Yep... done with classes, final exams, getting my room cleaned, packing, and all that stuff, and now I'm going to head back home within a few hours. Hopefully I don't get too bored back home... I don't really know very many people back there (the few friends I had over the years have mostly moved away by now, as far as I know) so it'll pretty much just be me and my family. Plus the Internet connection at home is terrible (we have the worst dial-up ever) and I'll barely be able to take showers at my mom's house due to the nastiness of the water (something got into our well and now it smells awful.)
Hopefully the break isn't too boring. I at least have Christmas presents (I'm hoping for a 3DS now that the price dropped; just need to figure out what games to ask for along with it), eating at Victor's, going to the shooting range, and goofing off with my sister and the cats to look forward to. I got almost all of my pictures delivered to the people that asked for them this week (only five didn't make it--three people left before I could get in touch with them, and two more are unaccounted for and probably already gone too), my grades are looking pretty good so far (A+ in Spanish, A- in painting, B+ in Art History, passed jogging... the rest unknown at the moment), and the semester was the best semester of school I've ever had, by far. I mean, I actually had friends that invited me to stuff outside of school, and went on dates, and randomly ended up talking to people for hours at a time... yeah, I'm going to miss being here for the next two weeks and I'll definitely be looking forward to coming back.
Even if my lunch break next year will only be 15 minutes most days of the week...
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
Exams done. Nothing left to do but draw stuff, eat, and talk to people!
...yeah, the title pretty much says it all. XD
I finished my last exam today (Thursday, actually--I count it as still "today" since I haven't gone to bed yet), and I think I did at least decently well on all of mine; I should pass them at the very least, probably get B's or A's on them if I did as well as I usually do. I've been drawing little pictures for people and giving them to them as Christmas presents this week, and so far I've finished drawing all but five of them. Only one of those five actually leaves tomorrow (as far as I know--another one of them hasn't responded to my Facebook message yet so I have no idea when she's leaving... she may have left already, even), so I should be able to rest a bit once I'm done with this last one and have it delivered to the person who wanted it. I'll still have to deliver the Friday ones that I still have and work on the Saturday ones (since I'm leaving on Saturday!), but there's not too many left overall, considering I started with 22 requests and now I only have 5 unfinished and I'm working on one of them right at this moment. A lot of today was spent walking around to different places trying to track people down and give them their drawings--I walked up to the Lofts two or three times (found two people randomly on the first trip, and the other trips were made specifically to find people I knew would be up there at that time), way out to Carriage once (she was leaving at 3 AM! there was no way I'd get it to her in time otherwise), and then finally to the Library Mods (which I've only been to once before... I got lost and had to ask for directions. XD) I've gotten so many hugs lately--apparently people really like these little drawings, because out of all the people I've given them to (especially on Thursday) half of them have given me hugs immediately afterward. I have missed two people so far; I wasn't able to get their pictures to them before they left earlier today, since they left really early Thursday morning. But it looks like I'll probably get most (if not all) of the others delivered on time.
Food has been... not so great lately, in the dining hall anyway. Well, today it was okay (they had pizza for supper!), but it seems like overall they've slipped a bit since the start of the semester... I guess they've just ran out of most of the really good stuff, or something. Twice recently I've walked down to random restaurants in town just to not eat there, even though the dining hall food is free for me. I've also eaten at Jonzzey's several times too, but that happens a bit more often than walking down to restaurants. But yeah, speaking of the random restaurants--in addition to Subway, I've also been to Hardee's once, and I tried that hand-breaded chicken sandwich they've been advertising for a little while now. Turns out it really is hand-breaded: when I asked about it, the guy in the back cooking the food said "This is what it looks like before I cook it" and held up this huge chunk of raw chicken. Was actually pretty good, too, though I did find a yucky part that probably should've been trimmed off before it was cooked (of course, I pretty much only like white meat on chicken, so a lot of people probably wouldn't have minded it... but this one little part was a little gross to me, so I pulled it off and then ate the rest.)
