greetings from hippy u

hey all. i am now at grinnell. yeehaw!

so, i've only spent one night here, and things are kind of weird. because it still feels like a college visit and it hasn't sunk in yet that i'm staying for a long time. grinnell is pretty... unique. for one thing, there's self-governance. so say i'm getting really krunk (just for argument's sake, because i would never actually get "krunk," i'll stick to drunk, thank you). i won't get in trouble unless a) the police catch me with alcohol outside, b) i sell alcohol to minors and get caught, or c) i puke all over the bathroom (in which case i a) clean it up, b) fess up and get a fine, or c) don't confess and my whole floor shares the fine (now, a is the ideal choice, obviously)).

my roommate's cool but there are some odd people on my floor. like the girls who want to start a badminton club... and there's this cool guy from south africa down the hall, and i'm not sure if he's gay or if it's just, you know, being from a completely different continent. van and i are in the same orientation group (because we're the group that couldn't find our groups), and tonight (or tomorrow), we have a talk on "sex signals." more on this as it develops. the sex talk we've already had--and this is a great example of how grinnell is special--had to do with sexile (locking out your roommate while you go at it) and floorcest ("hooking up" with someone on your floor).

that's all for now!