Roompicks.

Will be living in Avery 132 next year. The pick right above me took 240 Michigan. In the end, it's probably a good thing, as I would have been really torn between picking a single in Avery and picking the house, and this way the frosh can't blame me for not pulling them in. Still, it might have been neat to live off board and in a house and all. Ah well, plenty of opportunities for that in the rest of my life.

So now I should definitely push for my alley names. (No, not the Nazi ones.) Ryan said he was going to call one of the alleys "Bridge", and Arthur had repeatedly been suggesting that we draw from [Norse] mythology, and the combination set off a wild train of thought that goes something like this:

Instead of Bridge, Alley 7 is Bifrost. Then Alley 8 is Midgard, and Alley 6 is Asgard. Alley 1 is Niflheim, and Alley 4 is Muspelheim. Then Alley 5 would be Hel(heim).

Alley 2 and Alley 3 (where I'll be living) are still kind of open at the moment. Before I had Alley 2 as Vanaheim, since it's under Asgard, but you could also switch Alleys 6 and 8 and make Alley 2 either Jotunheim or Svartalfheim. Alley 3 could be Ginnungagap, because it's between Niflheim and Muspelheim, but that's long and hard to say and not as cool-sounding as the other Norse names. Right now I'm wondering what might be closest to a land of trolls in Norse mythology -- I thought Ymir gave birth to an eight-headed troll, but apparently there weren't enough of them to have their own world. Because trolls live under Bridge. :P