help me get on the busss.. I'm fif' four years ol', and I need'a get on the buss..." I told my roommate not to look at her. Eventually she was completely upon us, however. We did not have fifty-five cents to give her. My roommate said, "Sorry" and she smiled, showing us that about one in three teeth were missing from her mouth. She said, "Don't say sorry, boy.. I'm just asking you for help. God bless you for thinking of me. I'll juss'.. Ask someone else..." She wandered off to ask other people.

I came back to the room around 2200 and tested the ethernet cable on my PC. It worked fine and I am able to connect to Steam to play online games. The internet speed here is incredible. Currently 53.07 Mb/s. Before, I had about a fifth of that. Maybe even slower. I will thoroughly enjoy this. (Detailed report)

I slept early. That's a new [and weird] habit I have been trying to implement into my daily life.