My Twenty-second Post

So it's been a while. I have a million things I've been meaning to blog about, but I never actually gotten around to it. This is my attempt to catch up with my life.

So the semester is officially over. The night before H went back home for the summer, we went out (with C and another kid who had a car) and had some fun. IHOP was inevitably involved, as was an impromptu stop at Pudding on the Rice, were we got free rice pudding. I never figured out exactly why it was free-- I think it was some sort of grand opening promotion-- but what do I care? It was FREE! Yay!

[Heh-- my roommate just walked in and became inexplicably excited when she saw my cute and newly purchased underwear. That's why roommates are so great. They get outwardly excited about things that I'm secretly ecstatic about.]

Then I spent a crazy day moving out of one apartment, moving into another, and working an incredibly long 8 hours. I still haven't really unpacked. Good times: yes, yes.

My mom was actually in town to help me move/to visit with her family. It was good to see my mom. I'm actually secretly flying home this Saturday for my Mom's birthday (which happens to fall on Mother's Day this year). Nobody knows I'm coming except my sister who is picking me up from the airport. I'm so excited. You have no idea. I'll be at home for 10 glorious days. Yay!

I've been working like crazy the last couple of days. Seriously. Like 14 hour days. My roommates started to think I was just a figment of their imaginations. But the hours are good, especially since I'm not going to get anything in my next paycheck since I'll be out of town for a nice chunk of the pay period. So work is good, but it is exhausting as well. Thank goodness this week is going to be slower.

So there is a pool at my new apartment complex. It's very nice. In fact, it's gorgeous. I'm in love with it. I've only used it once so far, but I have a feeling we're going to become best friends this summer. There are a couple things about it that bother me, though. The first is that it is right outside my window, so I hear everything that goes on down there. Like yesterday when it was just one of my neighbors and her boyfriend in the pool. All I could hear for about an hour was splashing and giggling. High pitched, squealy giggling. FOR AN ENTIRE HOUR. The second thing that bugs me about the pool is that it is supposed to be for tenants... but apparently the definition of "tenant" has been expanded to include anyone and everyone who has any sort of connection to the managers. Seriously, the other day there was a bunch of little kids (like 8-14 years old) just hanging out there because their parents knew the mangers. I really should just get over it, but I’ll probably just gripe about it all summer instead.

I like my new ward. Everyone is very close already, and I felt a bit like an outsider at first, but now I'm excited to get to know everyone. The other night a group of guys invited us over to watch Run Away Jury at their apartment. I went even though it was probably a bad idea-- I had to work at 4:30 the next morning. A funny thing happened when we were leaving to go to see the movie. I walked out of the door with C coming behind me. I was almost to the stairs when she suddenly screamed. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something big flying above my head, so I crouched down and did what came naturally-- I panicked. When I finally got the courage to look up, there was a large black bug about the size of a child's fist, zipping around just above my head. This caused me to panic all over again and I ended up sitting on my butt on the ground helplessly looking up at IT. C dashed back to our door, and I squealed that she couldn't just abandon me outside with IT. She valiantly held the door open while I crawled back inside. We then proceeded to watch IT through a crack for the next five minutes until it casually flew around the corner. That's when we made our escape by dashing to the stairs and running all the way to our destination. In retrospect, I think it was fairly amusing. I mean, we were held captive by a harmless (albeit seemingly-menacing) bug.

The movie night was way fun, but on the way home I got really freaked out by this guy who was walking near us. He was coming up on us from behind, and he was walking really quickly. I got incredibly scared and I kept craning my neck around to keep an eye on him. It was painfully obvious that I was watching him, and after a few minutes has mumble something like "Guess I'm making you nervous, huh?" After that he picked up his pace and took off. CREEPY!!! I don't know when I've been more afraid of another human being. I kept expecting him to pull out a gun or something. I'm really paranoid now that I live off-campus.

Anyway. I have a new calling now. I'm now the ward historian. From what I can tell, that means that I need to collect pictures throughout the summer to make a ward video/slideshow at the end. Greeeeat. Just what I need. A calling that forces me to attend activities, get to know people, and take random pictures of them. I don't even know how I'm going to out everything together. The best I'll be able to do is a lame PowerPoint presentation. Maybe I'll find someone with some sort of technological background to help me. Hopefully.

So that’s my life as of now. Hopefully I’ll update a little more often in the coming months. Then I can avoid these marathon posts that no one wants to read anyway.