Yep... both Friday and Saturday turned out really good, even though they're usually among the worst days of the week for me. That was a surprise. But anyway... Friday I ended up going to see the play ("Battlefield of Love," which was written by an SVU student), and surprisingly I actually had people to sit with even though I didn't explicitly ask anyone to go with me this time. It probably helped that I had been hanging around with Ruth and Elle in Jonzzey's immediately before they went, so we went in (and got our seats) at pretty much exactly the same time. The play was pretty good; lots of goofiness! And despite some weird seat moving business before it started (and the fact that Creepy Mofocka was sitting disturbingly close to where I was for the first half before abruptly disappearing during the intermission), everything turned out okay on the "crowd freakout" end of things too. Afterward there was more silliness in the parking lot for probably an hour or more, and then finally Ruth gave me a ride home.
Apparently all the goofiness (and hugs!) from Friday kind of "recharged" me somehow, because Saturday I was pretty much alone all day... and yet I didn't get bored, didn't get lonely, and really didn't even notice that I was having a fairly uneventful day for the most part. Seriously... besides walking to Subway for another ham sub with mustard (...those are really good, by the way) and getting some work done on my Printmaking project (I've actually done a few layers of aquatint now; should be able to get that done or close-to-done on Monday and then start printing if turned out pretty well), I basically did nothing all day until the dance later on! I think all the goofiness and talking (and just being around people I really like) from Friday was what I've been missing all this semester, and the lack of that sort of thing up until now might have been part of why I've felt so weirdly lonely and bored all semester up to this point. Hopefully I'll stay "charged up" for another few days after this point too, because it makes it a lot easier to go through day-to-day stuff by myself without getting bored!
Also, there was a dance yesterday... and that turned out really well, too! It looked like it was going to be abandoned the whole time at first (there was hardly anyone there when I arrived, and that was 10 minutes after it started...) but I didn't end up getting depressed and lonely this time... I wandered around the SAC and found some weird rooms and stairs that I didn't know existed before. And then once people started to show up, the dance itself got better (amazingly, I actually managed to ask a girl to dance within the first 45 minutes or so without much difficulty--that never happens!), and I ended up dancing 6 or so times (a few waltzes and a few regular slow dances) throughout the whole thing, as well as taking a bunch of pictures and talking to all sorts of random people.
And afterward... I didn't just go home and do nothing for a couple hours! Nope, it turned out a few of my friends (and an acquaintance and a stranger) were going to Waffle House after the dance, and one of them asked me if I'd like to come along. I had never been to Waffle House before, and breakfast-food-as-a-snack and having people to talk to for a while both sounded pretty good, so I decided to go along with them. Turned out pretty well--I had a glass of milk and a waffle with strawberries and blueberries in it, both of which were really good, and got to sit around and talk about random stuff until close to 1 AM before we decided to head back home. I had heard about people randomly going off to Waffle House late at night before, but this is the first time I've actually had a chance to do it. I can understand why people like doing stuff like that now. XD
Also got to drive for the first time in a while, and pretty much my first time ever driving someone else's vehicle... one of my friends (and housemates) broke his ankle and wasn't able to drive another guy home like he normally would, so I was asked to give him a ride home instead. Despite my mom's constant fears on the subject, it looks like my ability to drive does not magically fade away with lack of practice, because I didn't really have any trouble driving, even in an unfamiliar vehicle in a part of Buena Vista that I haven't been to very often. Backing out at first was slightly tricky (but it always is) and parking took me a bit because at first I had not pulled in very far (trying to avoid bumping the concrete block thingie, I ended up stopping way short of it instead. XD), but it turned out pretty well. Now I guess if there's ever a situation where I need to borrow someone's car, I won't have to feel so nervous about the whole situation... as long as it's automatic transmission, anyway.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Friday, February 15, 2013
Wasteoftime's Day
...was actually not completely terrible, which was surprising considering how it started off (with me being unable to sleep until ~2:30 last night because some guy was watching TV in his room, and then a continuation of the usual "everything I try to do doesn't work" trend from the previous day.) By the time I got to my Sculpture class, though, it got a lot better. I made a random ball of wire (because I had no actual project-based work to do since I don't have my Muppet skull yet) and Professor Waldrop randomly played the Frito Bandito song (from old Fritos commercials) in the class, and people were randomly singing bits of it for the next couple hours afterward. XD
Printmaking went okay too; I have the resin (and spraypaint) on my plate again now, so I should be able to dunk it into the acid and start the aquatint process for real this time (and actually go through the whole process of multiple acid-dunks to get some parts darker than others this time, instead of just putting it in once and then taking it out to print it... and in the process destroying the resin/spraypaint layer that would make it possible to do more shading on it afterward.) So I'll probably get that done tomorrow or Saturday, not sure which at the moment. Also ended up bumping into a lot of people I knew at meals (...okay, mostly at supper... I think I had someone to talk to at lunch also, but somehow I can't remember who it was at this point... which is really weird), got a hug so strong that I was almost worried I'd get knocked over (the second time that's happened here!), and bought a balloon-bear (with balloon-flower) and sneakily gave it to Ruth by putting it in the Spanish classroom that they have tutoring in before she got there. That'd be the first time I've given someone anything for Valentine's Day since high school; I haven't seen her at all since then, though, so I didn't get to see her reaction and I don't know if she knows it was me who gave it to her just yet--I didn't put my name on it at all. XD
Also went to the "Maze of Time" meeting (one group among the school's creative-writing club) for the second time, and just like the first time it ended up leading to a ton of goofiness. And, in the case of Michelle and Clarissa, high-pitched squeaky fangirl rants about Naruto. XD I think I end up adding at least one new quote to my random quotes list every time I go to these things, heh. Not sure if I'll end up writing anything for the next one (the prompt is "marshmallows and chickens"), but who knows? Maybe if I get bored one day and don't have much (or any) homework to do I might write some random little thing about... chickens... and marshmallows. Or maybe just marshmallow chickens...?
