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it's afternoon, which means the sunlight is finally starting to filter down through the ferns to my little west-facing window, almost convincingly filling the room with a day-like glow. i know, though, that in this room, artificial light is almost never going to be dispensible; the trick is going to be making the lighting in this room as natural as possible.

went out exploring a little earlier today; dropped by the graduate program office and got myself oriented a bit. people in the department are all very friendly, if busy. walked around campus a bit with the graduate coordinator; saw the cafeteria where they filmed the egg-splosion scene from animal house; repressed the urge to recreate it then and there. not a good way to impress new business acquaintances...

went grocery shopping at the market of choice, market of choice. no really, that's what it's called. aptly named, too, for the beer selection there is more than adequate; well, not quite, since they didn't have any elysian beer except for the stout. i'm consoling myself with a ninkasi IPA, considerably more local and arguably as good as the immortal.

leaving the grocery store and trying to find my way back to the bike path, i must have committed a faux pas by crossing at a pedestrian crosswalk. a lady turned left in front of me while making little "tsk tsk" motions and trying to say something. she seemed amused, like i was committing a greivous yet humorous mistake; i was just trying to get across the fracking street to get home! geez. hopefully i will figure out the obscure customs of this land before being thrown out as a fraud.

anyway, there you have it: the mundane details of my day thus far. think i'll spend some more time working on making my room liveable, and perhaps go out for a ride later on.