It's raining right now as I look out the window from my tenth story dorm room at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.  I can see most of campus from all the way up here, the big field separating the dorm side of campus from the buildings in which classes are held.  All the buildings here are covered with grey stones (the "hokie stone") after our team name.  It's pretty, just rather dreary because it's all so uniform.

    Elvis Costello is playing from a cd via Winamp, which nicely displays the artist and song title from every cd, without the user actually having to type anything in, which is nice, because I didn't bring any cd cases with me to college, just the cds themselves in a wallet.   It's really gotten windy now...the moon shaped wind chimes I got in Portugal last summer are making a lot of noise.

     When I got here, we put up a loft bed, which is pretty much a tall bunk bed without the bottom bunk.  I put my computer desk under it, and the bed is right next to the window, so I can gaze out at the school as I'm working on the computer whenever my mind starts to wander (which is quite often).  As soon as I got everything set up, I put up many glow in the dark stars and planets under the loft, now whenever I turn out the lights, it's a mini-galaxy.  Though the school is in the mountains, away from most of civilization, so it's not like I can't go out at night and see them.  Well, I can't go out tonight, as it's raining at the moment.
 
    It really is quite pretty here.  Apparently the weather is supposed to be strange, it can be 70 degrees one morning, and be snowing by the afternoon.  I don't mind.  Anything to get away from the Washington, D.C. humidity.  And I like it when it rains.  It makes the world peaceful.  The trees are all green and full right now, soon they'll be in fall colors (which are the colors of the school, maroon and orange, which are pretty ugly together when you come to think of it.  I probably shouldn't say that, or one of the football players will beat me up or something).
 
     Speaking of football, there was a game yesterday.  I didn't go, because I don't really like football, and I don't even have the pass one needs to get the tickets in the first place.  Apparently we won, 40-0.  That's quite a change from high school, where it would most likely be the other way around.
 
     The wind is really blowing now.  The window's closed, but it's still coming in.  Last week, it started pouring, and rain started coming in the closed window, and leaking out of the cabinet that's over the sink.  The building's kind of old.
 

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