I still have no idea when (or if?) I'm going to be able to go to the play that's being shown tomorrow and Saturday. I was thinking of going tomorrow since there's a dance on Saturday and they probably overlap with each other... but I don't know if I'll have anyone to sit with, which is a major problem due to my crowd-freakout issues. I do want to see this thing at some point, but.... it's looking like I might miss my only chance because I never really got around to asking anyone about it. Guh...
Printmaking went okay too; I have the resin (and spraypaint) on my plate again now, so I should be able to dunk it into the acid and start the aquatint process for real this time (and actually go through the whole process of multiple acid-dunks to get some parts darker than others this time, instead of just putting it in once and then taking it out to print it... and in the process destroying the resin/spraypaint layer that would make it possible to do more shading on it afterward.) So I'll probably get that done tomorrow or Saturday, not sure which at the moment. Also ended up bumping into a lot of people I knew at meals (...okay, mostly at supper... I think I had someone to talk to at lunch also, but somehow I can't remember who it was at this point... which is really weird), got a hug so strong that I was almost worried I'd get knocked over (the second time that's happened here!), and bought a balloon-bear (with balloon-flower) and sneakily gave it to Ruth by putting it in the Spanish classroom that they have tutoring in before she got there. That'd be the first time I've given someone anything for Valentine's Day since high school; I haven't seen her at all since then, though, so I didn't get to see her reaction and I don't know if she knows it was me who gave it to her just yet--I didn't put my name on it at all. XD
Also went to the "Maze of Time" meeting (one group among the school's creative-writing club) for the second time, and just like the first time it ended up leading to a ton of goofiness. And, in the case of Michelle and Clarissa, high-pitched squeaky fangirl rants about Naruto. XD I think I end up adding at least one new quote to my random quotes list every time I go to these things, heh. Not sure if I'll end up writing anything for the next one (the prompt is "marshmallows and chickens"), but who knows? Maybe if I get bored one day and don't have much (or any) homework to do I might write some random little thing about... chickens... and marshmallows. Or maybe just marshmallow chickens...?
I still have no idea when (or if?) I'm going to be able to go to the play that's being shown tomorrow and Saturday. I was thinking of going tomorrow since there's a dance on Saturday and they probably overlap with each other... but I don't know if I'll have anyone to sit with, which is a major problem due to my crowd-freakout issues. I do want to see this thing at some point, but.... it's looking like I might miss my only chance because I never really got around to asking anyone about it. Guh...
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Yeah... I hate weekends here.
If anything, weekends down at Carriage are even worse than weekends in the library mods. Carriage always seemed like this huge confusing place with so many people living there back when it was just a place I visited occasionally, but now that I actually live here it feels more like a tiny little abandoned ghost-town in the middle of nowhere, so far away from the rest of SVU that it might as well not be counted as "on campus" at all. I know some of my friends live down here, but somehow I never see them around; back at the library mods I'd occasionally bump into people coming to and from their houses, or somebody would come over and visit and do random stuff like watch movies or play board games or something... but that almost never happens down here. It's pretty depressing.
Friday wasn't as bad (I got to see the first Fullmetal Alchemist movie for the first time ever! and there was talking and assorted goofiness with a couple of my favorite people at supper!), but this Saturday has been pretty awful.
