first pOst from StOnehill

Well, this has been extremely long overdue, since I got to Stonehill on Tuesday, but here it is - the first post in Villa 226, after a long 5 days of Orientation preparation, and the actual start of Fall Orientation. Granted this damn hurricane is changing our plans a little bit (I would have LOVED to go into Boston and walk around Fenway during the 1:35pm start time today, but...Irene won that round), but that doesn't mean we still can't have fun. And by we, I mean me, while I was playing blackjack for about an hour and a half last night at the first-year student Casino Night. I couldn't win any prizes, so I donated all my chips to one of my Orientation students, and he won a flip camera, so it was a fun night. That also made me REALLY want to be either 21, or on international waters, so I could legally gamble. Because blackjack is the easiest way to make money without expecting to lose a lot first. That is, if you know what you're doing - I also taught like 3 or 4 people how to play, and that was a lot of fun too! (If you don't know by now, blackjack is a wonderful appeal to math majors. And Kevin Spacey.)

What's ALSO a ton of fun (rhyme!) is that we get to play board/video/card games and watch movies with everyone in various residence halls today, and we only have like 1 or 2 things we have to do post-dinner. That is, if the hurricane doesn't change anything. Which it won't. Because the hurricane sucks. Game, set, match. Point Stonehill. Game over. End of game.