Well... this week hasn't exactly been the best week, so I guess that's understandable. Monday I can't remember clearly enough to say if it was good or bad (though I know at least parts of it sucked), Tuesday was crap, Wednesday started off good and then turned to crap, and Thursday was up and down throughout the day. A class I was in went to Washington DC for a trip... bad part: we had to get up in time to leave at 7 AM (or so they said; we didn't actually leave until around 7:30.) Car ride over was okay, then once we got there things got crappy--I once again got left behind while I was in the bathroom and everyone else in the group rushed off to who-knows-where, leaving me wandering the museum aimlessly until I finally figured out where the exhibit we were supposed to be looking at was. This took around 40 minutes, and every minute of that was pure crap, to the point where I was completely unable to even enjoy the museum because I was so pissed off at the fact that I got left behind again. Eventually I found the exhibit (which was on the other side of the museum, in a different building... would've been nice to actually mention that, Mr. Always-Too-Vague-About-Things Teacher Guy), found a few people from the class, and things started to get a little better. Then we left the museum and went to get food... supposedly we were going to this really good Italian restaurant nearby. Instead, we went to this weird French place that appeared to have nothing but tiny cold sandwiches. I wanted to eat a big lunch so I wouldn't necessarily need to eat dinner (since dinner was at the art show later and was almost guaranteed to be borderline-inedible fancy crap), and tiny cold sandwiches was not going to work. Fortunately, one of the other people in the class remembered that other restaurants exist and we went to one (the same place I went to last time, Potbelly's) and I got a huge Italian sub and some chips. Much better.
After that, the day got better for a while. Lunch was good, sitting around talking while waiting for our parking spot to be paid for wasn't bad, got to eat one of those "Choco Taco" things from an ice cream cart on the street. The trip through the second museum wasn't bad at all--got to see the Ai Weiwei exhibit (he's a Chinese artist who the government doesn't like very much... considering that he's taken pictures of himself giving the finger to the US and Chinese governments, I'm guessing the feeling is mutual. XD) After that there was another drive (shorter this time) to the Mariott hotel where the art show/sale was taking place. Students got to set up the paintings that people had brought in, and afterward we... were supposed to do other stuff, but I never actually was given anything to do, so I mostly just sat around bored until dinner started. Dinner was, as predicted, borderline-inedible fancy crap. Salad with random fruit in it, salmon/chicken with tons of asparagus randomly dumped on it, and some weird mushroom Hot Pocket, also with asparagus dumped on it. Seriously, excessively-fancy chef people, most people do not want asparagus dropped on top of their food. Take a lesson from actual restaurants and put it on another plate off to the side or something, if you really must put it there. Of course, I couldn't eat any of that, so my "meal" was several slices of bread (it was good bread, at least) and a glass of water. Then after the choir performance, they came out with the dessert, which was this ridiculously good cheesecake; a little circle of cheesecake with almond slices around the edges, several different fruits/berries on top of it, and whipped cream and this raspberry-ish sauce. If that had been about twice the size that it was, it would've made up for how bad the rest of the meal was... it was that good. After that, more sitting around and being bored (except for one brief time when the people who were bubble-wrapping the paintings left and I had to step in and do their job for a few minutes, heh) until we headed home. The ride back home was pretty good... the car I was in got lost for a bit and then ended up wandering off to a different city to buy an aux cable for their car, so they could listen to the soundtracks from random musicals on the way home. We didn't get back until 1:30 in the morning... XD
Friday was... okay, I guess. Went to see the Shenanigans show, which was actually pretty funny (only a couple of jokes I didn't get this time, mostly related to the fact that I haven't seen/read The Hunger Games.) Can't remember much else about Friday. Saturday's DC trip turned out really good, amazingly; we went on a bus instead of the school cars/vans this time (since several different classes were going), and I ended up sitting with Ruth on the rides over and back. We went to the in-museum restaurant and ate lunch together (which was really good--I had this orzo pasta salad with shrimp in it and some mushrooms/onions/peppers in balsamic vinegar, which were all amazingly good! Plus a regular salad and french fries), which was very expensive but good. After that she had to go off to her drawing class's meeting, though, so for most of the rest of the time in the museum I was wandering around by myself. It wasn't bad this time, though, since it wasn't a "got left behind and am now wandering around aimlessly" kind of wandering, more of a "actually looking at the museum stuff and drawing/writing about things, so I don't really need other people around that much for a while" wandering. Saw a few other people from various classes throughout the day, and then toward the end I bumped into Ruth again in the Chinese pottery section. By that time it was pretty close to time to leave, so we only got to see a couple more things (she hadn't seen the furniture section so I directed her to where that was, and then we both looked through the photography section which I hadn't seen yet) before going back out to the giant front steps to wait for the bus. Overall, a great trip. If only the day had ended shortly after we got back from that, Saturday would've been a great day (...as is, it was still probably the best day of this week, but it's not like it really had much competition for that.) Instead... we got back early, and I made the mistake of going to the Halloween dance.
Which was terrible. They had DJ Can't-Turn-The-Volume-Down-To-Save-His-Life in charge again, just like the first dance this year, and as usual the volume was way too high the whole time. It may not have been quite as bad as it was in the first two dances, but he sure as hell never turned the volume down even after I went up and asked him. As unimportant as it is to me actually enjoying a dance, the music wasn't even as good as usual; toward the end they played a few things that only barely even qualify as music (seriously... some girl screaming "oh my god" is not an instrument or singing or even a good sound effect.) They even played that obnoxious "Party Rock" song again for the 39376th time. And this is the stuff that the guy who complains about the music at other dances being not-so-good picked out? Yeah... a little hypocritical there, I think. Only actually got to dance with someone once (one girl actually came up and asked me, amazingly enough)... every time I thought I might actually be able to ask a girl to dance, the exact girl I was going to ask always disappeared. Yeah... it was a pretty depressing dance. The only good part was the costumes people dressed up in, honestly... if not for that it would have probably been the worst dance of the year, or at least tied with the first one.
As for general stuff rather than stuff from specific days... my "girls I might ask on dates" list has shriveled way into next-to-nothing now. I can no longer imagine a date (much less an actual relationship) with one of the girls I've liked for a while going very well... there's just too many issues there and I don't think things would ever work out with the two of us. It doesn't help that I can't figure out what she thinks of me, so I don't even know if she would be even remotely interested in going on a date with me (probably not. I'm honestly not sure if she even considers me a friend.) Plus, she probably won't even be here next year, so if it did actually work out and we ended up dating or whatever... she suddenly wouldn't be there for my last year of school here. It's basically a "nothing good can ever come of this" situation with her.
There's still Ruth, but... I still feel weird about the possibility of asking her on a date after the whole "not interested in relationships yet" thing from last year. I mean, I guess maybe she could've changed her mind by now (it has been a year, after all), but I have no way of knowing that, so I'm really afraid to even bring up the possibility of going on another date or something... I just have no way of knowing whether it would be a good idea or not. I mean, I definitely like her and would definitely like to go on more dates with her, but I don't want to freak her out or anything and I really don't want to go through all the trouble of asking someone on a date (and it is really hard for me, even now that I've actually done it a few times before) just to get yet another "no" in response...
There've been a few other girls this semester that I've briefly thought of asking on dates, but I somehow always manage to convince myself that it would be a bad idea within a week of getting the thought. And the one time so far that I didn't do that, it ended up not working out anyway (though thankfully the homecoming dance turned out great even without me having someone to go to it with.) I don't know what the problem is here... it's really annoying, though, whatever it is.
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