Since classes are done and final exams don't take up too much time, there hasn't been a lot to do lately besides talk to random people. Have been doing some of that (more today than most days, actually!), along with working on these drawings and trying to get them to everyone before they leave. And tomorrow I'm going to walk down to Burger King with some people and get free french fries (because they're apparently giving them out tomorrow), which will be a combination of my two recent pastimes in one. XD
I finished my last exam today (Thursday, actually--I count it as still "today" since I haven't gone to bed yet), and I think I did at least decently well on all of mine; I should pass them at the very least, probably get B's or A's on them if I did as well as I usually do. I've been drawing little pictures for people and giving them to them as Christmas presents this week, and so far I've finished drawing all but five of them. Only one of those five actually leaves tomorrow (as far as I know--another one of them hasn't responded to my Facebook message yet so I have no idea when she's leaving... she may have left already, even), so I should be able to rest a bit once I'm done with this last one and have it delivered to the person who wanted it. I'll still have to deliver the Friday ones that I still have and work on the Saturday ones (since I'm leaving on Saturday!), but there's not too many left overall, considering I started with 22 requests and now I only have 5 unfinished and I'm working on one of them right at this moment. A lot of today was spent walking around to different places trying to track people down and give them their drawings--I walked up to the Lofts two or three times (found two people randomly on the first trip, and the other trips were made specifically to find people I knew would be up there at that time), way out to Carriage once (she was leaving at 3 AM! there was no way I'd get it to her in time otherwise), and then finally to the Library Mods (which I've only been to once before... I got lost and had to ask for directions. XD) I've gotten so many hugs lately--apparently people really like these little drawings, because out of all the people I've given them to (especially on Thursday) half of them have given me hugs immediately afterward. I have missed two people so far; I wasn't able to get their pictures to them before they left earlier today, since they left really early Thursday morning. But it looks like I'll probably get most (if not all) of the others delivered on time.
Food has been... not so great lately, in the dining hall anyway. Well, today it was okay (they had pizza for supper!), but it seems like overall they've slipped a bit since the start of the semester... I guess they've just ran out of most of the really good stuff, or something. Twice recently I've walked down to random restaurants in town just to not eat there, even though the dining hall food is free for me. I've also eaten at Jonzzey's several times too, but that happens a bit more often than walking down to restaurants. But yeah, speaking of the random restaurants--in addition to Subway, I've also been to Hardee's once, and I tried that hand-breaded chicken sandwich they've been advertising for a little while now. Turns out it really is hand-breaded: when I asked about it, the guy in the back cooking the food said "This is what it looks like before I cook it" and held up this huge chunk of raw chicken. Was actually pretty good, too, though I did find a yucky part that probably should've been trimmed off before it was cooked (of course, I pretty much only like white meat on chicken, so a lot of people probably wouldn't have minded it... but this one little part was a little gross to me, so I pulled it off and then ate the rest.)
Since classes are done and final exams don't take up too much time, there hasn't been a lot to do lately besides talk to random people. Have been doing some of that (more today than most days, actually!), along with working on these drawings and trying to get them to everyone before they leave. And tomorrow I'm going to walk down to Burger King with some people and get free french fries (because they're apparently giving them out tomorrow), which will be a combination of my two recent pastimes in one. XD
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Hark the herald angels sing, glory to the newborn king! After that, I don't know the words, mumble mumble hmm hmm hmm...
Heh... me and a bunch of friends went caroling earlier tonight, and the title of this post was actually said, word-for-word, by me toward the end (apparently I'm the only one who has basically no ability to remember song lyrics... well, I did remember "Silent Night" but that was the only one, the rest I maybe knew one line and then just hummed along with the general tune of it if I didn't have the words right in front of me.) Despite my lack of singing ability, it actually went really well--this was the first time I'd ever been caroling, and it was kind of fun to just wander around to different houses surprising people (by singing) like that. And it seemed like most of the places we went, we got invited inside and given food (candy several times, and once cookies!)
