Thought today might get boring without classes or anything to go to for most of the day, but it managed to stay pretty consistently unboring for the most part (there's always a few dips into boredom here and there, even on really good days.)
Got up obnoxiously early (7:10 again, what's up with that number?) and ate breakfast. And then went to walk in the Buena Vista parade, which was something I didn't really expect to like doing which turned out better than I was expecting, partly because I realized it was really not much different than a long walk (which I like) and partly because I managed to hang around with people I know most of the time. Well, all of the time actually, just some of them kinda ended up leaving earlier in a van, so me (and one other person) had to just walk all the way back. Unlike the van-riding people, though, we stopped in at a burger place and got drinks (or... cups of ice. I had a drink, anyway, but it also became a cup of ice later.) Turns out cups of ice cost 17 cents, which makes them pretty much the only thing you can still get for less than a quarter. Or less than 50 cents, really, unless you want gumballs or something. And there's 7 and 1 showing up again, for the fourth time (twice I've needed to lend someone exactly 17 cents, and twice I've woken up at 7:10.) If I was one of those people who thought recurring numbers like that actually had any significance I'd probably be freaking out right now, but fortunately I'm not.
After the parade there wasn't much to do, aside from the walk back to school (also lots of talking.) Apparently the girl I danced with, who has seemed unusually quiet this whole weekend, is normally pretty quiet and her "extra quiet-ness" this weekend isn't anything out of the ordinary... I'm not so sure, though, something just seems "off" to me. I mean, I noticed her sitting off by herself at dinner and went over to sit with her, and she just... didn't talk, even when I attempted to talk to her. The most I got out of her was head shakes and nods, aside from her saying "bye" when leaving. I mean, I haven't known her long enough to really tell if she isn't like that normally, but she certainly wasn't that quiet for the past week-and-a-half... I don't know exactly what's up but every time I'm around her lately I feel like something is definitely "off" in some way. I dunno, maybe I'm just being a little paranoid about it (I am related to Mom after all) but I just can't shake off that feeling that something is wrong, and those feelings are usually right.
Rained a lot. Well, during the parade (when I actually had my raincoat) it didn't rain at all... not until we got back on campus did it actually start raining. Of course, by then we were roasting and sweaty so the rain actually wasn't bad at all, especially since it wasn't a really hard rain or anything; just enough to drop the temperature a little. But for the rest of the day, on and off, it was raining pretty much all the time. I actually broke out the "regular coat" that Mom got me recently (which will probably replace my old gray coat with its falling-apart pockets) and wore that instead of the raincoat, since both are equally warm (in other words, probably too warm for the way the weather is right now) and the raincoat is a bit less comfortable. I'll still probably use the raincoat instead the next time it gets really rainy, though; the regular coat just wouldn't stop that kind of rain.
And now the obligatory food post. Had a salami, pepperoni, provolone, Monterey jack, lettuce, and pickle sandwich for lunch today, along with the usual salad. Very good even though I didn't actually manage to melt the cheese; the bread was lightly toasted though and made the rest seem a bit "warmer." I'll try and go full-blown panini next time I have a sandwich there, though; I need some melty cheese every once and a while. Also had Mountain Dew for the first time in two weeks, when we stopped at the burger place during the walk home. Probably shouldn't do that too often, what with wanting to keep those 30 Mountain Dew-induced pounds of blubber off and not get any more cavities.
Bumped into a guy I knew from Spanish class and talked a bit; talked about what kind of music we like and that sort of thing, and it turns out he likes reggae (I probably could've guessed by the shirt he had on one day, with a dreadlocked guy smoking a massive joint and multi-colored smoke drifting around.) Joked a bit about how certain country songs and rap songs are so similar--you know the ones, the songs where the singer is just basically bragging about how country (or gangsta) they are and not much else. "Yo yo yo, I got bling and hoes and drugs!" vs. "Well, I got me a rifle in the back o' my pickup truck..." Kind of a funny comparison, but very true, there do seem to be a lot of those sorts of songs. He asked me the most bizarre question I'd ever been asked, though--"When are you planning on getting married?" I mean... what? What!? What kind of question is that, even? Kind of ironic, the guy who's never had a girlfriend or been on a "real" date in his life is getting asked when he plans on getting married, like people actually don't know that I've never even been on a date in my life... wow.
Later I went to a talent show thingie that one of the LDS wards was having. Just like last Monday, I had been invited to this by two or three separate people, so I figured "why not?" and walked up to the Institute building right around 7:00, managing to get in just before the thing started. Turns out I had a seat open for me right next to the girl I had walked back from the parade with earlier; I'm unsure if she had saved the seat for me or if it was just coincidentally left open, and I forgot to ask. Either way, that meant I had a decent seat (on the outside of a row, not crammed in around a bunch of other people) and got to sit near someone I knew, so the crowding wasn't such a problem. Some people sang, others played instruments, one girl drew an anime-style portrait of a random person from the crowd (which, in his own words, came out looking like Ichigo from Bleach--kind of appropriate, as he was a tallish skinny guy with bright red-orange slightly spiky hair!), and there was some stand-up comedy and a goofy skit featuring Darth Vader, where my quote in the title comes from. "IRS" in this case was "Imperial Revenue Service," by the way. Really laughed my ass off at that one, and pretty much everyone who went up and sang/played/etc. was really good. And afterward (of course!) there was free food--this time root beer and/or cream soda floats, with vanilla ice cream. Once again, I won't need to dig out the M&M's for a snack later.
Also learned a bit more about the way Mormons work--apparently members from a certain area are split up into "wards," which there are five of in Buena Vista (mostly due to SVU's existence, as I doubt there'd be 750 or so Mormons in one small area otherwise.) Usually, every Monday those wards get split up even further into "families" (in most areas split up by actual families, I'm guessing with some friends that don't have their entire families there mixed in; in the case of the SVU/Buena Vista area, though, they're just groups of students from a certain ward) and meet up to play games, learn stuff, get to know each other, and so on. This Monday (and last) the entire wards had big events like the talent show, the barbecue I got invited to by a couple people last Monday, and so on; I'm not sure exactly what the difference is with these few weeks, maybe it's timed for the start of the school year or something. But yeah, now I know a little more about how stuff works here so I won't get so confused when I hear people mention certain things.
I met another person who draws stuff today! The one who drew the guy who ended up looking like Ichigo, to be specific. She's got a really unusual name; I honestly can't remember how it's spelled, and I'll have to ask her where the name comes from the next time I see her. Seemed like a fairly interesting person; I'd actually met her once before but this was during lunch and she didn't talk much (she was a bit more talkative after the talent show, for some reason.) She draws mostly anime-style stuff, but also Disney characters, and is insanely good at coloring things and shading; I actually couldn't see the "pencil marks" on some of her pictures the first few times I looked, they were colored in that well. Seemed slightly... "goth-ish" I guess? She was wearing these black fishnet glove-like things that covered her wrist, part of her arm, and most of her hands aside from the fingers, which I don't think I've ever seen before.
And I'll probably be getting my Art History book back tomorrow, just in time for the class. The girl who borrowed it apparently couldn't even read the chapter, she was so bored she was falling asleep in the middle of it. XD Yeah... not sure how she's going to get through that class if she can't read the book at all.
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