Not a direct quote there, but skeletonized fish were mentioned (when talking to a girl from Texas, who mentioned that she was so amazed by the school's koi pond because there are no fish in Texas. That's when the "skeleton fish in cheesy Old West desert scene with tumbleweeds" sort of image came up. Which reminds me, I should draw a desert with skeleton fish randomly lying around.)
Anyway, today was mostly good with a little bad (okay, a big bad--my pad of paper for painting class got misplaced and I think someone else in the class accidentally picked it up and took it back with them instead of their own...) and a lot of boring toward the end (not much to do after 8:00 when nothing's going on and you don't have much homework and/or can't do your homework due to not having the materials... especially if you don't have a girlfriend or anything. Seeing guys and girls walking around together, presumably dating or something, always kind of depresses me for some reason.)
I finally got a water container to use for painting class--the aforementioned girl from Texas, who I've talked to a few times before and am getting to know pretty well, gave me a ride to the dollar store nearby and I bought this huge water bottle and some cheapo styrofoam cups (45 for $1.00!) so I don't have to use my little decorated cup from the '90s dance every time I need one. Of course, the next time the painting class even meets is next Wednesday, so I won't actually need it for a while... but it'll be good to not have to borrow the HRA's pitcher at least, and this bottle actually has a lid and can be carried long distances without always spilling everywhere.
"Unofficial Spanish tutoring" went really well. I tend to think of myself as being pretty bad at teaching other people how to do stuff, but I might actually have to reconsider that opinion now... it seemed like I was able to explain stuff pretty well and the girl I was "tutoring" really did seem to be getting better with some of the things she had problems with (conjugating verbs, switching verb forms in a question in order to answer, pronouncing things correctly) by the end of the hour-and-twenty-minutes or so that we were in the library. On top of that, I actually got to know her pretty well and we talked about all kinds of other random stuff in addition to Spanish. We actually got to talking about politics at one point, which I had been really worried about but somehow it turned out fine--we actually agreed on a lot of things (two-party system kinda sucks, Democrats and Republicans are a lot more similar than either side wants to admit, Lincoln was a good president, some things that happen during one presidency aren't necessarily "President _____'s fault" just because he was the one in office at the time) and nobody got pissed off at any point, which was pretty different from what I was expecting out of a political discussion. Makes me slightly less worried about the possibility of asking out that one girl I mentioned before whose political views are probably very, very different from mine... I mean, I've already talked to her about religious differences and we actually seemed to agree pretty well there, so chances of a political discussion spontaneously turning into HULK SMASH!! probably aren't as high as I would normally expect them to be.
We also talked about dating, oddly, and I ended up finding out that she had only been on two dates in her life... so I guess there's a chance that not every girl I meet here is that much more experienced dating-wise than me. It probably helps that most of them are 5-7 years younger than me (though not all, I've met someone who's 23 and one who may actually be a year or two older than me), but fortunately everyone's still in that range where all ages still look pretty much alike and it's really hard to tell the difference (I was mistaken for a high school senior just last year!)... so even that much of an age difference probably won't seem creepy at all to anyone in their right mind. I still haven't gotten around to asking any girl about what the fact that I'm not a Mormon might mean for my chances of having any sort of a relationship with the girls here, but... I'll try to get that question in somewhere before the end of the week at least. I don't really want to ask a guy about that kind of thing because it seems the guys are a little more strict about the little nitpicky rules of their religion than the girls, and plus asking a guy about what girls think is always a pretty stupid idea from what I've seen over the last 10 or so years.
Random thought: I wonder if helping out someone with one of their classes like that qualifies as a service project for the Leader-Servant class. I mean, it is "something that helps people" (both the person learning Spanish, and anyone she may have to talk to in Spanish in the future!) and it is somewhat time-consuming, though it's essentially just talking so it was the kind of time-consuming where you lose track of time rather than the more boring kind where you keep checking your watch every few minutes.
Knees are healing up (covered in scabs now, not much if any bleeding anymore) so maybe I'll get at least a tiny bit of jogging in this week after all. Or at least a walk. I might try to walk down to the Buena Vista public library sometime and see if I can find any of those books Ruth recommended... maybe they might have a bit more of a selection than the school library, at least when it comes to fiction books. Or if my knees are still not feeling well, maybe I could get her to give me a ride over there. I wonder if technically asking a girl to go to the library and look for books with you could qualify as a "date"... after seeing so many girls walking around with guys or sort of laying halfway on them in the library couches, I'm getting a little worried that all of the girls I'm starting to like will jump face-first into relationships before I even get a chance to even attempt to ask them out. Of course, she said she wasn't currently interested in any dating-related stuff on one of her DeviantArt journal posts, but... who knows? Definitely not me, I don't even know for sure if I'll even be able to ask a girl out... let alone actually pick just one to try and ask out (that's a lot harder than you'd think, there's so many cute girls around! And most, if not all, of them are actually nice and don't mind talking to me.)
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