Also found out that there are apparently multiple versions of "Joy to the World"--the one I was familiar with said "and heaven and nature sing," while the one they were singing today was "and saints and angels sing." Which I guess technically makes more sense, since people (dead or otherwise) are generally a lot better at singing than places or vague concepts are, but... still kind of unexpected. I guess it's a Mormon thing, since it seems like they use the word "saint" even more than the Catholics do, while most other Christian denominations I know of don't talk about saints much if at all.
In other news, went home over the weekend and got kinda bored for a while before I left to come back here to school today. I hope my family actually does stuff over the Christmas break, because otherwise I just might die of boredom staying home and not having any contact with the friends I've made here at SVU (between bad Internet and even worse cell phone reception, I might not hear from them even if someone does try to get in touch with me! maybe I should tell people my home phone number or something...) Final exams are coming up but those should be no big deal, aside from the ones that are at 8:00 in the morning for some insane reason. Wouldn't it make more sense to give the 8 AM exam times to the classes that actually happen at 7 or 8 in the morning, rather than the 9:30 or 10:00 classes?? There's a reason people avoid early morning classes, y'know--so they don't have to get up that early!
Also got started on both of my last two painting assignments over the weekend; did some of the wood frame parts of the door for the stained-glass window one on Saturday, and almost got my self portrait finished on the first try earlier today (the only thing that's definitely not done is my eyes, so I look kinda creepy right now with weird blank white pupil-less eyes...) Should definitely be able to get those done by 3:00 on Tuesday, especially since I have no exams at all on Monday.
Also found out that there are apparently multiple versions of "Joy to the World"--the one I was familiar with said "and heaven and nature sing," while the one they were singing today was "and saints and angels sing." Which I guess technically makes more sense, since people (dead or otherwise) are generally a lot better at singing than places or vague concepts are, but... still kind of unexpected. I guess it's a Mormon thing, since it seems like they use the word "saint" even more than the Catholics do, while most other Christian denominations I know of don't talk about saints much if at all.
In other news, went home over the weekend and got kinda bored for a while before I left to come back here to school today. I hope my family actually does stuff over the Christmas break, because otherwise I just might die of boredom staying home and not having any contact with the friends I've made here at SVU (between bad Internet and even worse cell phone reception, I might not hear from them even if someone does try to get in touch with me! maybe I should tell people my home phone number or something...) Final exams are coming up but those should be no big deal, aside from the ones that are at 8:00 in the morning for some insane reason. Wouldn't it make more sense to give the 8 AM exam times to the classes that actually happen at 7 or 8 in the morning, rather than the 9:30 or 10:00 classes?? There's a reason people avoid early morning classes, y'know--so they don't have to get up that early!
Also got started on both of my last two painting assignments over the weekend; did some of the wood frame parts of the door for the stained-glass window one on Saturday, and almost got my self portrait finished on the first try earlier today (the only thing that's definitely not done is my eyes, so I look kinda creepy right now with weird blank white pupil-less eyes...) Should definitely be able to get those done by 3:00 on Tuesday, especially since I have no exams at all on Monday.
Friday, December 9, 2011
Okédoké!!
Not a huge amount of stuff going on lately, since the semester's almost over... but I think I'll have enough stuff to fill up some space here now. XD
Anyway, the title--not related to my game Okédoké! La Leyenda Mexicana at all, actually. In Spanish class today, since it's the last day of class, we had to bring in Hispanic-related food of some sort and we'd get extra credit points if we did (along with being able to eat it.) Made up for the fact that I had a very small breakfast (just Pop-Tarts since I woke up at 9:00 and had to rush to get my shower, breakfast, and tooth-brushing out of the way in time) and lunch (just a salad)... ate some tomato pizza, chips and salsa, and these two desert-type foods people brought in, one of which was like cinnamon sugar tortilla chips and the other was sort of like French-toast-mini-pancake things. And drank some Jarritos, which were what I brought to the class (I think I freaked the Jonzzey's workers out a bit, coming in there and saying I was going to buy 16 Jarritos... XD) We also watched part of The Polar Express in Spanish... but it was just the end of the movie pretty much, so I wasn't sure what was going on, heh.
