Jogged 10 city blocks (roughly 80% of a mile in Buena Vista) today. Looks like I'm getting a lot better at it, since I didn't get nearly as worn out this time and I managed to do three blocks in a row (still my record) without stopping once again. Celebrated with a hot ham 'n' cheese (the tiny $1 one, all I could afford) and a cup of ice water (again, not enough money with me to buy a "real" drink) from Hardee's afterward, since combined with my three blocks from yesterday morning I've now finished off a full mile. I think I'm definitely going to manage to get two-and-a-half done before the week's over, especially since I'm not going home over the weekend so I'll have all of Saturday to get some last-minute jogging in if I need it.
Painting went surprisingly well today considering that I... probably didn't even do the assignment right. Apparently I saw "practice with brush strokes and watercolor techniques" as "practice them by actually painting stuff" while the rest of the class interpreted it as "practice by making squares and squiggles on the paper using the various strokes/techniques." The teacher didn't seem to mind so much (she actually seemed to like my mushrooms-and-grass painting) but then again, I haven't seen that assignment's grade yet, so... I can't really say for sure how well I did in grading terms. I'll still have to do that other assignment I didn't get finished, though it won't be for credit--at the end of the class we'll have to do the same thing over again to show how much you've improved, so I'll need the "before" picture to compare to the "after" later.
Got my Book of Mormon for that Institute class today. Haven't read any of it yet, though I'm sure I'll have a little time tomorrow (maybe during breakfast?) before the class, and the reading assignments don't seem to be especially long in that class. Also got my Art History book back (again) today, though I may have to trade it back over again tomorrow... unless the girl who's been borrowing it gets hers in the mail, anyway. She said she had two packages she hadn't checked yet so one of them might be the book.
Had kind of an odd encounter with missionaries today. Started off just talking and toward the end... kinda started seeming like a conversion attempt. Problem was that they actually seemed nice, so I couldn't really bring myself to tell them "no, that's okay, I'm not really open for conversions, go away" (and follow up with a door-slam if they insisted) like I could with some of the more aggressive conversion attempts I've run into in the past. Just couldn't come up with a nice enough way to explain to someone that no, I really am not interested in converting to your religion (or anyone's religion for that matter, I just don't think there's any one religion I fit into)... and I'm doing fine with my own beliefs as they are, so why change? Just to fit in? Hell no. Fortunately they weren't too converty today, just sort of... tried to get me to start praying, which was kind of odd. Particularly the "teaching you how to pray" thing... I mean, even if I really believed in prayer actually working (it's one of those few things I'm sort of on the fence about; with most things, I know exactly what I believe, one way or the other... or some other way nobody else thought of), it seems a little odd to define a specific "way to pray."
Also showed some people at dinner Fnrrf Ygm Schnish: Alleghany Hell School and Okédoké! La Leyenda Mexicana. Kind of had a crowd of people gather around once FYS:AHS really got going, and a few people who stayed around afterward and saw some of Okédoké! too. Somewhat surprisingly, nobody seemed to be offended by Okédoké; I'm guessing it was because it was only Señor Rialgo who cursed much (and he's intended to be a pretty stupid guy, so that kind of fit) and there were only a few drug/beer references here and there... no sexual stuff or anything like that.
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