Yeah, I guess I forgot to post here for a few days there... oh well. I'm no longer sick at all (still an occasional lingering cough, but it's less and less often now and not nearly as bad as before; I don't have to be drinking something 24/7 to avoid coughing and sore throats anymore, which is always good) and have pretty much gotten caught up on my homework (just got a woodblock Cthulhu done yesterday, and I should get started on the 2D Design stuff later today if I have time, or early/mid-tomorrow if I can't find any time today), so classes and such should go pretty well from here on assuming I don't get sick again or get buried under another homework-avalanche anytime soon. I also went ahead and registered for classes for next semester, though I'm not sure how that's going to turn out. I'll apparently have to do my senior art show thing next semester after all, rather than next year, but that might work okay... depends on how much other homework I have, I guess. At least I'm not waitlisted for 3579 different classes this time (that's seriously the first time that ever happened, me signing up for classes and not being waitlisted for any of them!)
I've been continuing to go to the social dance club meetings, and I've gotten a lot better at the whole "actually dancing" thing. I still have a lot of trouble going up to girls and actually asking them to dance, but sometimes I've actually been able to pull it off, even when the girls are total strangers or close to it (which I was never able to do before)... I just need more practice, I guess, though I don't think it's something I'm ever going to actually be good at (I might eventually get to the point where I can do it, but it'll still be really hard and nervousness-inducing.) The actual dancing is quickly becoming the easier part, though... yesterday I attempted one of the more complicated moves from the country swing dancing we learned a while ago, and I somehow managed to pull it off without even realizing that I was doing it. I just did this entire long complicated chain of dancing stuff unconsciously. Seriously... I never thought anything like that would ever happen, since I've always had so much trouble with any kind of dancing and just could not get it... but apparently when I get enough practice I suddenly become able to do it, and once I'm able to do something for a while I just kind of pick it up well enough that I can do it without even thinking much about it. I guess I really can't say "I can't dance" anymore, at least as long as I'm talking about dancing that involves actual steps instead of the weird random dancing that most people do to fast songs.
Still haven't gotten around to really asking a girl on a date yet this semester, though hopefully I'll be able to at some point. I had originally planned on asking a girl from my Spanish class to go to the play with me sometime this week, but then while talking to her the other day I found out that she'd already gone and didn't have money to spend on going to see it a second time, so I ended up not asking her after all. I still want to try asking her to go on an actual date at some point, though; she actually kind of seems to like me (we've known each other for less than a month and she's already waving and saying hi to me before I even get a chance to say hi to her first, for one thing XD), and we're both transfer students who went to community college for a while first, so we do have some things in common. I don't know her extremely well yet, but she does seem nice and we get along pretty well, so maybe that could work? Gah... I guess I'm back to the first semester "trying to figure out who I would even want to go on a date with and then somehow managing to ask them" stage yet again.
I did manage to ask Ruth to go with me to the play, but I'm not sure if that really would count as a date or not. I haven't actually called it a "date" (I'm honestly kind of afraid to even say the word around Ruth now, knowing that she wasn't interested in relationship-type stuff yet last year even after we had gone on several dates... I mean, it's been a full year since then so things may have changed on her end, but I still get paranoid about that sort of thing and afraid I'll screw things up somehow if I go ahead and start asking her on dates again even after this long...), and I just asked her over text-message if we could go to the play together, after mentioning in another message that I hadn't gone yet because I was worried about the crowd issue and not being able to find a seat. So I'm guessing it's probably not an actual date or anything. That's okay though; I'm fine with just going and doing stuff as friends, as long as I actually get a chance to be around Ruth at all--due mostly to schedule weirdness, it seems like we barely see each other this semester, and there's only been a few times when I've actually had a chance to talk with her for any really significant length of time so far. Plus, this way I know I'll get to see the play without having to worry about not being able to find somewhere to sit, which is always a good thing.
Speaking of dating/girls-related things, I actually managed to overhear two guys talking about that sort of stuff last night, and amazingly they didn't sound like total creeps! That's seriously the first time that's ever happened. Every other time I've happened to overhear guys talking about girls they liked and stuff along those lines, it always degenerated into this "hurr hurr, she's hot" kind of thing (if it didn't start that way, anyway... and half the time it seems like guys start that bad and get worse), but somehow these two guys actually didn't say anything really creepy at all and actually seemed to care about the girls they were talking about.
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