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.
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