What a good/bad/average day. (Yes, all three at the same time.)

Sometimes literally.  Yeah... today was a weird one.

First, the good.  I actually managed to finish one of those paintings I need to do before next Monday.  This means I only need to do... four more of them... which is still way too much.  But now it should at least be somewhat manageable, at least if I decide for sure not to come home over the weekend (and this would be a great weekend to come home on--especially if Mom and Julia come get me on Friday instead of Dad getting me on Saturday, so I can go to the Shootaround and get away from school for a while... though for the most part I like being here, just get worn out sometimes when certain things happen.)  Also, when I sent a text message to Ruth letting her know that I think she's cute, she didn't freak out and start avoiding me or any other of the "typical 17/18-year-old reaction to finding out I like them" things I ran into several times in high school... she actually still wants to be friends and said she really likes talking to me, so at least I didn't lose one of the closest friends I've ever had over a freakin' text message.

Now the bad part.  Ruth pretty much came out and told me that she's not ready for an actual relationship yet, since it's her first year of college and she's trying to focus on her schoolwork and do well on it right now and it seems like she doesn't think she could handle all that and a relationship.  At first it didn't really bother me (I was more relieved that my text message telling her that I thought she was cute didn't bother her or anything, and I wasn't going to lose a friend over something dumb like that), but afterward... yeah, the whole "Ruth most likely will not be my girlfriend" thing hit me pretty hard and I felt pretty terrible for a while.
The way she worded it didn't rule out the possibility of something happening between us eventually, but... not anytime really soon, possibly not even this whole year.  Even as much as I like her (and I really like her, probably more than I've ever liked a girl before... though the fact that it isn't completely one-sided and she actually likes talking to me, going on dates, etc. probably helps), I really don't think it'd be a good idea to just wait around (not going on dates or anything with other girls, etc.) for a year or so for what basically amounts to a very vague "maybe" and a feeling that for the first time it might actually be possible for something to happen there (once the first-year-away-at-college problems are gone, anyway.)
Also, on a completely unrelated note, I think I may have slightly hurt one of my legs when I tripped in this random giant hole on the side of a hill and fell.  Fortunately, no knees got busted up this time, but still... it hurt a bit.

And the average part? Everything else, pretty much.  Just the usual school stuff, nothing really worth writing about here.