One of them being me consistently forgetting to update this thing. XD
Last weekend on the other hand was surprisingly good. Spent most of Saturday in town for Buena Vista's "Mountain Days," which is basically the BV equivalent of the Fall Festival in Clifton Forge back home. Got a jar of this really good three-onion spice mix, some Cajun peanuts, and a German duck (with Oktoberfest-type outfit and beer mug) while I was down there, and also got to try free samples of two kinds of fudge and three kinds of honey. Also saw honey bees for the first time in forever; apparently the honey jars attracted every bee from nearby, and they were buzzing around that booth all day trying to get into the ones that had been opened (...and occasionally doing weird things, like following me and Ruth around for 10-15 minutes straight or landing on my chin and crawling up over my lips before flying off.) Bumped into a bunch of people I know, talked, goofed off, ate, saw all kinds of neat stuff at the various booths and such down there... it was a good day.
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| Honeybees! And not ones that are slowly dying of fungus, either! |
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| Ruth looking at some artwork and deciding which one to buy. |
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| BIBLE DUCKS! There were so many different ducks at this one tent... |
Last Sunday even turned out good, surprisingly enough. I walked all the way from here to the Food Lion out on the edges of Buena Vista city limits (or maybe a little bit past them?) and then came back with a pack of new batteries, a new water bottle, and a can of Lysol to spray down my stinky couch with and possibly de-stinkify it a bit.
The week itself... eh. It was just weird. There were definitely some good parts (got to know a few people better, for example), but there were also bad parts and just-plain-strange parts mixed in there, more strange parts than usual. Several days this week I forgot what day it was for almost half of the day; Wednesday I thought it was Monday for most of the day, and Friday I even thought it was Monday up until a certain point... even though I should've known otherwise since my schedule's different on Fridays. About mid-week, I ended up getting put into one of the most awkward and uncomfortable situations that I've ever been in; one of my friends came up to me and tried to convince me to ask one of her friends to go to the Homecoming dance with me. Problem: I don't actually know this other girl. Like, at all. We may have met once or so, because apparently she knew who I was (even though I had absolutely no idea who she was), but... I seriously can't ask a near-total-stranger to go to a dance with me. Especially not with less than a week's notice--if I had been told this two weeks ago, then maybe I'd have time to get to know her a little and be at least slightly more okay with the whole idea... but less than three days? No way.
Plus... I don't really even want to ask people I actually know and like to go to dances with me. Taking a date to a dance is just a weird situation for me because if I go with someone, I'm going to feel like I'm bringing her down the whole time due to my inability to ever do any of the fast "random wiggle dancing" type stuff (and it's especially bad if I don't even know whether she'd be interested in that anyway; worst case scenario here is if she's the type to try and drag me out there against my will and ruin my night just because she wants to do it. And since I don't know her, of course I don't know if she would be or not!) I'd actually be more okay with going on a "normal" date with a near-total-stranger than I would be with going to a dance with one, because at least on a regular date (as in, to someplace where you're not constantly surrounded by loud blasting noise that makes it difficult to talk) you can at least get to know the other person better if you don't really know them already. But anyway... this was a really bad position for me to be in, because first of all asking someone to go to something with me is a really hard thing for me even if it's someone I already know (with a stranger it would probably be impossible, and probably wouldn't work very well even if I did manage to do it), and second of all not doing it would make me feel pretty crappy about things because apparently this other girl wasn't going to go to the dance at all if nobody asked her. Supposedly someone else might have asked her, from what I remember someone saying the other day, but still... that is not a good position to put someone (especially me) into, and I'm a little annoyed at the friend who did this because of that.
But anyway... the week got better (a lot better) after that whole situation disappeared. Yesterday I went down to the SVU fields for the homecoming bonfire, which actually turned out pretty well thanks to the fact that there were a bunch of friends there for me to talk to and goof off with. (There was also hot chocolate, which was good.)
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| Early on, when most of the total strangers hadn't shown up. XD |
Earlier today, I headed out to the fields again, this time for the homecoming barbecue (which was pretty disappointing due to its lack of edible food--and worse, the food was both inedible and cost $6.00... yeah, $6.00 for what was essentially cafeteria food. Blech!) Thankfully, it wasn't just the (inedible) food; there was other stuff going on down there and a decent bunch of people I knew and stuff to do. There were bags of popcorn and Oreo-like cookie/cracker things around for free, so I at least had something to eat in place of a real lunch.
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| There were also balloon critters being made, such as my shoulder-frog here. XD |
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