Wheee! All moved in.

[silveradept]

I got moved in yesterday. They're going to replace/superclean the carpet in the bedroom on Monday, because things were apparently pretty trashed on the carpet, and the previous tenants were smokers. Luckily, all the material that I have and have bought so far fits in the living room. I've got space now, which is a rather weird feeling. I need a paycheck or two before I start considering some furniture options, though. And I moved in with sufficient time to provide crash space for torakiyoshi, who had a meeting on this side of the state this morning. Tonight, after work, I've got all sorts of things to go get, like foods and shower curtains and such, and some things to think about getting - and I'll poke the cable company today and see if they can't get someone out to set up my services (or if I can just read some numbers to them over the telephone) on my time. Wheee, I'm moved in! I'm moved in! Finally, I'm moved in! Moved in, employed, and ready to begin the post-school part of my life. Hoorah.

Of course, I'm still going to have to get used to the idea that if my padded rugby squad plays at noon in the college town, that mens I have to catch the broadcast at 9 A.M. In some ways, it's nice being able to watch late-night sport early, and in others, it becomes a bit of a problem, because everything that was late-night sport then gives way into late-night programming. Well, perhaps with other entertainment methods, that won't be such a problem. Bookshelves and end-tables set up and purposed, mattress laid down, stuff shunted in one direction or another. It's not quite sleeping in my own bedroom, but hey, it's close, and it works.

Yes, now you can start filling my in-box with requests on my new address.

Or you can do something else with your life and peruse laying the blame for the popularity of dancing poles and the behavior that happens on them at feminism's feet, the worry about men not reading fiction (So? They're just picking up words from other sources than paragraphs-of-words books, that's all. You tell me that an RPG player doesn't do a lot of reading over the course of the game.

And, for spice, just how much the Jena incident shows, to one person, that racism is still alive, well, and being passed on to a new generation.

Comments

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you watched his press conference after... Lloyd even seemed to think that his backside was about to be sent through a window. (Unless you have another interpretation of "I will not be stopped... even if I lose my job")

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but I don't see where they should be considering firing Lloyd. So they screwed up? who cares. Take a look at Penn State - we've had several years in a ROW where we barely won any games, and while speculation over JoePa retiring was always said, no one actually really pushed for it, and even Joe himself said he wasn't going to retire over something like loosing a season.

To me, that's a sign of bad morale. U-M has too many fair weather fans who refuse to continue to support a "losing" team, and that's what they should be doing.

[silveradept]

It's partially the fair-weather fans, yes, but it's also that for a long time now, Michigan's play-calling has been of a very conservative style, and that Lloyd seems content to play a game that willgo either way depending on who has the ball last. Which, when you've obviously got the opposition on the ropes, is a bad thing. And in these sorts of situations, makes him look even worse for not even apparently trying to get back into the game.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

Do you think that Lloyd should be fired mid-season over this, though?

[silveradept]

When we get to the middle of the season, if things still haven't improved, then we can talk about it.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

When's mid season? October, yeah?

I still stand firm that anything is possible once conference play starts.

[uncle-pervy.livejournal.com]

Coach Carr has a pretty good record but he's giving off the impression that he's asleep at the wheel. He needs to get his shit together and work on his Defense so that they're not giving up 30+ points to other teams, no matter who good they are in their division or conference. Will he be let go before the end of the year? Doubt it. However, there will be a mob calling for his head by Christmas if they don't have at least a winning season (meaning better than .500 average.) As for the fans situation - I wouldn't call them fair-weather. Fair weather would describe the fanbase running away from the team in droves and no longer rooting for U of M football. I see quite the opposite. They love it so much they want to get things fixed now before they become even more of a mess farther down the road. They have expectations. High ones since Michigan is the winning-est team in the history of the NCAA (around 75% win rate) and they're not used to having 4 losses in a row. Hell, the last time they had four lost games in a row was back in the 60's.

[silveradept]

I'm moer inclined to call them fair-weather because of the expectations they have. A little adversity and they're clamoring for the coach's head and wondering why they're not winning everything all the time. They're not deserting, sure, but they're certainly not being very supportive.