Yep... as of right now (which is... something like two-thirds of the way through the month), I have not had a single bad day in all of March. That hasn't happened... well, basically ever--I've had good months/semesters/years before, sure, but they usually had some bad days scattered among them too. But nope... March 2014 has just been an abnormally good month the whole way through. I haven't even really had a "starts off bad but gets better" day, or even a "gets bad for a while, but before and after the bad part were good" day (there was one a while ago that sorta came close for a few seconds, but... eh, not quite enough to drop me back down into feeling crappy again. It was more of a "mildly annoyed for a little while" kind of day even at its worst moments, and I recovered pretty quick, no sitting at home dying of boredom/loneliness or anything.) Let's hope that keeps up for the rest of March and hopefully into other months, too.
But yeah... so far, still trying to find a job. Have sent in another (the 11th) job application and have signed up for this agency that tries to find jobs for people in the area. Still selling old games and such on eBay in an attempt to make some extra money until the whole job thing happens (I suspect that the Super Nintendo games are going to sell pretty well--looking at previous eBay sales from other people, I see just the cartridges alone for some games selling for $20-$30 pretty frequently, so I suspect having the boxes still intact for mine will help them get even higher than that. I have two of them up there for sale now, one of which already has been bid on... may add more games later.) Still working on that painting I've been working on for weeks, but it is almost done at this point--I just need to go back to it for a bit and finish up a small section of the background before it'll be completely done. I'm thinking of making a sort of vaguely grassy background behind where Joguo and Arkusazzo are, since originally I planned on making their background area resemble the hill where Joguo's house is located. That will probably extend back behind the Swarm also, since most of them are based out of a nearby area to where Joguo lives, even though there's no real connection between them. I may just end up leaving Bunprego's area blank white, since he's close to where Damuru-J (with her vaguely blue-esque off-white cloudy mist stuff surrounding her) is located. Plus he tends to get whites and very pale yellows associated with him most of the time, and the Okédoké team already has a yellowish background, so white is pretty much the only thing that would make sense for him that isn't already taken. I've finished a drawing I've been working on for a while lately, just need to get it scanned in sometime soon (hopefully I can find a time when Ruth isn't too busy and borrow her scanner, since my dad's scanner back home no longer works... or at least, the computer doesn't recognize it, so the USB port connecting them may be busted.) Also making progress on reading the first not-required-for-class book I've ever checked out of the SVU library, though probably not as quickly as I could (I tend to not spend much time just sitting around by myself, so reading doesn't happen as often as it probably should.)
Spring break actually went pretty well for me this year. I bumped into a bunch of friends (some were indeed gone, but it seemed like a lot of the friends I've known for a while--and a few more recent ones--were still here after all, so it wasn't as abandoned around here as I thought it might be) and I don't think I really had any days where I was just bored to death with nothing to do--just a whole lot of days where I ended up hanging around with a few friends for a pretty long time, and several where even when I got home I wasn't quite "alone" because I ended up talking to friends online some, too. Ended up getting to know one friend that I've sorta-kinda-known for a while a lot better than I did before, and it basically turned out that the more I found out about her, the more interesting she seemed and the more I wanted to know. Eventually ended up trying to ask her on a date, but that didn't quite work out. It was kind of odd, though--she technically didn't say no, I guess... but she did come out and say that she didn't think there were any feelings there between us (specifically on her end), and then we just ended up talking for another 10-15 minutes or so and I basically forgot to even bring up if a date would be possible or not. It actually never got really awkward or anything, it was more like just... "oh, you're not interested in that way, okay, let's keep talking as if nothing happened." I'm glad it turned out that way, though--asking someone on a date is seriously hard for me, and I hate when it makes things really awkward (like the one time I asked someone to the homecoming dance and then she basically started avoiding me... yeah, really hope it doesn't happen like that again.) I really appreciated how honest she was about it, too--if someone's going to basically reject me, "calmly tell me exactly how she feels about the situation without freaking out or making it super awkward, then go back to normal conversation afterward" is pretty much the absolute best way to do it. I mean, I'd rather just get a "yes" of course, but if I'm going to get a "no" it would be great to get that kind of "no," the kind that somehow manages to make me still feel pretty good about asking even if I didn't get a "yes" (rather than sort of breaking down over it or just being kinda disappointed.) I think just continuing on talking afterward like nothing weird had happened at all helped a lot.
I'm still unsure if I was even really interested in her that way (the "date" I had in mind would've probably been more of a "let's get to know each other better" sort of thing, sort of like the last one I actually went on was) in the first place, but I suspect I might've eventually ended up heading in that direction. It's hard to say, I can never really see that sort of thing coming very far ahead of time. It's usually like "oh hey, a new friend, she seems like an interesting person" at first and then only drifts into "holy crap I really like this person" months later (or a month later, in some cases, but it usually takes a lot longer than that)... sometimes sort of gradually building toward that in a way I can pick up on (where at first it's "hey, I might kinda like her" before reaching the "holy crap" phase), other times just coming out of nowhere and hitting me all at once.