Earlier this week... well, not much earlier, since it was just yesterday... it was Ruth's birthday, and Elizabeth and I had a sort of mini surprise birthday party for her at Carriage. Elizabeth made muffins (with birthday candles in them!) and I made a birthday card, and there was lots of talking and general silliness for a while before Ruth had to live (and then some more talking afterward, because I have a hard time leaving abruptly when I'm in the middle of talking to people and there is absolutely nothing else to do.) After that, though... I ended up making the mistake of agreeing to go along with some random people I met in the library, who said they were going to Wendy's. I thought Wendy's would be open (it's not--apparently the Wendy's around here closes at midnight except on Fridays and Saturdays), just like how I thought there'd be four people going and they ended up picking up someone else along the way, making the back seat incredibly uncomfortable and basically turning a short car ride into torture for me. The last... 2 minutes or so on the way back weren't so bad, since someone figured out "hey maybe the guy who freaks out in crowded place shouldn't have to sit in the back seat of a small car with two other people," but by that point it was already so bad that there was no way to really make things much better. Fortunately, today's been pretty good, even though I didn't get too much sleep after that (didn't get back until after 1:00, didn't go to bed until 2:00, probably didn't actually get to sleep until 2:30 or later... bleh.)
And I've finally got my Historic Virginia trip journal turned in (hopefully they'll give those back after the semester's over, I actually had some pretty good drawings of stuff in there and I'd hate to lose them forever), along with my Leader-Servant packet. That means the only homework-type stuff I have left are those two paintings, a self-portrait (ugh!) and the stained glass window from Main Hall (bigger paper, so it'll take a while.) They need to be done by Tuesday, and I'll probably be going home to visit my parents this weekend, so... I have what's left of today, part of Saturday, part of Sunday, all of Monday, and part of Tuesday to get them both done. Shouldn't be too hard, considering I managed to get five paintings done in a week once and I didn't even know what I was going to do for most of those ahead of time.
Also, I got people to playtest The K'hyurbhi Lands! Well, the first little part of it, anyway. With some advice here and there, neither of them got killed even on their first try playing the game, though they came a bit closer sometimes than I'd expect people who are familiar with OHRRPGCE games to. I was actually kind of surprised that someone managed to play through Kirber's segment of the "training to fight King Numm" part, since it's pretty long and a lot harder than either Nummer's or Upchukk's, but she managed to get through by running away from every encounter that had Rock Bugs or multiple snails/slugs, using lots of Yums, and usually not wandering too far off the right path up the mountain. Upchukk's, on the other hand, ended up being a bit harder than it should've been due to the playtester's refusal to buy any armor at all. XD
But still, they both managed to make it through (albeit with hardly any money, due to buying tons and tons of Yums during Kirber's story) without ever having to start over once. They only found two minor glitches--the chef in Nummy's sometimes gets in the wrong spot and blocks the way during the last part of Upchukk's story, and it's possible to run into random encounters during the "finding the cookbooks" scene of Nummer's story. Shouldn't be too hard to fix, though I thought I had fixed the chef already...
Anyway, the title--not related to my game Okédoké! La Leyenda Mexicana at all, actually. In Spanish class today, since it's the last day of class, we had to bring in Hispanic-related food of some sort and we'd get extra credit points if we did (along with being able to eat it.) Made up for the fact that I had a very small breakfast (just Pop-Tarts since I woke up at 9:00 and had to rush to get my shower, breakfast, and tooth-brushing out of the way in time) and lunch (just a salad)... ate some tomato pizza, chips and salsa, and these two desert-type foods people brought in, one of which was like cinnamon sugar tortilla chips and the other was sort of like French-toast-mini-pancake things. And drank some Jarritos, which were what I brought to the class (I think I freaked the Jonzzey's workers out a bit, coming in there and saying I was going to buy 16 Jarritos... XD) We also watched part of The Polar Express in Spanish... but it was just the end of the movie pretty much, so I wasn't sure what was going on, heh.
