Actually had a lot to do this weekend so far! Painting homework, however, was not one of those things... even though this still-life is due tomorrow and I only have the cloth on the table painted (plus part of one of the dishes, but.... yeah, I doubt I'll get this one done on time, even if I show up to class early to work on it. At least I'll be able to turn my rocks in on Monday, though, since I got those done a while back.)
But anyway... Friday I ended up getting invited to go and play board games with a bunch of people (most of which I knew or at least had talked to once or twice, though there were a couple of total strangers), which turned out pretty well for the most part though I was pretty disoriented at first (unfamiliar games + big crowd + lots of noise tends to throw me off pretty bad, so it was the usual "just as soon as I get used to the rules of one game, they put it away and bring out another one" thing.) Saturday was the first meeting of the SVU Doctor Who Club, which so far is basically made up of almost nobody except people I know (there was one girl I didn't recognize, whose name I still don't know, but other than that everyone at the meeting was someone I at least had talked to a couple times before.) We started out in Durham (where we came up with ideas for a service project to do later; seemed like we'd probably end up doing something Christmas-related), then moved toward the Institute building when we found out that we couldn't use the projector in Durham, and then moved up to the Lofts when we found out that the Institute building was locked... yeah, lots of moving around that day. But eventually we did manage to watch an episode of Doctor Who, which was the one with the Weeping Angels in the old abandoned house. Since we didn't have any way to connect the computer it was on (on Netflix I think) to a TV or projector, we ended up all huddled around this one laptop, but it ended up working a bit better than I expected it to and I was only feeling overcrowded at the very start. Also had cookies, which were pretty good. And I took pictures of the whole group (...one of which had half of them covering their faces like the Angels, heh.)
Later on Saturday, I was going to go to the play (Pride and Prejudice) that the school was showing, but I ended up changing my mind because there was a good chance it was going to be extremely crowded and I'd probably freak out. I'm not sure how it would've gone if I did go, since I did have someone to sit with at least (she even said she'd save a seat for me...) so I might not have freaked out quite so much since I wouldn't have been completely surrounded by people I don't know or anything, but... oh well. Instead, I ended up going over to Carriage and watching Despicable Me with Ruth and her friend Elizabeth. The movie was good, and the whole thing turned out really well and ended up fighting off the boredom for pretty much the entire night (I was there from 7:20ish until midnight... we sat around playing chess, talking, watching silly videos, talking, looking through my notebook, and talking after the movie was over. XD) Also kind of kept me from getting any more writing done, buuut... I should have plenty of time to catch up on that today, and I think there was probably more than enough talking and general silliness to make up for not getting much done.
And, randomly, one of the topics that came up was weird misconceptions people have about Mormons. One that I had never heard before is that Mormons have horns--no, seriously, apparently some people believe that converting to the LDS church will make you magically sprout horns, and that's apparently one of the questions that missionaries get a lot: "if I get baptized, will I grow horns?" Another one I had never heard was that they're building a secret underwater tunnel across the Atlantic to transport women in from other countries so they can have them for the polygamists to marry. And amazingly, neither of the two Mormons in the room had ever heard the "won't accept blood transfusions because it's the same as drinking blood" one, which is... one of the only ones I've actually heard before (and apparently it's also not true at all, or at least neither of them had any problem with blood transfusions or had even heard of anyone having that problem.) But yeah... apparently there's a lot of weird Mormon conspiracy theories. XD
Last night I had a weird dream, but unfortunately I didn't write it down as soon as I woke up from it so I only remember one part of it right now. I was walking around at some place and came upon a table where a girl I know here at school was sitting, and for some reason she was talking about how many guys she "had to" kiss in the past. I'm not sure why she said "had to," as that sort of implies she didn't have any other choice... but she didn't sound like she was saying it like it was a bad thing, so the whole thing was really weird. There was a lot more to the dream than that (I think completely unrelated to the first part, though I can't remember for sure), but I can't remember any of it now since I waited too long before writing anything down about it.
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