Surprising Thursday

I encountered a few surprises on Thursday. Overall a very fun day.

First, I'd never gotten together with my partner for my English presentation that was due because he wouldn't return my e-mails and wasn't home. So I planned to do the whole thing myself. But then I saw him in my first class and we talked and then afterward we got together and he added some stuff, so my presentation went better than expected. It was very surprising that my laptop's battery lived long enough to play the whole power point.

Second, I got an e-mail in the morning from my Christian History professor that said, "Alonzo is sick today. There will be no class. Sorry for any inconveniences this causes." Sweet. One less class to go to. Even though that class is the gloriousness of my Tuesdays and Thursdays, I was kind of glad to go home early anyway.

Third, we had planned an "underground FHE" temple trip. But when we got there it was going to be like 2 and a half hours if we were lucky because there were so many people there, so we decided to do it sometime next week. Probably every Monday morning at 6am. Woo! lol So on the short drive home, Clarissa mentioned Olive Garden, and we decided to go out to eat there. Steff said it was kind of a double date, but it was us 3 girls and only 2 of the guys, so someone was extra. Clarissa and I asked how we were supposed to decide who the extra one was. LOL! So we decidedly made it NOT a double date. But, oh my gosh, the food was sooo good and conversation was so fun.

This past week or so, I've been feeling more like myself. I know it has to do with having more friends and spending time with them and a huge part of it is laughing. I looove to laugh, and I've kinda been withdrawn since I came out to school. But now that I have real friends, I feel like I can be myself around them more, and I laugh so much and just kind of let go. It's a nice feeling. I've been spending time with the girls in the apartment across from us. I usually go over and we just sit and do homework and play loud music and talk and watch movies. I love it, and them. We laugh so much there. And last night with the guys was so fun. We were all just telling the funniest stories, and I was cracking up the whole night. Love it.

On a different note, remember Jeff in my FHE group? (If not see pictures below from previous FHEs) Well, he's been having the worst week of his life. My "mom" calling kicked in and I started chatting with him, seeing what's up. I guess he got dumped by his girlfriend Wednesday night. The ol' "just friends" trick. He's pretty deep in depression. I think it's a lot of other stuff on top of that, too, this was just the tipping point. So I told him how neat I think he is, and talked about how I've felt exactly like he does a lot, especially recently (except that it had nothing to do with getting dumped). And eventually he got distracted and was showing me funny stuff from these sites that I guess help him to cheer up. I could see the normal Jeff again. And he makes me laugh so hard, which helps me feel normal myself.

I have slacked so much this week. I've been learning how to be myself again so much that I've had too much fun and put off lots of stuff. This is going to be a fun weekend full of doing things on my continually-building to-do list.

Love and miss you all!