Earlier this week... well, not much earlier, since it was just yesterday... it was Ruth's birthday, and Elizabeth and I had a sort of mini surprise birthday party for her at Carriage. Elizabeth made muffins (with birthday candles in them!) and I made a birthday card, and there was lots of talking and general silliness for a while before Ruth had to live (and then some more talking afterward, because I have a hard time leaving abruptly when I'm in the middle of talking to people and there is absolutely nothing else to do.) After that, though... I ended up making the mistake of agreeing to go along with some random people I met in the library, who said they were going to Wendy's. I thought Wendy's would be open (it's not--apparently the Wendy's around here closes at midnight except on Fridays and Saturdays), just like how I thought there'd be four people going and they ended up picking up someone else along the way, making the back seat incredibly uncomfortable and basically turning a short car ride into torture for me. The last... 2 minutes or so on the way back weren't so bad, since someone figured out "hey maybe the guy who freaks out in crowded place shouldn't have to sit in the back seat of a small car with two other people," but by that point it was already so bad that there was no way to really make things much better. Fortunately, today's been pretty good, even though I didn't get too much sleep after that (didn't get back until after 1:00, didn't go to bed until 2:00, probably didn't actually get to sleep until 2:30 or later... bleh.)
And I've finally got my Historic Virginia trip journal turned in (hopefully they'll give those back after the semester's over, I actually had some pretty good drawings of stuff in there and I'd hate to lose them forever), along with my Leader-Servant packet. That means the only homework-type stuff I have left are those two paintings, a self-portrait (ugh!) and the stained glass window from Main Hall (bigger paper, so it'll take a while.) They need to be done by Tuesday, and I'll probably be going home to visit my parents this weekend, so... I have what's left of today, part of Saturday, part of Sunday, all of Monday, and part of Tuesday to get them both done. Shouldn't be too hard, considering I managed to get five paintings done in a week once and I didn't even know what I was going to do for most of those ahead of time.
Also, I got people to playtest The K'hyurbhi Lands! Well, the first little part of it, anyway. With some advice here and there, neither of them got killed even on their first try playing the game, though they came a bit closer sometimes than I'd expect people who are familiar with OHRRPGCE games to. I was actually kind of surprised that someone managed to play through Kirber's segment of the "training to fight King Numm" part, since it's pretty long and a lot harder than either Nummer's or Upchukk's, but she managed to get through by running away from every encounter that had Rock Bugs or multiple snails/slugs, using lots of Yums, and usually not wandering too far off the right path up the mountain. Upchukk's, on the other hand, ended up being a bit harder than it should've been due to the playtester's refusal to buy any armor at all. XD
But still, they both managed to make it through (albeit with hardly any money, due to buying tons and tons of Yums during Kirber's story) without ever having to start over once. They only found two minor glitches--the chef in Nummy's sometimes gets in the wrong spot and blocks the way during the last part of Upchukk's story, and it's possible to run into random encounters during the "finding the cookbooks" scene of Nummer's story. Shouldn't be too hard to fix, though I thought I had fixed the chef already...
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Hard to believe the semester's almost over...
Yeah, only two weeks of school left now, and one of those is just final exams. It really doesn't seem like it's been that long at all... though that's probably just because school actually hasn't been boring at all (the whole "time flies when you're having fun" thing, I guess.)
Lots of stuff going on lately. First of all, I had a weird dream a few nights back where I for some reason had to walk across some boardwalk-type thing to this other building just to take a shower, and when I finished I forgot to put clothes on and didn't notice until I was almost back to the building I had started out in (which looked sort of like SVU's dining hall, but more "restaurant-ish" on the inside and it had a wooden porch thing on the outside.) I kind of ducked back outside for a while trying to make sure nobody saw me, but eventually someone (a girl I know at school, actually) saw me anyway... but she barely even reacted to seeing someone walking around naked, she just said "Oh, you're naked" and then walked back in the direction she had come from to begin with. After that I went back to the shower place, put clothes on, and then bumped into someone else (can't remember who) outside on the boardwalk/porch area. We were talking and for some reason slavery came up, at which point this tall, skinny black guy sitting on a bench nearby randomly said "You're against slavery, right? Well, did you know insurance is a form of slavery?" ...yeah, apparently he thought that insurance companies were somehow enslaving people, or something. Like I said, a weird dream.
