Heh. Title comes from something very odd I just found out about the LDS church: apparently they consider unmarried 26-year-old guys to be a "menace to society." Yeah. Let's hope the Mormons around here don't take that particular bit of the church's statements too seriously.
Anyway... the parts of this week that happened after my last post have been pretty good so far. Went to see Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Ruth yesterday night, and that was pretty good; definitely glad I got to go see it. Lots of goofy moments both in the musical itself and the one-act play that came before it ("maybe I'm not a white guy on a horse!"), and I was not expecting all the random changes to different musical styles and such throughout the play... going from '20s gangsters to a hoedown in cowboy hats to hippies (one guy even had a giant 'fro) to Elvis to French to Jamaican in one play? Definitely did not expect that to happen. I'm kind of amazed they put together everything for this (including all the practicing and such) in just three weeks... that must've been insanely hard for the people in the play to pull off, especially with classes ongoing the whole time.
Anyway, after the play ended and everyone started going home, I ended up heading over to the library instead because another one of my friends wanted help with studying for an Art History test, and I was apparently the only person she knows who had taken Art History who wasn't in her class (she didn't manage to get into any of the study groups, or something along those lines.) That went okay, since I think she knows the stuff pretty well and I helped fill in some blanks here and there... though we didn't actually get around to going over most of the stuff before it got too late and everyone had to leave the library. Oh well. It also turns out that I left a few papers in the Art History book after all; I thought I had removed them all after last semester, but apparently there were still two or three (two test review sheets, and one of notes and drawings) that had stuck in there better and were still there when she got it. Whoops. XD
Also made a trip to Wal-Mart today to get a replacement for my old toothbrush head, which has been getting a little gross lately and probably is well past needing a replacement. Plus I used it while I was sick and don't want to re-introduce any of whatever it was that got me sick back into my system that way. There was also a lot of talking involved; I ended up hanging around with one of the girls I met during the progressive lunch last weekend, and found that she's only 17 years old (!)--really was not expecting that, I would've guessed more along the lines of 19-20 or so based on the fact that she doesn't act anything like the typical teenager at all. Also ran into a surprising number of people I know in the store; unfortunately, this also meant that I found out that I won't be able to tag along with another girl (and some friends) to go see a movie this weekend after all, since her car was already full before I asked about it on Facebook due to people saying they wanted to go through text-messages and such instead. Though apparently I'm going to be on the "waitlist" for the next time she decides to get a bunch of people together to go see a movie; it's always nice to have people remember you exist, so let's hope she actually does by the time that next movie comes up. But yeah... I ended up getting that toothbrush head and a box of salsa-flavored Wheat Thins, which are really good. I should probably stop eating them and put them away before I end up eating the whole box right here.
Printmaking and 2D Design homework: still tons of it! I spent an hour or so printing multiple Cthulhus from my woodblock, trying to figure out how to get them to turn out really well so I can start using the good paper. I've managed to get them to somewhat-consistently turn out actually black rather than a dark patchy grayish color like what I got the first few times, though I'm not sure if I've gotten good enough at it to churn out multiple copies that look exactly the same (or close enough, at least.) And apparently I need to resize my Bill Clinton face for the 2D Design assignment, since the assignment's supposed to focus more on the face/shoulders/etc. and I had his entire upper body and a globe he was holding. That shouldn't be too much of a problem, though, since that assignment doesn't take forever and I can actually work on it on Sundays (since all I need is a Sharpie and tracing paper, one of which I already have and the other of which I can easily grab a buttload of tomorrow or on Saturday and bring home with me.)
And finally, dating-related stuff... because there's always that, or at least me worrying about it. I'm sort of considering asking someone on a date for tomorrow, though I am a bit worried that that's a little too short notice. I could also ask her to go on a date with me Saturday night instead, since the only part of the Mormon general conference that's airing after 6 or so on Saturday is the Priesthood part (which is intended for guys only, so there's a chance that girls won't be watching it and thus will be able to do other things instead.) Of course, I'm not sure if Mormons are okay with going on dates during general conference or not, so I may just go with the super-short-notice Friday night date idea instead. If I do end up doing this (...and I pretty much only have one chance to even attempt it... unless I happen to see her at lunch or something, then maybe it'll be two chances tomorrow), I'm thinking we could walk down into Buena Vista together and go eat at someplace not too expensive (I'm thinking Subway; partly because I really like Subway and partly because I actually have enough points on my card to get her a free sub, assuming she'd want a 6-inch rather than a footlong anyway), and then after that come back up to campus and watch the Men in Black movie together. Seems like that would work pretty well, so I just need to hope I'll actually be able to ask her (and that she isn't going to be busy with other stuff in the period before the movie starts... I may have to leave the social dance club meeting early for this, but I should still be able to go for at least part of it since it's starting super early tomorrow--at 5:00!--and usually dates and stuff are more 6:00-7:00-ish in my experience. Plus the movie is at 9:30, so that leaves some time for walking down there and back, talking, eating, talking, and even more talking... maybe some extra walking around town or up on campus if the meal and initial walks don't take up the whole time?)
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