I think I may be avoiding sitting in my room too much from now on--sitting in the library seems to work just as well if not better, and it's never quite as lonely as an empty dorm room when nobody's around. Plus hanging around in the library seems to make it easier to bump into new people to talk to (or in some cases people I already know, or in still other cases people I've met once but hadn't really talked to for more than a minute or so before then.) Plus, if I'm not sitting around in my room all the time, I'll probably be able to avoid any more somewhat uncomfortable encounters with the missionaries.
I seem to be getting better at remembering names, too; I was able to remember the names of everyone I bumped into today (that I'd talked to before), mostly on my first try, and some of them were even people that I didn't know very well yet. Hopefully I won't need to be asking anyone for their name four times anymore. XD
Spanish tutoring wasn't quite as weird as I expected; it's required for the class but you don't really need to do a whole lot to get credit, just show up and look over your books or do some homework or even just talk about Spanish-related stuff with random people. So not quite "tutoring" in the "you're doing horribly at this class and need help" sense.
Ended up bumping into and talking to tons of people at supper tonight... I sat at something like three or four tables before the meal was over, though I had finished eating a pretty long time before then and was just drinking some lemonade by the second or third table. They had both burritos and hotdogs tonight, so no salad for me! Plus I managed to keep my burrito from falling apart by double-wrapping it with another tortilla. Found out that one of the girls I've gotten to know has actually been to McAffee's Knob before, which I wasn't expecting; I can't remember where she's from (...I want to say Oklahoma, but I can't remember off the top of my head) but I kinda figured nobody who wasn't from around here would know about McAffee's Knob. I also found out that she's only a little younger than me, not 18/19-ish like I had previously assumed (I guess I was expecting "average college student" ages from everyone, and she really doesn't look any older than the 18/19-year-olds, so...)
Did some more jogging, both in the morning and at night this time. Only managed three blocks in the morning, but pulled off six of 'em at night, so it evened out to almost as much as I got in last night. I'm up to about a mile and three quarters now, which means I only have to jog another three-quarters of a mile before I'm done with the two-and-a-half that we need before the end of the week. Considering that I've been getting 9 or 10 blocks a day when I either jog a lot at once or do it both in the morning and at night, I think I should be able to pull it off before Saturday's over, if not earlier.
The school's doing a Wizard of Oz play on Saturday night, and since I have nothing else to do aside from jogging (which I could do afterward) I'll probably end up going. Tickets are... 6 dollars, I think, which shouldn't even put a dent in my stash that I brought to school with me, so I shouldn't have any problem going and seeing it.
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