Finishing up work in my classes, too. Seems like there's only a couple more paintings left in that class; we read 1984 in Western Civilization recently (and had a little quiz on it, which was probably the first quiz I've done well on in that class for a while--the days where there's quizzes are always the same days where I didn't read the stuff in the book beforehand!), and it turns out that the paper we were supposed to write for Art History is going to be optional (in other words, I'm not going to do it.) Did a presentation in Spanish, which actually went surprisingly well; had to talk about my family for 5 minutes, and I managed to pull it off by including the cats, dogs, and chicken along with the human members (since I, unlike a lot of people, have a pretty small family and I don't know many of my more-distant relatives.) I've got a bit of Spanish homework left, but after Monday there won't be anymore--that's the last day we have to turn in all homework that's due, or overdue, for that class. I'm still a bit behind on my reading for my Institute class, but not quite as badly as the week or two where I was still back in the middle of 2nd Nephi when the rest of the class was multiple books ahead of me. Also learned recently that Mormons believe in life on other planets, and that they say the oldest planet (or the oldest inhabited planet, anyway) is called "Kolob" and has a day as long as a thousand Earth years. Kind of interesting, considering a lot of Christian denominations don't like the idea of aliens much and some actively believe that Earth is the only planet in the entire universe with any life at all.
Have had a lot of stuff to do lately besides classes, too. Unfortunately one of those things has been "go to the bathroom constantly because I was sick Monday and I've had this minor lingering case of diarrhea ever since," but it hasn't been bad enough to really get in the way of anything and it seems to finally be going away now. I've been playing Kirby: Mass Attack a lot recently since I bought it at Wal-Mart a couple weeks back, and I think I'm getting close to the end of the game now, or at least close to the point where it does the traditional "that wasn't really the last level--this is!" thing that most Kirby games seem to do. Also been working more on The K'hyurbhi Lands; I've finished the town of Yumboro and Moray's Island (or, at least, what little bit of Moray's Island you can get to right now) and have started on Roastiso Island. Once that's done, I just need to finish up Spam Valley and make a few more little optional areas like Christy's house and Plekoboro before I'll be ready for something resembling a demo release. I'll probably keep going until the point where the Alligator Teacher gets released instead, though, since stopping short of that would mean you'd run into an "End of Demo" right after Spam Valley and going beyond that would mean I'd have to make a ton of new maps... maybe cut it off after the first encounter with the Alligator Teacher, if not after the scene where she's released from her prison by the Umpupu.
Earlier this week, I ended up going to this open-house thing a couple days back with Elizabeth (in which we ate free food and hot chocolate, and watched little kids goof off), and then yesterday almost went to the Five-Star Quintet show at the free-cookies place down in Buena Vista with her and Ruth... "almost" because we realized after showing up that it was super crowded and you had to pay to get in. Oh well.
