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.
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