Getting Settled
Aug. 11th, 2006 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omlyIf you will remember I got little sleep wednesday night. I figure that for the last two days at that point I had only been gotting ~3 hours of sleep a night plus cat naps. Added to the fact that I hadn't eaten (other than ~16 oz of liquids on the planes) as of 4:30 pm (my body's 5:30) I wandered off after stopping by the office yesterday after I had straightened out my housing. I was told that I could find a grocery store just a ways down University Ave. Almost no one walks any great distance around here so that was somewhat misleading. After walking about a mile I stopped because my body decided I had to eat right then. I stopped at Firefly, which was pretty good. I ate the leftovers for lunch today too.
Then I walked a little bit more to Magic Mill Natural Foods. By this time I was exhausted as it was finally kicking in how much I had pushed myself. I was chatting with the clerk a bit when the woman in line behind me overheard that I had just flown in and was in town for a little bit. She offered me a ride towards campus, which I probably wouldn't have accepted because I would hate to impose on a stranger except that I wasn't sure if I was going to make it before dark in an area I didn't know. I probably looked like I was going to fall over. Her name was Deb, and she has lived in the area all of her life. Talk about the kindness of strangers! So I got home safely with my groceries, which I even managed to put away before I passed out on the bed.
I am hoping to do some more exploring this weekend. I have been at work since ~7 this morning and I wanted to get as much done as I could before people started to disappear for the weekend (which they have already started doing since ~2). I want to get to a larger grocery store for some staples, and I may try to get to Lakeside Fibers. I am really interested in spinning ingeo, but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
minds_eye_yarns hasn't had them in despite previously saying that it was a summer item. I need to get back into the office though this weekend to play with the new program some more with my limited time.
Then I walked a little bit more to Magic Mill Natural Foods. By this time I was exhausted as it was finally kicking in how much I had pushed myself. I was chatting with the clerk a bit when the woman in line behind me overheard that I had just flown in and was in town for a little bit. She offered me a ride towards campus, which I probably wouldn't have accepted because I would hate to impose on a stranger except that I wasn't sure if I was going to make it before dark in an area I didn't know. I probably looked like I was going to fall over. Her name was Deb, and she has lived in the area all of her life. Talk about the kindness of strangers! So I got home safely with my groceries, which I even managed to put away before I passed out on the bed.
I am hoping to do some more exploring this weekend. I have been at work since ~7 this morning and I wanted to get as much done as I could before people started to disappear for the weekend (which they have already started doing since ~2). I want to get to a larger grocery store for some staples, and I may try to get to Lakeside Fibers. I am really interested in spinning ingeo, but
minds_eye_yarns hasn't had them in despite previously saying that it was a summer item. I need to get back into the office though this weekend to play with the new program some more with my limited time.
