Roommate

I just called my roommate and talked to her for about 45 minutes.

She's from what she calls the triangle area of North Carolina - a triangle of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. We both like music and she plays the cello. (I can think of at least one person who will find that awesome.) She knows a couple of current bands in Portland and loves the music scene in Olympia. She almost wanted to go to Evergreen for Olympia, and I had a laugh at that and told her a bit about Evergreen and my friend who goes there. She wants to study language and history, and she told me an idea she had about indexing language and writing poetry by looking in the index for the kind of word you want. It sounded like something I'd do, and then my mom would tell me I was nuts. I told her about cabbage pH indicator, and she inspired me to the idea of making purple paper which could then be painted with "invisible ink" solutions of acid and base. I gave her advice about clothes to bring, and we decided that whoever moves in first will just set down her stuff and wait for the other to split up the room. Of course we are still at the stage of trying to be awesome for first impressions' sake, but I think we'll get along.