School = hills

which means I have to exercise whether I want to or not just to get to class. We've all heard the stories about "uphill both ways in the snow", right? That is reality in Pullman. I used to question the validity of how often it could happen that a trip would have uphill in it both ways. Then I moved here. There are no neighborhoods, just the designation of what hill something's on. College Hill, Pioneer Hill, Sunnyside Hill, Military Hill... And there's only 20,000 people including the students! There should not be this many significant hills. Then the university (at least the section of it I have to be on every day) is laid out on smaller hills on college hill. This doesn't just lead to lots of going up a hill to get somewhere and up the other hill to get back to where you started (even between 2 buildings. we're not talking across campus!) it also means there are a LOT of buildings where you walk in one side on the second floor, go down the stairs, and back out the other side on the first floor. In short, I go up hill to my first class, up a flight of stairs to leave it, up another flight of outdoor stairs to go up a hill to my second class, up 4 flights of stairs to the room, and then down a bunch of hills and up more stairs to get to the car. And I, in all my 300 or so pounds of fatness, have to execute these moves in under 10 minutes.

I hate this campus. They make me pay for a gym membership that I SHOULD go use but I don't need to because they built the entire campus on a giant stair climbing machine!

I miss flat land.