21st August
I got moved. I'm not in the underground dorms anymore. I got moved to a little flat in Residential Dome where the seniors usually get to live. They say if I'm gonna be a Luny I ought to learn to live like one.
Since I have a flat, they let me adopt a cat! Well, that flat came with a cat and he is mine now. He is a huge black cat and he's very sweet. His name is Mutch today, I may change it.
My leg is healed up, mostly, I don't know what they did but that was pretty quick. They said not to try to run for a while.
Which reminds me, when I told my friends on Earth that I was coming to the Moon they all told me, "You better learn to hop like a kangaroo." Because that's what the old astronauts in bulky spacesuits did, I think. Lunies don't walk like that. They sorta trot on their toes and they use their toes to push them forward, and they can go pretty fast!
And I saw that Alien Cat running on all fours and that thing can MOVE!
Which reminds me, before I came up they told me never, ever, EVER to run away from the Alien Cat. The Alien Cat is a predator and you never run from a predator because that's what prey do.
I'm not going to be running anywhere for a while. It's hard enough just getting used to walking.
It's funny, the cats--there are LOTS of cats here--act just like normal cats. Even the leopard which is just a big cat. The leopard's name is "Baby" which is supposed to be a reference to a leopard in a movie. Prof. Kuse says quadrupeds aren't effected by the low gravity like bipeds are because they don't have nearly as big an "up" component to their steps as bipeds. There are a lot of birds here too and I don't think they're bothered by the gravity at all.
So far I haven't learnt much in my microbiology and astrobiology classes that I didn't already know but they're prerequisites and I have to take them.
In the class on lunar living today the prof pointed out that just because things fall slowly in 1/6th gee doesn't mean we got to grab them slowly. He told us to watch freshmen who drop things pick them up, they pick them up in slow motion and don't realize they're doing it. We all thought this was ridiculous. But now I'm watching and that's exactly what people do, and now that we all know we all do it we feel like idiots.
Whenever anybody with long hair shakes their head around here, it looks like a shampoo commercial.
The trouble I'm having is that I have to remember when I pick things up that they don't weigh a lot here and if I grab them like I did on Earth they go flying. Mutch hates that.
One of the things I really love about Wargentin is that the internet is NOT censored! I can look up anything I want, from any country and any city in the whole Solar System! There is SO MUCH! There's everything from everywhere and and the Lunar Living course they say they'll teach us how to figure out what's reliable and what's not because there's so much of everything on there and it's not even password protected, and I don't need permission to use it, this is great!
I have been in Residential Dome for a few days now and I can see the Earth in the sky. It has phases, but it stays in the same spot all the time and it's upside down. You do see the whole thing, though, it's not tidally locked to the moon which would be silly.
Now I have to tell you about something else I got myself into. Well, my Public Writing class got me into. I told you I had to hand write letters and stuff. Prof. Kuse, who teaches the class, gave me a list of people to write to, who needed pen-pals and would like to get letters. Well okay, but!
One of them is a Lady Johnstone-Flood who is (her bio SAYS) travelling through Siberia looking for a lost queen's treasure. IN 1888!!
Another one is making a dangerous trip through Scotland in 1700 or so and worried about being kidnapped.
Another one is a big, black bipedal cat who lives in the future I think.
And another one again is a human who lives in the future and wrote back, and wants to know if I know why information about Wargentin, in his time, whenever that is, is "Classified."
This is supposed to be the "Interdimensional Post-Office."
Oh well, I guess I can play this game if it makes Prof. Kuse happy. It'll be an easy A.
That's all for now.
To Be Continued.