Yep... this Friday ended up being surprisingly non-boring. Finished another painting (third out of the five that I need to get done before Monday; there's only two left now), volunteered at the front desk for an hour and a half (okay, this part was a little boring), and then at 7:00 decided to go over to the Fall Carnival thing that they were having in the parking lot of the Institute building. Turned out there was a lot of stuff to do there, and I ended up bumping into a bunch of people I knew, so I pretty much wasn't bored at all the entire time. They had hot chocolate (which was very hot, by the way... had to wait probably 10 or 15 minutes to let it cool down before it became drinkable without a spoon), tiny little pumpkins and markers you could use to draw on them (I drew a somewhat exaggerated version of my dad's face on mine XD), and a bunch of random silly games and stuff, like "fishing" for little plastic toys (I ended up with a noise-maker and a little smiley-face thing with balls on strings hanging off of it; originally I had a broken whistle, but I traded it to someone for the smiley-face thing), bowling with Nerf balls and pins, and the throw-beanbags-into-a-hole-in-a-board game which is apparently called "cornhole" (which... I did not know. I'd seen the game itself before years ago when I was a little kid, but had never heard anyone call it "cornhole" until last year.)
Afterward, I ended up staying to help clean up, and then me and a couple of girls ended up exploring the random creepy tunnels upstairs in the church, which I had no idea were there until then. Apparently the door leading to the stairs that go up to the second floor/attic/whatever-it-is is usually kept locked, but it was open today because they store all the game equipment up there. We walked around up there for a while and found such mysterious things as the device that runs the church's internet connection (kept in a locked box... with the keys hanging from the lock! whoops) and a bunch of pipes and ventilation shafts. Also, it was really dark up there, and we only had a tiny little finger-flashlight thing to light the way. Kind of a fun side-trip though, I never knew all that stuff was up there and I like walking around in random places like that.
After that I ended up walking Melissa (one of the girls I was hanging around with at the Fall Carnival; also one of the two who went up into the creepy attic) back to her house-dorm-thing at Carriage (the "sort of off-campus" student houses, I guess? I never knew exactly where they were until today, which is part of the reason I wanted to walk over there--I'd heard people mention the place but never actually seen it), and she kind of gave me a tour of the area (which had lots of Halloween decorations up--tons of fake spiderwebs and pumpkins everywhere!), stopping in at her house for a few minutes so I could see it and meet her housemates, and also dropping by someone else's for a second to drop off a hat that someone had left in the parking lot. I kind of got disoriented on the way back out, though, so she ended up having to walk me back over to the entrance area of Carriage where I could actually see the road leading back up to the school before she could go back home. Might be easier during the day, but it was dark and I had no idea where I was going. XD
And after that, I ended up bumping to a few more girls I knew at the Institute building when I ran in really quick to use the bathroom... and then ended up sitting in there and talking to them for a while, while they worked on puzzles and stuff. They ended up walking with me back to Craton afterward, and then they wanted to see what the lobby area of Craton looked like, so we all went in and sat on the couches for a while (and ate some chips and drank more hot chocolate, which the HRAs just happened to have with them at the moment we came by.) Ended up leaving the chips for anyone who wanted them, and one of the girls used a Bible to weigh down the top of the chip bag so they wouldn't fall out... and left a note on them saying "Eat! ...and read!" on little business-card type things that were laying around. I'm not sure if anyone's actually touched the chips yet, though, since they were still there (with signs still in place) this morning when I was down there.
Overall, a pretty good day! Now I just need to finish those other two paintings...
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