A Tale of the Housing Lottery

Third time's a charm, I suppose. Next year I will be living in wonderful 506. Sure, I lose most of my view of the lake when there are leaves on the trees, but it's the fifth floor again, and in general I'm far more comfortable with people down there than I ever was with people up here on the tenth. So wow... this marks the first and last year that the housing lottery didn't screw me over! It's quite a wonderful feeling. Most of the time pre-lottery was spent throwing things, and deciding which fictional character we'd room with. We decided on Sauron, in the end, because he'd keep the first years away. He's also written as our third roomie on the giant map of the floor now, with an angry face next to him. We decided too late that it should've just been one angry eye. And if we end up as ringwraiths by the end of the year, we'll be a decidedly cooler form along the lines of Ringu Ninjas. (Which will be thoroughly creepy. I don't think I'd blame any of you for running away.) Me? I'm just gonna be happy for a bit about having a roomie who is not opposed to having a fictional character as a roomie (always a requirement, especially after threatening more than once to replace jabberwockeyes with Hermione), who wants to paint murals on the walls, and can beat me at DDR. Woo!

I was going to do more work on film today, but I think since I wore myself out watching the segment we have to write about for our paper for an hour today with solitaryjane, I'm just going to have to find something to work on. Hemingway isn't as terrible as everyone made him out to be, but I think that's mostly because I'm reading him right after Gertrude Stein (whom I've decided I pretty much can't stand). I kind of don't want to read any more tonight, though. I think I'll go work on my King Lear assignment so I can just spend tomorrow worrying about what on earth I can write for my fiction assignment. Anyone know of any interesting news stories or bits of history that'd make a good short story? (This is our actual assignment, but so far all I've come across in my bits of newspaper skimming is either boringly political or... well, boring in general. Sigh. Preferably something I can make up a plot around. Maybe I should look for mysterious disappearances or something, but there's something sort of... not-something-I-want-to-do about writing stories around actual things that've happened to individual people. Hrm.)