Yesterday was mostly a really good day (aside from the fact that I slipped on wet grass during Spanish class and re-opened my knee wounds just as they were getting healed up really well... ugh.) I actually didn't get back to my dorm room until around 2:30 because I ended up walking up to this amphitheater up in the woods behind the lofts (one of the girls' dorms) with some people I sorta-know and sitting around a campfire talking and stuff for a while. I think that was pretty much the only time in my life that I've ever had anything to do at 2 AM aside from sleep or sit at home bored, heh. Went pretty well overall; somehow managed to make the walk up that hill even with my knees in the condition they're in, had a s'more while I was up there, did a lot of talking and finally got to see that Youtube video about llamas that all the girls have been talking about for the past few weeks (and despite the minor goriness of it... it was actually kind of funny, albeit very weird.) Also heard a lot of most-likely-honor-code-violating uncensored rap music and a Dave Chapelle video, both of which nobody really seemed to be too offended by, or at least not enough to do anything more than mention the fact once kind of jokingly (I guess Mormons are not quite as strict about the no-cursing thing as I thought, heh.)
The rest of the day was pretty good too, aside from the further knee injuries. Finished up the random scene I had been drawing, and talked to a few guys and (of course XD) a lot of girls, including some I hadn't met before. One I actually ended up talking to for a very long time despite having never met her before, and we actually kinda went a little more in-depth about what I believe in and actually found some similarities between my own afterlife-related beliefs and what the Mormons believe. It's kind of interesting how most people here seem to focus more on the similarities than they do on the differences when it comes to religious things--I haven't yet had someone just go off and start yelling at me about how wrong I am and that I need to convert or yer goin' to Hell! like the type of loud, angry religious people I always used to run into.
Apparently everyone I've asked on the subject seems pretty convinced that I would have a good chance of actually getting a date if I was able to ask in the first place, and that most girls wouldn't turn me down just because I'm not Mormon since generally it's more important that I seem like a generally decent person rather than what religion I belong to. I think I'm going to sign up for that date auction thing (despite the slight creepiness about it) and see what that's like, maybe actually going on a date without having to ask the girl myself might make it a little easier for me to try it "for real" later on. A little bit of a confidence boost, I guess. Overall I think I am getting a little less nervous about that sort of thing; I'm definitely not having much trouble talking to people that I don't know anymore, and talking to people I do know has gotten to be so easy that it seems weird not to talk to them! And heck, I've brought up the dating issue so often lately that I'm probably even getting less nervous about talking about that sort of thing. Maybe all these people I've asked about it are right, and I probably could ask a girl out if I only tried.
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