Campus Crawl
August 6, 2007
Today was my monthly migraine study appointment, where I was promptly disappointed to find I didn’t score the mega-monthly supply of migraine meds; but the usual monthly pittance that I’ve been existing (read: hoarding) on for months now. So that sucked.
After we left the doctor’s office, we went to Michael’s Crafts, to pick up a frame for the SIGNED poster of The Police I got when I joined the fan club. I’ll be setting that baby up tonight. Photo to follow. (click here to see it up on my wall.) We also stopped at Shoe Carnival, where we picked up a pair of sandals for Spiff, who had run his other ones into the ground. He promptly wore them out of the store, because it is 95 degrees out here today, but it feels like it is 105 degrees. It’s HOT, damn hot!
Our next stop was UCF, to pick up some things for Sarah. Um, I guess now would be a good time to tell you I have never been out to the campus, much less on it. I’ve been close, but never had the pleasure of getting lost on campus.
Until today. It didn’t take long. Someone should tell them that better signage would be insanely helpful. And no, the way to the bookstore is no longer that way, so please TAKE THAT SIGN DOWN!!!!
Okay, so I’m a little annoyed. Get your act together, UCF!!
We parked in a shiny, brand new parking garage (one of two) and walked to the student union building. Spiff was full of questions. I discussed with him that soon enough he would be going to a school very much like this one; if not this exact one. I asked how he felt about that, and he expressed some trepidation. I reminded him that one of the good things about going to a college like UCF was that he could still live at home and also go to school. He worried that the school was too big for him to get to classes on time every day. I told him that college was a bit different than middle and high school, and he seemed to relax.
He began to revel in the moment, and for a brief time he enjoyed himself. We picked out some cool things for Sarah, and he declined my offer of a UCF T-shirt when I asked him if he’d like one. I guess he felt it was too soon to start having loyalties…
especially since UCF doesn’t have a video game development degree…yet. But Full Sail does, and we passed their campus not long after we left UCF. Spiff was thrilled.
After we left UCF, we headed toward Winter Park, and Color Me Mine, a pottery place we had been to for a friend’s birthday. On the way there, we passed Rollins College, a smaller, but by no means less important college (I wanted to go there when I was growing up here in Orlando); and a place called Mellow Mushroom, and we were so intrigued by the name and mushroom guy on the sign, we doubled back and stopped to have lunch. I’m so glad we did. The pizza is PHENOMENAL! (almost better than the Giordano’s, B!) We had a really good time. Is there one near you? If there is, you should go.
Another reason why it is a good thing we stopped there for lunch is that the Color Me Mine store that USED to be in Winter Park is no longer there. We were sad, but we were also kind of secretly relieved, because we were kind of tired.
So we went home, where there is air conditioning and Backyardigans and You Tube. Oh, and a sofa.
Ahhhhhhhhhh.
August 7th, 2007 at 5:30 am
Is Winter Park still a haven of beautiful Arabian horse farms?
*siiiiiigh*
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August 7th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Sorry you got lost. I can’t wait for my stuff!!!
Thanks.
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