5,000 University of Virginia students and their families will storm Charlottesville on Saturday, the official move-in day for the University. If you haven’t experienced move-in day, you are a lucky clam.
Barracks Road turns into a cesspool of horrible driving, plastic-shelf buying, confused parents, eager children and their vehicles. Oh, and good luck getting through UVa grounds. I highly recommend you lay low or get out of town during the day.
On a high note, Charlottesville’s nightlife will be reinvigorated with new faces. Booya! If you have any funny move in day stories, please share!
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The overlords of the village of the damned return. Praise be Allah.
Also avoid Target, Wal-Mart, 29, and any grocery store. I recommend my foolproof method for avoiding the move-in day madness.
Step 1: Get completely obliterated tonight.
Step 2: Sleep until 3 tomorrow afternoon.
Step 3: Nurse whatever hangover is remaining.
Step 4: Eat lunch/dinner on the mall.
By the time you finish those, it’ll be after 6 and most if not all of the craziness will be over.
Will there be a weekend preview this week, or are we mourning someone.
fyi:
I heard on the radio that DUI check points are going on all weekend on back roads and such. Just a heads up, be safe….
@3
around 2am, i had the impression from Backup Planet that we were mouring you, versifying whacky funster.
at 1:30 or so, i got a call from the C&O complaining colorfully of a rowdy and p-p-p-plastered crowd together making a scene downstairs; i assumed it was the lurkers? OR was it just One-L or the shiny-new sheep to the MBA slaughter at An University OF Virginia?
@ 5 Yeah, got pretty close to the edge last night. Im going through some complicated shit. I really shouldn’t post from the black hole, but I really dont have any one to talk to so there is some leakage onto the tubes. My apologies.
That’s a great picture. Thanks for the warning…I’ll stick to my side of town.
@6
not the place for such an offer, but i couldn’t find a CONTACT link on your music blog. if there’s anything you need or that can be done to help given my limited resources and skewed though sympathic worldview, drop me a line or let me know how to drop you one.
back to snark now.
[…] One final note: As cVillain notes, you will want to avoid going anywhere near the UVA campus this weekend and you might want to avoid Emmett St/29 North as if it had the plague. The students are coming! The students are coming! […]
@2 I LOVE the way you think
@3 Very funny, hopefully not mourning you
/oh look, bp comments in daylight?
Move in day is actually not that bad here. Not as many kids live on campus and the dorm complexes are spread out over a very wide area, so there isn’t a total clusterfuck on grounds and/or a particular part of the city.
IMHO Barracks is a full on clusterfuck.
Was at Barracks around two o’clock. Yes. Clusterfuck.
Belmont is peaceful tho, as usual.
I’ve pinpointed it that the most annoying/aggravating of the influx are the newbies. Freshman. Firstyearbullshits. The parents are all aflutter about their precious little snowflakes needing every single comfort of home lest they break into little tiny pieces, and the little brats themselves are mostly snots that think they’re the most important people in the world and they should have everything texted to them on a silver platter.
Most of the upperclassmen have had life kick them around at least a tiny bit, so they’re more down to earth, and their parents are more likely to say “here’s a wad of cash, now go back to school and stop waving your education in my face, you little douchebag.”
Either way, I have no patience for it, and will be staying as far away from that place and the cluster of school related shopping as possible.
Why no, I’m not bitter, why do you ask?
@ 14 try teaching them. worse than herding kindergarteners, except they’ve actually got a bit of a vocabulary (and aren’t afraid to pull the “my tuition pays your salary so i deserve an A” bullshit). big fun!
i was told in a meeting today to treat them like 10-year-olds in the classroom. funny thing is, i did that for most of last year, and it worked like a charm. and we wonder why they graduate college and can’t function in the society at large…
/guilty as charged!
oh yeah - at 10am it was only me and the old ladies of cville mucking up the ol’ HT at barracks. i reckon it’s calmed down a bit now, so it’s probably a good time to go, if you can find someone to drive you.
/damn pan-galactic gargle blaster! all i wanna do is sleep…
I just emerged from the heart of darkness: grounds! did you know kids still ride those razor scooters? 10-year-olds indeed.
you know who was awesome? the guy who could do tricks on his razor scooter. him, and the guy with the stick-toss juggling game. hippies.
gosh, pervertly, um, perversely, it sounds as if some of you went up there for the purpose of entertainment… or will it spin as “news reporting”?
if blogging is citizen news reporting, then I think we just spun that shit out.
my favorite campus character was not the talented hippie, but the 10th year philosophy major who wore a bathrobe everyday. but that’s just like, my opinion, man.
@17 perhaps you were stocking up on 5′ by 8′ posters of Robert Smith, or a few ficus trees? Maybe some of those glow-in-the-dark star stickers for your ceiling?
@220 Terry cloth robes are the best cocoon. We should be allowed to wear them to work.
welcome, Emord, have a snack and byob
um, this is comment #24, where does @220 come from?
i accidently backed over lifesize bama cutout during movin- anyone have number for joe b’s lazarus taxon hotline?
@24 It’s for the future silly! (or perhaps 20 )