first day

I started Uni today.

Got up. Had an hour to spare. Somehow managed to be rushing about in the last minute anyway. Went to station, heart thudding, stomach heaving a little for reasons I couldn't quite pinpoint - I WAS late for the train, I suppose.
Missed train due to ammended timetable. Was waiting for another when I realised there wasn't another coming. Had to run down to road to catch connecting bus. Realised the place bus was connecting me to was infact ten minutes drive away.
Drove to next station. Mayhem due to trackwork and work-goers. JUST got a park. Had to run for train. Sat heavily into seat, puffing.
Drew in my small notebook all the way to Hamilton. Got off, got on new train. Walked to Uni. Made first lecture with a minute to spare. Shuffled my way through the seats to reach Bri and Ta.
Compared timetables with Bri while lecturer set up. I'd done mine wrong - had another lecture after this one, and not one tomorrow. Dang. But good, 'cos it didn't mean I'd miss work.
Lecturer 15 minutes in announces he is finished. We have 45 minutes to spare. Takes us on a walk to our Tutorial room.
I LOVE THE DESIGN BUILDING.
Have tutes on every floor, including the loft. Loving the desks.
Met with Gee, walked with her. Has a completely different Tute timetable to me. Dang again.
Have Tutes with Bri and Ee.
An hour to spare. Walk around Campus. Give up (bag heavy) and relocate outside the nursing Theatre lecture hall, where my next lecture is. Draw.
Draw.
Gee comes in, sits in ampitheatre with me.
Rest of class surge through door. Meet up with Ee, Bri and Tara.
Mutter excitedly to Ee and Gee about this elective. We have to complete 65 full A3 size self-portraits in the next 13 weeks.
Yyyuup.
Getting a degree for drawing random things. Am excited.
(Starting to feel a little pressure now. Must get into academic swing.)
Walk to train station. Get on, off, on train. Off again.
Visit Salvo's at Morrisset. It is so different from the ram-shackle, cozy treasure-trove it was when Me, Ess, Inoue, Jay, Tea, Bea, Aim and others visited it a year or so ago for Tea's kayaking get-to-gether. Makes me a little sad.
Found a nice stripy shirt/jacket/cut-off-just-below-chest thingamabob. $4
Came home.
Ate lunch at 2. Unwrapped a darling little brown package with red string I found in my mail from Ess.
Love Ess.
A stone, two small booklets, and a lovely small old Italiano-Inglese dictionary. Green, palm-sized, old perfection.

Big day. Now I have work to do.
Wishing Ess, Tea and Jay were here with me. But am really glad they have found such great places to be anyway.