Just in case you didn’t already assume as much, I am definitely not one of the people who is super-psyched for the Royal Wedding.

I’m sure Will and Kate are perfectly nice people, but I just can’t get that excited about their wedding and all of the massive hoopla surrounding the event.

And yet, I somehow can’t help but stay really informed about it. Sure, I’m a journalist and tend to know a lot about what is going on in the world. But beyond writing a story about the announcement of the wedding date, I haven’t had any actual need to know this information.

In several recent conversations someone has mentioned a piece of Will and Kate news — like that the blouse she wore in the engagement photos was available in stores again — and I had to admit I was already aware. (Sad side note: To find that link, all I had to Google was “Kate blouse”).

I also know there’s a Lifetime movie about the couple, which happens to star a former Susquehanna University student as Kate.

She was apparently only there for a semester during my sophomore year, and I’m fairly certain I never met her. But given what she says about the school in an interview on Lopez Tonight, there’s at least a chance my roommate, Shawn L., did. (The brief Susquehanna portion starts around the 3:27 mark).

She basically says she wasn’t a big fan of the middle-of-nowhere, Amish country nature of the school and that there wasn’t much to do in the area. None of that is totally false — the campus is in a quiet, rural section that has lots of stores nearby and some great local business in town. It’s not exactly the New York club scene, but as the esteemed rock band Harvey Danger once said, “If you’re bored than you’re boring.”

Unlike Camilla, some people who come from big city areas actually like those aspects as a complete departure from what they’ve known the rest of their life. I found it refreshing to be able to drive somewhere without sitting in traffic, or to walk down the street in town and have a stranger walking by say hello to you.

And if that’s not for her, that’s OK. I’m not sure as a freshman I would have liked the University of Maryland, but as a graduate student I loved it.

What I found kind of funny about the interview — and where Shawn L. comes in — is when she mentions hanging out at the gas station as one of the prime attractions.

Me outside the Sunoco gas station in Selinsgrove, Pa., sometime during the 2001-02 school year (Photo by MinChin)

Shawn absolutely despised campus food and spent a good chunk of time at that gas station buying donuts and all kinds of random treats to eat instead. In fact, those habits earned him the nickname “Tastykakes.”

I can definitely see Camilla eating her nachos at the gas station as Shawn and his slightly humorous mustache stumbled in at 2 a.m. in search of some Swiss Rolls. Now that would have been a great conversation.