In other news... I actually finished another chapter of Organization XIII: Fangirl Extermination Squad for the first time in months. I actually started writing it earlier this semester but never got around to actually finishing it... until last night, that is. Now I can finally say I've gotten the story to 30 chapters, and it's gotten to the point where the big stuff is starting to get revealed (Yoshi's origin has been all but explained, and the hints to what's going on with Kisaki are almost to the "not really just hints anymore" phase now.) Right now it looks like Chapter 31 will probably go into a bit of Kisaki's backstory, though nobody really knows all of what's going on just yet... maybe another encounter with the Keybearers in that one, too, since there won't be too much action otherwise and they haven't had much focus in a while... plus the new-and-improved Keyblade Master Riku is overdue for a reveal. Chapter 32 will probably be the more direct continuation of what began in the most recent chapter--who or what Kisaki really is being revealed, and of course a real fight scene involving her (and a certain other member who hasn't had one yet!) and the introduction of another non-numbered member I thought up recently but haven't shown off yet. Wow... it's been a while since I knew exactly what I was going to do for the next two chapters of this thing! XD
Classes are going okay... aside from Printmaking, which took me forever to come up with an idea and then, now that I actually do have one, I can't even get anything to work. I was planning on doing the aquatint process today, but instead I somehow ended up screwing up the contact paper on the back of my plate and having to spray-paint over the back of it again to make sure that the other side is completely covered and safe from the acid (...because there wasn't enough contact paper left to just put a new sheet of that on there instead.) And of course, some of the spraypaint ended up on the wrong side, which means I'm going to have to clean that side off... and completely destroy the resin that I put on there today, bringing me right back to where I was before I started. Yeah... I shouldn't have even bothered to go to the art building today, I would've accomplished just as much by staying home.
And speaking of wasting my time on stuff that ended up accomplishing nothing... I had a random Wal-Mart trip today where, instead of getting a styrofoam ball to make a Muppet skull, I ended up with absolutely nothing because they were all out of both the 8-inch and 6-inch styrofoam balls. They did have smaller ones (I should have probably grabbed some to use as eyes), blocks, and cones (...I guess if somebody wanted to make a unicorn Muppet? or one with really weird giant pointy ears? XD), but I ended up buying absolutely nothing... except food from the Italian restaurant nearby. Probably shouldn't have done that, considering that I'm trying to save my money enough that I can make it through a whole semester without bumming more money off of Mom or taking more out of my savings account... but oh well, the food was good at least. Also used my debit card for the first time today, buying an 8-inch foam ball off of Amazon... and also a 12-inch ham and turkey sub from Subway. XD
Random weird moment of the day: a friend that I haven't seen much this semester gives me a ride to the cafeteria (a trip which was yet another in the series of "things I did today that accomplished nothing," by the way), and while we're talking in the car... she starts trying to convince me to ask a girl on a date. She wasn't really specific as to which girl, but still, she was way too excited about the idea of me going on dates... it was kind of weird, honestly. Weirder was the fact that she actually said she'd go on a date with me that night if she wasn't already going on one with someone else. Yeah... sounds like a "just trying to make me feel better" kind of thing, and that's always my first thought when someone says that sort of thing, but maybe was intended the other way... in which case I've heard that before (well, not those exact words but similar) and... it did not end well the last time. Cue late-2004 flashbacks. >_<
Hopefully it was just a "trying to make me feel better" sort of thing this time, and not a would-be-well-disguised-if-that-exact-thing-had-not-happened-before way of asking me out, or suggesting to me that she would want to at least. That would be weird... especially weird considering that this girl is going away on a Mormon mission and won't even be here next year... which is pretty much the only thing keeping me from asking at least two other girls on dates right now. XD
Friday wasn't as bad (I got to see the first Fullmetal Alchemist movie for the first time ever! and there was talking and assorted goofiness with a couple of my favorite people at supper!), but this Saturday has been pretty awful.
In other news... I actually finished another chapter of Organization XIII: Fangirl Extermination Squad for the first time in months. I actually started writing it earlier this semester but never got around to actually finishing it... until last night, that is. Now I can finally say I've gotten the story to 30 chapters, and it's gotten to the point where the big stuff is starting to get revealed (Yoshi's origin has been all but explained, and the hints to what's going on with Kisaki are almost to the "not really just hints anymore" phase now.) Right now it looks like Chapter 31 will probably go into a bit of Kisaki's backstory, though nobody really knows all of what's going on just yet... maybe another encounter with the Keybearers in that one, too, since there won't be too much action otherwise and they haven't had much focus in a while... plus the new-and-improved Keyblade Master Riku is overdue for a reveal. Chapter 32 will probably be the more direct continuation of what began in the most recent chapter--who or what Kisaki really is being revealed, and of course a real fight scene involving her (and a certain other member who hasn't had one yet!) and the introduction of another non-numbered member I thought up recently but haven't shown off yet. Wow... it's been a while since I knew exactly what I was going to do for the next two chapters of this thing! XD
Classes are going okay... aside from Printmaking, which took me forever to come up with an idea and then, now that I actually do have one, I can't even get anything to work. I was planning on doing the aquatint process today, but instead I somehow ended up screwing up the contact paper on the back of my plate and having to spray-paint over the back of it again to make sure that the other side is completely covered and safe from the acid (...because there wasn't enough contact paper left to just put a new sheet of that on there instead.) And of course, some of the spraypaint ended up on the wrong side, which means I'm going to have to clean that side off... and completely destroy the resin that I put on there today, bringing me right back to where I was before I started. Yeah... I shouldn't have even bothered to go to the art building today, I would've accomplished just as much by staying home.
