so far away, doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore

So today was my first day in Guelph all alone. The weekend was good because Seema helped get me organized (as only Seema can) and spent time with me exploring Guelph. The weekend was incredible and a perfect way to start my Guelph journey. She was my buddy and stuck by my side, so I could temorarily prolong my fate of being The Girl Who Knows No One. I have a very distinct and somewhat Full House-ish mental picture of myself carrying a tray full of food and looking around the cafeteria hopefully. And yet to no avail. Everyone is already sitting at lunch tables with their friends. They think that I dress weird and eat strange food and I can feel all of this as I walk awkwardly through the lunchroom, trying to find a corner that I can hide in before getting through the rest of my day. Where I will also have no friends, by the way. And we will do things in partners and I will not have a partner because I will be the weird girl who eats quinoa int the corner of the lunchroom.

Is there even a lunchroom in Guelph? Maybe I can just take a book wherever I go (which I suppose I already do...) and books will be my new best friends. Books and guinea pigs. Not necessarily in that order. I'm not actually alone until I've been rejected by both books and guinea pigs.