The Shadow People

Okay, so today I moved in to college. Car full of crap, embarrassing parent goodbyes, awkward roommate introductions and all :]

So far so good really. It wasn't as bad as I feared it would be. The roommates aren't too bad and the room is bigger than I expected. So overall pretty good.

BUT the one crazy thing is that in our building [and I would guess all the buildings] there are random paintings on the walls. Hey! Random paintings don't sound too bad! I hear you utter. No. They're not all bad... just- creepy. Well they're not all creepy either... just- different. We've got paintings for all levels of creepiness. First there are the "shadow girls." Which are, as you would imagine, black shadow silhouettes of girls in random poses. Holding lights. Catching [totally non-shadow, full color] butterflies. Doing handstands.... I told you CREEPY. Then there is the, slightly less creepy angel lady on the first floor. She's just, you know, an angel lady surrounded by, angelness, blue angelness to be exact. The only other full color "person" is the Statue of Liberty up on the third floor, who really isn't too terribly creepy but does get some random points. Then there are the animals, we already mentioned the butterflies, but in addition to the butterflies there's a frog, a duck some ladybugs and the AWESOME second floor ostrich peaking it's little ostrich head/body around a full length mirror. Then The only really non creepy artwork title goes to the sunflowers found on each floor. To be honest, the shadow people really creep me out. But we named the one by our dorm Norma... or Noreen... I'm not exactly sure, but giving her such a silly name makes her seem much less likely to sneak into our room and steal our souls in the dark of night.

The only other oddity I've found so far is that our bedroom light likes to wait a good 2-3 minutes before turning on, which is uber fun. :]

Well I'm off to attempt to socialize? or maybe just sneak some of my chocolate stash. Hope you all are having fun, non shadow people haunted lives!

<3

Days until classes Start: 4