And speaking of wasting my time on stuff that ended up accomplishing nothing... I had a random Wal-Mart trip today where, instead of getting a styrofoam ball to make a Muppet skull, I ended up with absolutely nothing because they were all out of both the 8-inch and 6-inch styrofoam balls. They did have smaller ones (I should have probably grabbed some to use as eyes), blocks, and cones (...I guess if somebody wanted to make a unicorn Muppet? or one with really weird giant pointy ears? XD), but I ended up buying absolutely nothing... except food from the Italian restaurant nearby. Probably shouldn't have done that, considering that I'm trying to save my money enough that I can make it through a whole semester without bumming more money off of Mom or taking more out of my savings account... but oh well, the food was good at least. Also used my debit card for the first time today, buying an 8-inch foam ball off of Amazon... and also a 12-inch ham and turkey sub from Subway. XD
Random weird moment of the day: a friend that I haven't seen much this semester gives me a ride to the cafeteria (a trip which was yet another in the series of "things I did today that accomplished nothing," by the way), and while we're talking in the car... she starts trying to convince me to ask a girl on a date. She wasn't really specific as to which girl, but still, she was way too excited about the idea of me going on dates... it was kind of weird, honestly. Weirder was the fact that she actually said she'd go on a date with me that night if she wasn't already going on one with someone else. Yeah... sounds like a "just trying to make me feel better" kind of thing, and that's always my first thought when someone says that sort of thing, but maybe was intended the other way... in which case I've heard that before (well, not those exact words but similar) and... it did not end well the last time. Cue late-2004 flashbacks. >_<
Hopefully it was just a "trying to make me feel better" sort of thing this time, and not a would-be-well-disguised-if-that-exact-thing-had-not-happened-before way of asking me out, or suggesting to me that she would want to at least. That would be weird... especially weird considering that this girl is going away on a Mormon mission and won't even be here next year... which is pretty much the only thing keeping me from asking at least two other girls on dates right now. XD
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Update on the kicked-out-of-my-own-house situation
Well, like I mentioned before, I'm currently living at Mod 335 in Carriage now after being inexplicably kicked out of my own house in the aftermath of Hurricane Stupid. Looks like Carriage will work pretty well as my new home here at SVU, at least for now; haven't had any issues with any of my housemates (there's even one guy I already know pretty well), and surprisingly the heat being set at 73 or 74 doesn't seem like it's going to be a problem either... this house seems to stay cool a lot better than the library mods, and my room stays pretty cool even when the heat has been set up to 74 all day. Of course, I usually keep my vent closed just in case, but sometimes I've actually had to open it at night and early in the mornings because it actually gets cold in here.
The walk up to the rest of SVU is kind of annoying sometimes, but that's only become a problem for my 10:00 class on Mondays and Wednesdays; I was six minutes late to class this time because of that. I guess it'd be possible to start the walk earlier, but it'd be hard to fit in breakfast too in that time unless I start getting up even earlier than I already am (...which is probably a very bad idea.)
In other news, it seems like I've recently been swarmed with Mormon girls trying to get me to pray or otherwise trying to convince me to believe in (at least part of) their religion. And yes, it's always girls; the last time I had a Mormon guy try to get me to pray, it was the last time the missionaries visited my room back at Craton and tried to "teach me how" (as if the reason I didn't pray was somehow not knowing how... okay, "elders," I'm not frickin' retarded, I just don't belong to your religion and have not had any sort of experience that would lead me to believe that prayer accomplishes anything.)
