This Is the Stuff That Belongs To the Boy Who Lives In the Room Of the Summer Internship Apartment That Garmin Rented

As you know, thanks to Val's faithful updating of every move except the bowel kind of her precious progeny (and that might be doable if there is a demand)...Genius left Saturday for his summer internship with Garmin. Surely you know Garmin. From my favorite commercials at Christmas time a few years back. Give a, give a, give a, give a Garmin! Thevictorians, however, are a thrifty lot, and both Genius and Hick have generic Walmart GPS thingies.

Genius sent me some pictures of his new living quarters. Seems the apple doesn't fall far from the stem where the apple has been hanging for six days.

I don't know if you will be able to see the details, because Genius is the fancy-schmancy sort who likes to use such accouterments as a panoramic lens, or wide-angle, or a stretchy kind of view dealybobber to take such a picture, most likely so his loving mother will have trouble posting it on her blog, though he does love to be the center of attention.

Genius is usually a neatnik. But his room at home looks pretty much the same, what with him leaving stuff that will just need repacking for the trip to his off-campus house when he returns briefly in August. So...let's see what this room says about my first-born son.

First of all, he has a bed, a closet, his own bathroom, and a view to the outside world. It looks like he made a purchase at Walmart, because he did not have a queen-size fitted sheet. You notice that he has made sure to prepare his bed, an area in which he likes to spend part of the night, and most of the afternoon. Looks like he is going to be a little crowded. There's his office chair that he got at Goodwill and hauled all the way to Kansas. His drafting-table desk that was destined to be a car-top guillotine until I intervened. The trademark red Solo cup, which I am sure Genius filled with ice and water, took one sip, then let melt for several hours untouched until he dumped it out and filled it with ice again. The black Stonehenge-looking structure on the dresser is probably a collection of his camera parts. It looks like Genius is pretty much unpacked and ready to get down to the brass tacks of Garmining, which begins on Tuesday with orientation.

Don't you worry that Genius only has a sleeping room. No siree, Bob! He has a kitchen and a dining area and a living room and a balcony and a fireplace. Not that he plans to light it, of course. It's summer. In Kansas.

I believe he took this one standing by the sink. He even has a kitchen island! This is like the Oliver Wendell Douglas penthouse before he left for Hooterville. Genius has been used to his one-room RA cell for the past year, not even a suite with a shared bathroom. Now he and his roommate each have their own bedroom/bathroom arrangement. You get to Genius's bedroom by going between the fireplace and balcony.

I wish Genius had worn a beanie, so he could stand out by the pool and toss it in the air while catchy music played, "You might just make it after all."