And today was insanely busy--first at 3:00 there was a Doctor Who club meeting, where we ate TARDIS-cupcakes, watched a couple of Christmas-related episodes (one of which I'd never seen before, the other of which I'd seen around 75% of before but not the very early bits), and made hats for the Angel Tree. Well, I didn't make any hats because they only had so many of the little hat-loom things and they seemed a bit complicated for me (since I haven't really done any weaving/knitting/etc. whatsoever), but several other people started on hats with them. Nobody actually finished but one of the hats was at least starting to look like a hat by the end!... it just had a hole in it. After that, I had a half-hour break before going over to Elizabeth's house down in Carriage and watching a movie (How to Train Your Dragon) with her and Ruth. I'd never seen the movie before, and it's one that's been on my "movies I should watch sometime" list ever since very, very early in the semester when Ruth told me about it (and kind of freaked out when she heard that I hadn't seen it.) Actually really liked it, though. I wasn't expecting the one dragon (Toothless) to act like a kitty half the time, heh... he even did the "cat wiggling its butt before pouncing on something" thing. And also barfing up half-eaten fish. XD
And then once the movie was over, almost immediately I had to leave and get ready for the dance which started at 9:00... it was one of those "dress up in somewhat formal-ish clothes" ones, so I had to change beforehand. It was actually a masquerade ball type thing; I didn't have a mask to bring with me, but that was okay since a lot of people didn't bring one (some got one face-painted onto them after they got there, but I got an octopus on my face instead. XD) The dance went really well; like the last couple of dances, I actually managed to ask someone to go with me (Melissa this time), and she ended up sort of teaching me how to dance! Still a bit clunky, but at least I can actually move around somewhat now; I even managed to do a couple of those "move a certain way when the song says so" dances, which had always really confused me before for some reason. And learned how to spin girls around while slow-dancing, heh. Kind of unexpected, but definitely not a bad thing at all; maybe now I won't be so unable to do anything at dances, even if I don't end up going with anyone. And, as mentioned before, I got an octopus painted on my face... I also ate a few of these little ham-and-cheese croissant sandwich things, some tomatoes, and a chocolate mini-eclair-ball thing from the food trays they had out. The dance seemed to go by insanely fast--by the time I actually thought to check the time, it was almost 11:00 already! They ended up keeping it going until 11:40 rather than 11:30, and I hung around a little bit afterward to talk to random people, but it still seemed like it was over too fast.
Lots of stuff going on lately. First of all, I had a weird dream a few nights back where I for some reason had to walk across some boardwalk-type thing to this other building just to take a shower, and when I finished I forgot to put clothes on and didn't notice until I was almost back to the building I had started out in (which looked sort of like SVU's dining hall, but more "restaurant-ish" on the inside and it had a wooden porch thing on the outside.) I kind of ducked back outside for a while trying to make sure nobody saw me, but eventually someone (a girl I know at school, actually) saw me anyway... but she barely even reacted to seeing someone walking around naked, she just said "Oh, you're naked" and then walked back in the direction she had come from to begin with. After that I went back to the shower place, put clothes on, and then bumped into someone else (can't remember who) outside on the boardwalk/porch area. We were talking and for some reason slavery came up, at which point this tall, skinny black guy sitting on a bench nearby randomly said "You're against slavery, right? Well, did you know insurance is a form of slavery?" ...yeah, apparently he thought that insurance companies were somehow enslaving people, or something. Like I said, a weird dream.
Finishing up work in my classes, too. Seems like there's only a couple more paintings left in that class; we read 1984 in Western Civilization recently (and had a little quiz on it, which was probably the first quiz I've done well on in that class for a while--the days where there's quizzes are always the same days where I didn't read the stuff in the book beforehand!), and it turns out that the paper we were supposed to write for Art History is going to be optional (in other words, I'm not going to do it.) Did a presentation in Spanish, which actually went surprisingly well; had to talk about my family for 5 minutes, and I managed to pull it off by including the cats, dogs, and chicken along with the human members (since I, unlike a lot of people, have a pretty small family and I don't know many of my more-distant relatives.) I've got a bit of Spanish homework left, but after Monday there won't be anymore--that's the last day we have to turn in all homework that's due, or overdue, for that class. I'm still a bit behind on my reading for my Institute class, but not quite as badly as the week or two where I was still back in the middle of 2nd Nephi when the rest of the class was multiple books ahead of me. Also learned recently that Mormons believe in life on other planets, and that they say the oldest planet (or the oldest inhabited planet, anyway) is called "Kolob" and has a day as long as a thousand Earth years. Kind of interesting, considering a lot of Christian denominations don't like the idea of aliens much and some actively believe that Earth is the only planet in the entire universe with any life at all.