In case anyone who fits that description happens to be reading: sorry girls, I am not and will never be Mormon, so if that's what you're aiming for, just give up right now. I don't mind talking to people about their beliefs, my beliefs, similarities/differences, and that sort of thing, but it gets really uncomfortable when they start talking about their beliefs as if they are absolute truth and I can pick up on that weird-as-hell "they want to get me baptized" vibe. Look, I know you have your beliefs and you may be completely convinced of them, but don't go around saying you "know" that everything you believe is true (you don't know, you believe... they are two different words for a reason!), and don't even try to tell me that if I pray about it I'll definitely get an answer from God telling me that their beliefs are true. I've prayed before, occasionally even about that very issue, and I have never gotten a response. It was no different last year, and it's been no different the few times I've tried this year, so seriously... quit trying to get me to pray. So far, it has never done anything for me. If I ever try again and get a different result, then sure, maybe I'll believe that prayer has a point... but that isn't going to make me suddenly believe every last word of your religion is true! Prayer isn't exclusive to one religion, after all. Getting a response from prayer won't prove that Mormons (or anyone else) is right, only that the concept of prayer itself is.
EDIT: Sorry if anything written in the above paragraphs sounded a little harsh... but it's been happening way too often lately and it's starting to get a bit uncomfortable, especially with a few specific people.
I've also caught up on my last Printmaking project (and turned it in!) and started on my next one for that class--a pineapple with tentacles. Yep, a pineapple with tentacles... just like an octopus' tentacles. So far I have the plate etched once; haven't tried the aquatint stuff just yet but I will probably get around to that tomorrow or some other time later on this week.
And finally, in addition to winning second place in the Heart of the OHR contest, The K'hyurbhi Lands is now listed as February's "Game of the Month" over on Slime Salad! Go download and play it if you haven't done so already!
The walk up to the rest of SVU is kind of annoying sometimes, but that's only become a problem for my 10:00 class on Mondays and Wednesdays; I was six minutes late to class this time because of that. I guess it'd be possible to start the walk earlier, but it'd be hard to fit in breakfast too in that time unless I start getting up even earlier than I already am (...which is probably a very bad idea.)
In other news, it seems like I've recently been swarmed with Mormon girls trying to get me to pray or otherwise trying to convince me to believe in (at least part of) their religion. And yes, it's always girls; the last time I had a Mormon guy try to get me to pray, it was the last time the missionaries visited my room back at Craton and tried to "teach me how" (as if the reason I didn't pray was somehow not knowing how... okay, "elders," I'm not frickin' retarded, I just don't belong to your religion and have not had any sort of experience that would lead me to believe that prayer accomplishes anything.)
In case anyone who fits that description happens to be reading: sorry girls, I am not and will never be Mormon, so if that's what you're aiming for, just give up right now. I don't mind talking to people about their beliefs, my beliefs, similarities/differences, and that sort of thing, but it gets really uncomfortable when they start talking about their beliefs as if they are absolute truth and I can pick up on that weird-as-hell "they want to get me baptized" vibe. Look, I know you have your beliefs and you may be completely convinced of them, but don't go around saying you "know" that everything you believe is true (you don't know, you believe... they are two different words for a reason!), and don't even try to tell me that if I pray about it I'll definitely get an answer from God telling me that their beliefs are true. I've prayed before, occasionally even about that very issue, and I have never gotten a response. It was no different last year, and it's been no different the few times I've tried this year, so seriously... quit trying to get me to pray. So far, it has never done anything for me. If I ever try again and get a different result, then sure, maybe I'll believe that prayer has a point... but that isn't going to make me suddenly believe every last word of your religion is true! Prayer isn't exclusive to one religion, after all. Getting a response from prayer won't prove that Mormons (or anyone else) is right, only that the concept of prayer itself is.
EDIT: Sorry if anything written in the above paragraphs sounded a little harsh... but it's been happening way too often lately and it's starting to get a bit uncomfortable, especially with a few specific people.
I've also caught up on my last Printmaking project (and turned it in!) and started on my next one for that class--a pineapple with tentacles. Yep, a pineapple with tentacles... just like an octopus' tentacles. So far I have the plate etched once; haven't tried the aquatint stuff just yet but I will probably get around to that tomorrow or some other time later on this week.
And finally, in addition to winning second place in the Heart of the OHR contest, The K'hyurbhi Lands is now listed as February's "Game of the Month" over on Slime Salad! Go download and play it if you haven't done so already!
Friday, February 1, 2013
Kicked out of my own house for NOT being a violent psychopath.
Yeah... a lot has happened in the last couple of days. First, there was Hurricane Stupid--one of the guys in my mod randomly had the heat turned up to 72 when it was only 66 outside (and thus too warm to justify having the heater on at all, let alone higher than 70) and when I turned it back down for the second time he randomly threw a fit, yelling and screaming about how "everyone in the house" supposedly agreed to turn the heat up. "Everyone in the house," it seems, means "him and one other guy" in this case (despite the fact that 10 people lived in the house at the time and at least two of them had no idea that "the whole house" had agreed to turning the heater up)... probably what happened the last time he claimed that "the whole house" had gotten together and agreed to turn it up to 73 when it was colder out, too, considering that there were several people in the house that time, also, who had never heard of this supposed whole-house decision.