Speaking of crushes coming out of nowhere and hitting me all at once, I actually got to talk to a friend I hadn't really seen much in a while today. Went down and got some pizza from Domino's using this coupon that one of SVU's executive council candidates randomly gave me, then just talked and goofed off for a while. Funnily enough, a random stranger in Domino's ended up joining in on the conversation and many fangirl squeal noises were made between the two of them (since it turns out they were both really into a lot of the same things.) She also shared a bit of her cheesy bread, which is always nice. Apparently this girl we both met in there was still in high school, which was kind of a surprise--it was rare enough to bump into a high-school-age person that I could actually stand talking to even when I was still in high school! It turned out to be a pretty good trip/meal... lots of talking and general goofiness, and several new additions to the random quote list (including one from one of the guys working at Domino's, telling us to take our goofing off outside. XD) But anyway, later on the topic of me seriously liking her earlier this semester actually came up... and apparently she already knew about it. To the point where I didn't even manage to get my full bringing-it-up sentence out before she said so. Apparently she had sort of known/suspected this before I even did (I didn't really become aware that I liked her in that way until... right around the end of January, maybe the very beginning of February), which was kind of odd. Mentioning it didn't seem to make things too awkward though (...it probably helps that I've pretty much lost interest and that she has a boyfriend now, so there's no chance at all of anything actually happening XD), and apparently she would've had a problem with the age gap anyway so it's probably a good thing that I didn't end up bringing it up with her before this point after all. But still, it's kind of nice to actually be able to answer one of my lingering "what if?" questions for once, rather than just kind of letting them drop off into who-knows-where after months or years of never even mentioning that they were ever a thing in the first place. I also may end up getting to see Frozen at some point, since apparently her boyfriend has it, so if that ends up happening I'll finally get what the heck people are talking about when they repeatedly make tons of references to that movie. XD
...and now I'm talking about stuff out of order, heh... weekend first and then the week. Anyway--the past week or so has been pretty good. Last weekend I got to see a few friends from way back in my first semester/year here who I hadn't seen much (or at all) in a while. Ended up going to one of the SVU lacrosse games randomly, mostly just sitting around and talking during it rather than paying too much attention to the actual game (though I was sorta kinda able to follow what was going on during the times I did pay attention.) Ended up getting a bit of a sunburn, but not bad enough that it went beyond the "skin gets red and maybe a little itchy" stage. We left halfway through and then just walked around talking about all kinds of random stuff for a while. It turns out that one of them (who was the girl whose lost iPod I found randomly lying in the fields a while back) isn't even going here anymore (she was visiting during this past week), and the other is about to go on a mission at the end of this semester. It's kind of weird how so many people I know are going off away from school after this semester's over, between the graduating people and the people leaving on missions... it doesn't seem like there's as many of them as last year of course, but then again last year was the year when most of the new friends I'd made that year suddenly vanished to go on missions (and some graduated, too) by the time it was over.
Speaking of seeing old friends, actually ended up getting a ride to Wal-Mart from a friend I met way back in community college. There aren't many from back then that I'm really still in touch with... partly because a lot of people I never really got to know that well in the first place, partly because I've been mostly horrible at actually keeping up over Facebook. But yeah, that turned out pretty well. It's nice to have someone to talk to during those trips to the store, makes them a lot less boring than they usually are. Also somehow managed to get a ton of food without making myself go completely broke--I now have enough pancake mix to last me for probably another month or so, and also a bunch of other stuff that I hadn't really gotten before (or hadn't gotten very often.)
This week has also involved a lot of random concerts/recitals. Two people's junior/senior recitals in a row, actually, which I went to (and took tons of pictures during)... and then the "SVU Idol" thing afterward, where a bunch of people (including a couple of friends *waves to Maddie and Xandra, since I know you guys actually read this thing now* and a whole bunch of strangers and near-strangers) got up on stage and sang/played instruments/both. There's another concert of some sort at school tonight at 8:00, but I'm unsure if I'm going to make an attempt to go to that one since I know basically nothing about it and don't know if any of my friends are even going (or if it's even a free thing, for that matter. I can't really be paying for these sorts of things until I end up getting a job or another extra stash of money from home.)
And, though this isn't entirely a "this week" thing, I've made a new friend lately that I've never actually met in-person. That's kind of a new thing for me (usually, people I only communicate with online never really leave "uh, that's just some random person from the Internet" status and actually get to the point where I consider them friends), but I figure if I get along with someone really well it doesn't really matter where/how we "met" to begin with. Kind of an interesting situation--we talked a bit on OKCupid first (that'd be the online dating site I'm signed up with... I think I've made a few vague mentions of being on one of those before on this blog, but I don't think I'd specified which one until now) and actually had an OKCupid message conversation that felt like a conversation, not just... some random person from the Internet answering my questions, and me struggling to come up with something else to say afterward. To make it even better, she sent me the first message, which doesn't happen often (and when it does, it's usually an obvious spambot, someone who didn't read my profile at all, or someone who's at least mildly creepy; there have been very few exceptions.) We're actually friends on Facebook now, which up to this point has been a thing reserved for people I've known in real life (and even then, I'll only add people I've talked to several times and can remember their name/face without any trouble, at the very least... not just "any random person who bumped into me at least once" like some people apparently do.) But yeah... actually feeling like you're talking to an actual person about stuff even without the help of things like facial expressions, tone of voice, and so on is not something that happens to me very often (I think there's only been two, maybe three times where I've really felt like I was able to get to know someone entirely through text-only communication... and in one of those cases it was someone I had met before, but just hadn't gotten to know very well), so I think I can make an exception to the "only people I've actually met" rule in this case! XD
Also found out recently that apparently they're
giving away free downloads of Pokémon X and Y this month to anyone who
registers their 3DS pin number and the number of one game from a certain
list (which included Super Mario 3D Land, a game I actually have.) I
wasn't really planning on getting either of them anymore, but hey, if
they're giving them away for free... then I think I might actually look
into that. I suspect I'd have to go back home and get the box my 3DS
came in to do it, though (since the card with the pin number should
still be in there.) I guess it's a good thing I never go registering my
stuff on Nintendo's site right away, because if I had done so way back
when I got the thing I wouldn't be able to get a free game unless I
randomly bought another 3DS (which is... not going to happen anytime soon, let alone within this month!)
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