Jimmy: Hey Richard. Pretty small room.

Richard (Writing, sarcastically): I think we're going to be real good friends. I
haven't met my roommate yet. His name is Chris. It says here that he's a
Computer Science major, too. We should be in some of the same classes so we'll
get to study together. I'm really looking forward to meeting him.

(Enter Chris, staring at a piece of paper, anxiously.)

Chris: Is this room 963?

Richard: Yes.

Chris: Then you must be Richard. My name is Chris Tuney. I'm your roommate.

(Richard looks Chris over. About Richard's size, long, black hair, and, most
evidently, a girl.)

Richard: Uh --

(Richard mulls this over while Chris unloads her stuff on her bed. He reexamines
the paragraph bio on Chris. Finally:)

Richard: You're Chris Tuney? (Noticing her sketchbook on the bed.) Computer
Science major?

Chris: Oh, this? I just draw in my spare time.

(She does look like an artist. Leather jacket with the back painted, dressed all
in black. She doesn't have any of the characteristics of a geeky comp sci major.
And she was still a girl.)

Richard: Um, I knew this was a co-ed dorm, but --

Chris: Oh, forgive me for not explaining. Actually, I'm supposed to be a guy. I
checked the "M" box by accident on the application. And since my name is Chris,
no one ever found out I was really a girl. I don't mind if they think I'm a guy.
It means I get to live on a floor with about a hundred guys. And room with one.
You don't mind, do you? (Laughs.)

Richard: Well, heh, heh . . .

Chris: I mean, how many guys can say their roommate's a girl? Well, I gotta go
register for classes. Bye! (Exits.)

Richard (To himself): Don't worry, Richard, this isn't actually happening.
(Returns to writing letter.) Well, Mom, I've determined that college life is
going to take a little getting used to.

Jimmy (Poking his head in): Hey, Richard, the Freshman Get-To-Know-Me Picnic is
in 15 minutes. Not gonna miss it, are ya?

Richard (Grinning and bearing it): No. No chance of that.

Jimmy: Ok, see you there, Richard. (Exits.)

Richard (Writing): Yup. I miss home already.

(Blackout.)

(Next scene is same room, that night. Richard is lying on his bed reading a Star
Trek novel. Enter Chris with her sketchbook.)

Richard (Still expecting Chris to be a guy): Hi.

Chris: Have you been in here all day?

Richard: Yeah.

Chris: Why don't you go out and so something?

Richard: I have been doing something. Reading. (Flashes her his book.)

Chris: I see. Well, after I finished registration, I went to the top of the Phee
Building and sketched the Quad. This really is a beautiful campus.

Richard (Back to reading): Mmm

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