But anyway... some yelling happened, some insults and such were exchanged, and once it was pretty clear that this guy wasn't going to listen to reason I just went off to my room and got ready to go off somewhere else and not bother with his crap anymore. Instead, he comes over and stands in my doorway, apparently punching the walls outside the doorframe in the process (leaving a hole on one side and a dent on the other), and yelling at me from just outside my door. I'm pretty pissed off at this point, and I toss a cup at the wall out of frustration (important note: I did not throw it at the idiot yelling at me from my doorway, because if I had I would've hit him for sure--there was only 8 or 9 feet between us, and cups have some weight to them so they aren't that hard to toss in a straight line.) Apparently he thinks I was aiming for him and (somehow) missed, because the next thing he does is come charging across my room, tackling me, and slamming me into the wall beside my window... and then screaming at me for a minute or so. I didn't do anything but cover my left ear to prevent as much hearing damage as possible, and eventually he backed off and left the room.
Later on that day, I let my RA know about this after I found out about the hole in the wall (I wasn't planning on saying anything until I noticed that this guy had damaged school property in the middle of his steroid-fueled hissy-fit.) He came in and talked to me about it and it seemed like there weren't going to be any problems.
...until today, when I find that Joe Bouchelle wants me to come to his office for a supposedly-important meeting. I just know this is about Hurricane Stupid. Turns out, I was right; El Douchebag Grande is hanging out in the hallway when I get up there. More than two hours later, I find out what the school's going to do about this whole thing... and apparently the answer is "kick me out of my house and (as far as I can tell) do absolutely nothing to punish the guy who actually attacked somebody AND damaged school property." Of course, they didn't say a word to me about what would happen to this guy, so it's possible he has to pay a fine or worse and they just didn't mention it... but the complete-silence-about-the-other-guy's-punishment thing sure makes it look like they're doing nothing about him (the problem) and instead dumping it all on me (the victim.) Apparently they take my not-serious-at-all exaggerated comments that only someone who wasn't too bright could misinterpret as "threats" more seriously than an actual goddamn assault combined with smashing up a wall in a school-owned building. And apparently I'm on a "zero tolerance" policy as far as anything that could even remotely be mistaken for a threat in the mind of the dumbest dumbass goes... if one idiot claims they felt like I was threatening him (...and it's always a "him" here), I could get kicked out of school entirely. Wow. I really hope Doucheyus Maximus actually got punished for this, because otherwise they really can't even begin to claim they were being fair about this whole situation (they even tried to claim that they were treating me better than other kids in the same situation, which is bullshit because those other kids in the past that they told me about were actually making threats and there were signs that they may have actually meant them, plus I'm pretty sure none of them got attacked by some roid-raging meathead for nothing more than turning the heat down and breaking a cup... so it really isn't the same situation at all.)
But anyway... today hasn't been all that bad considering the massive overreaction of the school people to this situation (or at least to my end of this situation--they seemed to be underreacting pretty seriously to the other guy's end, considering that he actually broke the frickin' law. Assault! Destruction of property! Those are crimes! If I had taken it to the cops instead of an RA, this guy could be waiting for somebody to pay bail for him by now!) I was pretty much given a choice between moving to one of the hellish dorms (not gonna happen, I spent way too much time in Craton already), down to Carriage (a bit far of a walk to class every day, but similar to the mods in regards to crowding, living conditions, etc.), or to someplace off campus (the ghetto red apartments at the bottom of the hill in front of Main Hall were brought up as a possibility.) They decided I'd end up going to Carriage temporarily tonight (which I have done; I moved my stuff down here after the dance club meeting and I'm typing this from my new room in the guys' mod at Carriage right now!) and then have the opportunity to choose exactly where I would move to as a permanent residence sometime later. Right now, Carriage seems pretty nice; my housemates don't seem to be a problem so far (I know one guy here already and have met one of the others before once or twice), the room seems like a slightly bigger version of my room at Mod 2 (with a better selection of drawers for clothes and other stuff so I don't need to pile my books and such up on the top of the desk or stash my video games away in my closet anymore!) and the outside areas are really nice (wood floors, and the dining room is outside of my room instead of the living room, so chances are I will be further removed from the noise of the living room at night--if that's ever a problem--than I was back in my old place.)
