not necessarily fun facts

• in case you don't get the reference, 'Rennessee' comes from Tennessee Williams
• my real name is Renata
• I go by Ren
• yes, my last name is Williams
• I moved to Maine when I was 6
• I bothers me that I can't say that I'm a born and raised Mainer
• I like privacy 
• a couple nights ago I had a dream that an eel-sized humpback whale coiled itself around my arm then pooped out a full, perfectly intact pizza on me 
• I would really like to have that dream assessed
• I get genuinely angry when my fellow students show up late to class with fancy coffee in their hands
• I have never in my life spit out gum anywhere but a trash can
• I have a (very) outstanding library fine, but have yet to be contacted about it, so in the meantime I won't check out books because I want the library to think that I died
• anytime a librarian looks at me, I panic a little
• I want a pet duck but I'm too afraid of the bird flu

college observations

Student center:

• guy who looks like that werewolf guy from Twilight  is talking very loudly about base-jumping
• guy in a green sweater talking very loudly about hydronization
• hundreds of pamphlets on the table next to me about joining the Navy
• 0 pamphlets about grad school 
• another green sweater guy is trying to read all the stickers on my laptop without looking like he's staring at me
• total number of guys in green sweaters: 6 
• total numbers of people in here: 14
• sign for bible study club, featuring a rainbow Jesus Fish
• are they actually welcoming people who identify as LGBTQ, or did they just want bright colors on their sign? I'd like to find out. 

Library:

• the shelves are quite empty (not because people are checking them out, because this library needs more money)
• I'm being a rebel and drinking my water
• more people need to iron their shirts
• it's faster to take the stairs than the elevator and it seems people haven't figured that out
• the outlets are all upside down and it bothers me
• why put noisy coin machines in a library? There must be a better (and more quiet) way to get people to pay for printing
• every time I walk by encyclopedias, I think "encyclopaedia" (thank you, Ted Mosby)

Philosophy lecture hall:

• number of people who walked in 10+ minutes late with Starbucks in hand: 4
• video watched: CNN's "Weed"
• after we watched it, about 80% of the class said they favor medicinal marijuana
• about 40% said they favor recreational marijuana
• 1 person said they want all drugs to be legal
• 3 girls who opposed recreational and expressed their reasoning were blonde, wearing head-to-toe Hollister, and all walked in late with Starbucks in hand
• they were the only ones who explained their opinion 
• eventually, the whole class broke out in (loud) "this one time when I smoked" stories 
• professor didn't take attendance 
• I could have stayed in bed