My sister drove up to meet mom and I, and then after lunch the two of them left for her house, where Mom will stay for another day or so before flying back to Virginia. It was a fun visit, but now that Mom's gone, and Matt's almost always out of the house, I'm walking around my big new place and starting to feel acutely lonely. Last year in the dorm I shared a tiny room with another guy, and even though we did our best to tune each other's existance out of our own, there was nevertheless someone there. But Matt's gone most of the time and I'm a distance from campus. There's no dorm lobby for me to lurk in and no dining hall for me to sit in and grab a snack and peoplewatch. It's just me. But I'm thinking that I'm just being hypersensitive, and that most of this will fade as soon as I'm busy with schoolwork and/or a job. In other words, I'm guessing I'm just bored more than lonely.
In other news, I kinda-sorta got my schedule worked out. At the moment:

Mon/Weds/Fri:
Intro to Anthropology
American Art History
Multicultural Literature

Tues/Thurs:
Intro to Painting
Intermediate Drawing

It should be an interesting semester...