I've liked the Carriage mod so far; seems like a nicer version of the library mod I used to live in, for the most part. Finding a place to stash my food may be difficult since the kitchen is pretty full as it is (I may need to keep the non-refrigerated stuff in my room), but since I don't even have my food here just yet (...I didn't have time to grab it before I left with all my other stuff, and the guy helping out with driving my stuff down here had to rush off somewhere else immediately afterward so I couldn't get a ride back to grab it after I got here) that's not too much of a big deal yet. Apparently the heat is usually kept turned up to 74 here, which sounds terrible... but apparently the rooms stay a lot cooler here than in Mod 2 (the heat is set to 72 right now I think and my room actually feels pretty nice, not overheated at all, more like 68-70ish than 72), so even with the heat turned up way higher than I would ever want it to be, the rooms will not get unbearably hot like they always do in the library mods.
I can only see two problems right now: one, there are guys playing video games and being kind of loud in the room right next to mine, and it's 1:30 in the morning... if I had classes before 12:30 tomorrow that would not be tolerated. Apparently it usually quiets down closer to 12:30 or 1:00 here, it's only on Thursday nights that some guys stay up later (due to not having early classes the next day), so it shouldn't be too much of a problem, though. The second problem, of course, is that I'm in Carriage, which is a 10- or 15-minute walk from anything on campus (even longer if you're headed toward Durham or the library or someplace else on that side.) But as long as I don't have early classes next year, it should work out pretty well. If it becomes clear in the next weekend and it will not work out so well, then yeah, I'll be moving off campus (probably to the ghetto red apartments)... but unless something goes wrong, I'll plan on living here at least for the rest of the semester if not for the rest of my time at SVU.
In other news... dance club meetings (three this week, in preparation for the Honor Ball!) went really well this week and I ended up dancing a ton and even learning a few new bits here and there. I'm also slowly getting less-behind on my Printmaking homework; I have half of my 10-print edition done now, so I should be able to get the rest finished tomorrow or Saturday and then hopefully get at least an idea for the next project. Still need to finish my Sculpture project too (all that's left is finishing the two rocks, re-coffee'ing the book to make all of it look consistently old and brown, and maybe doing a little bit of other stuff here and there to add some stuff to it), but there's less of that left than there is of Printmaking so it shouldn't be too hard to get both of those done before my next class.
There's also the Honor Ball (aka best-dance-of-the-year) coming up tomorrow. I didn't even attempt to ask anyone to go with me, but if it's anything like the last one I will be able to find plenty of girls to dance with throughout the night. And since it's all ballroom-type dancing and not random wiggle-dancing, I will actually be able to dance instead of just standing around!
But anyway... some yelling happened, some insults and such were exchanged, and once it was pretty clear that this guy wasn't going to listen to reason I just went off to my room and got ready to go off somewhere else and not bother with his crap anymore. Instead, he comes over and stands in my doorway, apparently punching the walls outside the doorframe in the process (leaving a hole on one side and a dent on the other), and yelling at me from just outside my door. I'm pretty pissed off at this point, and I toss a cup at the wall out of frustration (important note: I did not throw it at the idiot yelling at me from my doorway, because if I had I would've hit him for sure--there was only 8 or 9 feet between us, and cups have some weight to them so they aren't that hard to toss in a straight line.) Apparently he thinks I was aiming for him and (somehow) missed, because the next thing he does is come charging across my room, tackling me, and slamming me into the wall beside my window... and then screaming at me for a minute or so. I didn't do anything but cover my left ear to prevent as much hearing damage as possible, and eventually he backed off and left the room.
Later on that day, I let my RA know about this after I found out about the hole in the wall (I wasn't planning on saying anything until I noticed that this guy had damaged school property in the middle of his steroid-fueled hissy-fit.) He came in and talked to me about it and it seemed like there weren't going to be any problems.
...until today, when I find that Joe Bouchelle wants me to come to his office for a supposedly-important meeting. I just know this is about Hurricane Stupid. Turns out, I was right; El Douchebag Grande is hanging out in the hallway when I get up there. More than two hours later, I find out what the school's going to do about this whole thing... and apparently the answer is "kick me out of my house and (as far as I can tell) do absolutely nothing to punish the guy who actually attacked somebody AND damaged school property." Of course, they didn't say a word to me about what would happen to this guy, so it's possible he has to pay a fine or worse and they just didn't mention it... but the complete-silence-about-the-other-guy's-punishment thing sure makes it look like they're doing nothing about him (the problem) and instead dumping it all on me (the victim.) Apparently they take my not-serious-at-all exaggerated comments that only someone who wasn't too bright could misinterpret as "threats" more seriously than an actual goddamn assault combined with smashing up a wall in a school-owned building. And apparently I'm on a "zero tolerance" policy as far as anything that could even remotely be mistaken for a threat in the mind of the dumbest dumbass goes... if one idiot claims they felt like I was threatening him (...and it's always a "him" here), I could get kicked out of school entirely. Wow. I really hope Doucheyus Maximus actually got punished for this, because otherwise they really can't even begin to claim they were being fair about this whole situation (they even tried to claim that they were treating me better than other kids in the same situation, which is bullshit because those other kids in the past that they told me about were actually making threats and there were signs that they may have actually meant them, plus I'm pretty sure none of them got attacked by some roid-raging meathead for nothing more than turning the heat down and breaking a cup... so it really isn't the same situation at all.)