Have had a lot of stuff to do lately besides classes, too. Unfortunately one of those things has been "go to the bathroom constantly because I was sick Monday and I've had this minor lingering case of diarrhea ever since," but it hasn't been bad enough to really get in the way of anything and it seems to finally be going away now. I've been playing Kirby: Mass Attack a lot recently since I bought it at Wal-Mart a couple weeks back, and I think I'm getting close to the end of the game now, or at least close to the point where it does the traditional "that wasn't really the last level--this is!" thing that most Kirby games seem to do. Also been working more on The K'hyurbhi Lands; I've finished the town of Yumboro and Moray's Island (or, at least, what little bit of Moray's Island you can get to right now) and have started on Roastiso Island. Once that's done, I just need to finish up Spam Valley and make a few more little optional areas like Christy's house and Plekoboro before I'll be ready for something resembling a demo release. I'll probably keep going until the point where the Alligator Teacher gets released instead, though, since stopping short of that would mean you'd run into an "End of Demo" right after Spam Valley and going beyond that would mean I'd have to make a ton of new maps... maybe cut it off after the first encounter with the Alligator Teacher, if not after the scene where she's released from her prison by the Umpupu.
Earlier this week, I ended up going to this open-house thing a couple days back with Elizabeth (in which we ate free food and hot chocolate, and watched little kids goof off), and then yesterday almost went to the Five-Star Quintet show at the free-cookies place down in Buena Vista with her and Ruth... "almost" because we realized after showing up that it was super crowded and you had to pay to get in. Oh well.
And today was insanely busy--first at 3:00 there was a Doctor Who club meeting, where we ate TARDIS-cupcakes, watched a couple of Christmas-related episodes (one of which I'd never seen before, the other of which I'd seen around 75% of before but not the very early bits), and made hats for the Angel Tree. Well, I didn't make any hats because they only had so many of the little hat-loom things and they seemed a bit complicated for me (since I haven't really done any weaving/knitting/etc. whatsoever), but several other people started on hats with them. Nobody actually finished but one of the hats was at least starting to look like a hat by the end!... it just had a hole in it. After that, I had a half-hour break before going over to Elizabeth's house down in Carriage and watching a movie (How to Train Your Dragon) with her and Ruth. I'd never seen the movie before, and it's one that's been on my "movies I should watch sometime" list ever since very, very early in the semester when Ruth told me about it (and kind of freaked out when she heard that I hadn't seen it.) Actually really liked it, though. I wasn't expecting the one dragon (Toothless) to act like a kitty half the time, heh... he even did the "cat wiggling its butt before pouncing on something" thing. And also barfing up half-eaten fish. XD
And then once the movie was over, almost immediately I had to leave and get ready for the dance which started at 9:00... it was one of those "dress up in somewhat formal-ish clothes" ones, so I had to change beforehand. It was actually a masquerade ball type thing; I didn't have a mask to bring with me, but that was okay since a lot of people didn't bring one (some got one face-painted onto them after they got there, but I got an octopus on my face instead. XD) The dance went really well; like the last couple of dances, I actually managed to ask someone to go with me (Melissa this time), and she ended up sort of teaching me how to dance! Still a bit clunky, but at least I can actually move around somewhat now; I even managed to do a couple of those "move a certain way when the song says so" dances, which had always really confused me before for some reason. And learned how to spin girls around while slow-dancing, heh. Kind of unexpected, but definitely not a bad thing at all; maybe now I won't be so unable to do anything at dances, even if I don't end up going with anyone. And, as mentioned before, I got an octopus painted on my face... I also ate a few of these little ham-and-cheese croissant sandwich things, some tomatoes, and a chocolate mini-eclair-ball thing from the food trays they had out. The dance seemed to go by insanely fast--by the time I actually thought to check the time, it was almost 11:00 already! They ended up keeping it going until 11:40 rather than 11:30, and I hung around a little bit afterward to talk to random people, but it still seemed like it was over too fast.
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