The "bouncing back and forth between good and bad" day

Found out at breakfast that no, I won't be able to sign up for that date auction thing after all.  Turns out there was a deadline and I probably didn't find out that it even existed until right before that deadline... so I won't be able to go to that (and possibly actually go on a date for the first time in my life) after all.  I was pretty pissed off about that at several points throughout the day... not sure why it bothered me that much but it did, I just kept going back to that and getting pissed off all over again and it just got worse every time.  Fortunately, talking to girls for long periods of time seems to really help with that sort of problem, and by the end of the day I can probably consider it more of a "mostly good" day rather than just a crappy day.

Of course, I probably didn't really need the date auction thing to end up on a date, that's probably just me underestimating myself as usual... I'm actually sort of getting a little less convinced that girls just don't like me now, and I might even try to ask a girl out (somehow) within the next week or two once my knees heal up and I get to know people even more than I already do.  It'll probably be really hard to do, of course, but... who knows? I might actually pull it off, and the girls here all seem really nice, so it's entirely possible they might not say no if I did ask! So I guess the really hard part is figuring out who to (attempt to) ask on a date, since there's just so many girls here that seem really nice and (of course!) several that I actually think I might like a bit more than others, heh...

Oh, and now there's yet another picture I drew hanging up on someone's wall.  This time it's a desert scene with skeleton fish, which I drew and colored for Ruth (who is from Texas, and was amazed by the amount of water and fish there are around here.  Which led to the joke about how the only fish in Texas are skeleton fish lying out there in the desert.)  I may end up drawing a birthday cake for another girl (who turned 18 recently and asked me to draw her something, and then suggested a cake) but I'm not sure how that'll work out... not really a lot of experience with drawing cakes.