But anyway... today hasn't been all that bad considering the massive overreaction of the school people to this situation (or at least to my end of this situation--they seemed to be underreacting pretty seriously to the other guy's end, considering that he actually broke the frickin' law. Assault! Destruction of property! Those are crimes! If I had taken it to the cops instead of an RA, this guy could be waiting for somebody to pay bail for him by now!) I was pretty much given a choice between moving to one of the hellish dorms (not gonna happen, I spent way too much time in Craton already), down to Carriage (a bit far of a walk to class every day, but similar to the mods in regards to crowding, living conditions, etc.), or to someplace off campus (the ghetto red apartments at the bottom of the hill in front of Main Hall were brought up as a possibility.) They decided I'd end up going to Carriage temporarily tonight (which I have done; I moved my stuff down here after the dance club meeting and I'm typing this from my new room in the guys' mod at Carriage right now!) and then have the opportunity to choose exactly where I would move to as a permanent residence sometime later. Right now, Carriage seems pretty nice; my housemates don't seem to be a problem so far (I know one guy here already and have met one of the others before once or twice), the room seems like a slightly bigger version of my room at Mod 2 (with a better selection of drawers for clothes and other stuff so I don't need to pile my books and such up on the top of the desk or stash my video games away in my closet anymore!) and the outside areas are really nice (wood floors, and the dining room is outside of my room instead of the living room, so chances are I will be further removed from the noise of the living room at night--if that's ever a problem--than I was back in my old place.)
I've liked the Carriage mod so far; seems like a nicer version of the library mod I used to live in, for the most part. Finding a place to stash my food may be difficult since the kitchen is pretty full as it is (I may need to keep the non-refrigerated stuff in my room), but since I don't even have my food here just yet (...I didn't have time to grab it before I left with all my other stuff, and the guy helping out with driving my stuff down here had to rush off somewhere else immediately afterward so I couldn't get a ride back to grab it after I got here) that's not too much of a big deal yet. Apparently the heat is usually kept turned up to 74 here, which sounds terrible... but apparently the rooms stay a lot cooler here than in Mod 2 (the heat is set to 72 right now I think and my room actually feels pretty nice, not overheated at all, more like 68-70ish than 72), so even with the heat turned up way higher than I would ever want it to be, the rooms will not get unbearably hot like they always do in the library mods.
I can only see two problems right now: one, there are guys playing video games and being kind of loud in the room right next to mine, and it's 1:30 in the morning... if I had classes before 12:30 tomorrow that would not be tolerated. Apparently it usually quiets down closer to 12:30 or 1:00 here, it's only on Thursday nights that some guys stay up later (due to not having early classes the next day), so it shouldn't be too much of a problem, though. The second problem, of course, is that I'm in Carriage, which is a 10- or 15-minute walk from anything on campus (even longer if you're headed toward Durham or the library or someplace else on that side.) But as long as I don't have early classes next year, it should work out pretty well. If it becomes clear in the next weekend and it will not work out so well, then yeah, I'll be moving off campus (probably to the ghetto red apartments)... but unless something goes wrong, I'll plan on living here at least for the rest of the semester if not for the rest of my time at SVU.
In other news... dance club meetings (three this week, in preparation for the Honor Ball!) went really well this week and I ended up dancing a ton and even learning a few new bits here and there. I'm also slowly getting less-behind on my Printmaking homework; I have half of my 10-print edition done now, so I should be able to get the rest finished tomorrow or Saturday and then hopefully get at least an idea for the next project. Still need to finish my Sculpture project too (all that's left is finishing the two rocks, re-coffee'ing the book to make all of it look consistently old and brown, and maybe doing a little bit of other stuff here and there to add some stuff to it), but there's less of that left than there is of Printmaking so it shouldn't be too hard to get both of those done before my next class.
There's also the Honor Ball (aka best-dance-of-the-year) coming up tomorrow. I didn't even attempt to ask anyone to go with me, but if it's anything like the last one I will be able to find plenty of girls to dance with throughout the night. And since it's all ballroom-type dancing and not random wiggle-dancing, I will actually be able to dance instead of just standing around!
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