Yep... earlier today (4:30-ish until almost 6:00), I was at the basket auction thing they had in the ballroom here at SVU. Basically how it worked was girls would put together food and stuff in a basket, then guys would bid on the baskets (based only on what food was in there; we weren't told which girls made what basket until after the bidding was finished!), with starting bids of $5.00. Only a couple of the baskets really went much higher than that (I think one went for $20.00, another for $13.00, and a third for $12.00 or $10.00 or so)... most of them were right at $5.00 (the starting bid) or $6.00. I made bids on five of the baskets, and for the longest time I was the only bidder on those... until a ton of people started bidding on the one with New York Deli sub sandwiches, then I was only the lone bidder on four of them. XD
I ended up being the winning bidder on two of them in the end; one of only two bidders on one (a picnic-type meal with sandwiches, tiny carrots, chips, Capri Sun juice pouches, Oreos, and Uno cards), and the only bidder on the other one (brownies, cookies, hot chocolate, and a movie.) Obviously can't go on two dates at once, so I talked to the girls who made both of the baskets and found that the girls with the picnic lunch were planning on having their date right after the auction, while the one with lots of chocolate-based food was okay with it being sometime later (especially since the brownies hadn't actually been made yet--there was literally a box of brownie mix just sitting in the basket. So no worries about the food going back before the date even happens! XD)
But yeah... ended up going on one of my two dates earlier today, which turned out pretty well and was a lot of fun (and not as strange as I had originally imagined the whole "double date" thing being--I couldn't figure out how the heck it was even supposed to work, having two guys and two girls instead of just one of each, but it really wasn't that weird after all.) We ate most of the food (a couple of sandwiches left over, along with a handful of Oreos and half a bag of chips, which I brought back to my room with me), talked about all sorts of random things, goofed off, and played half a dozen games of Uno, three of which I actually won, amazingly enough. I guess my luck was abnormally good today--got to go on one date, have another one planned for next week sometime, and actually won at something for once. I guess the Uno victory isn't really quite so impressive compared to the other stuff, heh. By the end, it had actually been close to three hours; first we were over in the breezeway (that hallway thing between Chandler and Main Hall), using the random church pews in there as booth-type seats and the mini-tables as... well, tables. But apparently the people watching the play next door could actually hear us from there, so after someone came out and told us that we decided we should probably move to somewhere else. After looking around for a bit we decided on the Main Hall lobby area, right there in front of the door; we sat this big green blanket down on the floor and just took our shoes off and sat on it, then picked up right where we left off with the food and Uno (and the other guy who was there taught everyone how to throw cards--apparently it's not quite as simple as "grab card, throw card," you need to hold it a certain way and flick your wrist to get it to actually go very far.) Lots of talking, food, Uno, and other assorted random stuff before eventually everyone figured they should probably wind the whole thing down and go off to other stuff they needed to do (a bonfire, giving the money raised by the basket auction to the guy in charge of it, and... my history paper.) Overall it went pretty well, and now I won't be so weirded out if someone ever suggests a double-date to me since I know it won't necessarily be really strange and/or "leave Eddie out of everything"-ish.
I never did figure out which of the two girls was "my date" and which was the other guy's, though. I guess it doesn't really matter too much since it wasn't like... the "holding hands and cuddling and possibly kissing" kind of date, more of just a random silly thing for fun... but still, kind of funny how that happened. XD
Now I just have to finish that paper for Western Civilization... and then figure out when my other basket-auction date is going to be. (Kind of funny how one of the two baskets I ended up winning--the one that nobody else even made any bids on, even!--just happened to belong to one of the girls that I was wanting to try asking on a date eventually anyway. Odd coincidence there.)
Oh, and in completely unrelated news, I've started (a bit late) to write something for NaNoWriMo, based on that picture I drew of the mountain with the pointy-eared people and such. So far I've got around 3600 words done, which is... about 13000 behind where I'm supposed to be, since I didn't even start until 10 days into the month. Oh well! I doubt I'll get anywhere near 50,00 but at least I'll have started on this story, and maybe I'll get around to finishing it sometime later on.
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