Fall Break

A lot and nothing all at once happened over fall break. I'm not sure what I write will be able to explain that statement, or if I'll even try to, but I think it sums up the weekend for me.

I was excited for Thursday night. I had planned it in my mind that it would be a hugely fun night where all of the new 1st years that I haven't met yet would hang out and we'd all have fun out on the town. I'd make new friends and have a blast. Well then it rained... and people were out of town... or just somehow boring and couldn't/didn't want to hang out. So it was going to become a real low key event where one new person and one friend were gonna come over and watch a movie. Then my buddy calls me up and he's into a chill night so he heads over. We all sit around for a while before we decide we want to go out... party is back on! Albeit in a much more condensed version than my mind had originally planned. We went to PR and had a lot of fun. Three people split three pitchers... one didn't hold it as well as the other two. I got to know the new girl, who I absolutely LOVE! She's super fun, has a lot of cool interests, and she wants to set me up with her friend. How cool is that! I got the lowdown gossip on all sorts of new people, and I was upset to hear that I had a bad reputation among the first years. Through no fault of my own, other than who I chose to associate with in the beginning of the year. Apparently in order for one girl to paint herself in the best light possible I had to be painted in a very poor light. She gave everyone the wrong idea about me and now I understand why it's been so hard to build relationships with the new group. It's been an up hill battle, but now I can see the tide changing. I've convinced a few that I'm not what they were led to believe and there's a sort of snowball effect of people smiling at me more. It's nice to be liked! That girl has caused me a great deal of strife... and I'd probably still go out with her in a heartbeat. Ugh.

Thursday night was fun... there was a lot of middle school 'I like him' and 'does she like me?' crap that was goin on, but it was fun.

Friday we cruised down to the beach. We didn't get started as early as I had hoped. I slept in a little later than I should have and neither of us were really packed and ready to go with any speed. In hindsight it may have been better not to have gone at all. We get in the car and the closer we get to the beach the more it rains. It rained the entire time there. We got down in the afternoon and layed around the trailer for a while; relaxing with the cable on. Then we hit up Sanitary again... and again it was overpriced (although the fudge sundae was just the right price point), but this time I got to share the history of it. It was a little like what we had talked about in the earlier post. She had never been, so I got to share with her the history and experience of a NC landmark. Kinda cool, even if the shrimp did cost 20 bucks (ridiculous... I had soup). So, it was still raining, so a walk on the beach was out. We went back to the place and watched Survivor Man all night, then went to sleep. The next morning is... that's right rainy! Now, this girl sleeps late! I mean she will sleep all day if you let her. I woke up once about 8:30 and she was out, so I go back to sleep... 10:30, she's out... 11:30 she's rolling over... 12:30 she's awake and we're watching tv in bed. Now, that wouldn't have been a bad thing except that I got a migraine about 1 while we're watching something on the food network. This rainy trip just went from mediocre to bad. I take my drugs (by some happenstance I thought to bring them) and I kick her out of the room so I can try to sleep even more to make it through the headache. I offered her my car to take to the aquarium (that was our planned excursion for the day), but understandable she doesn't want to go alone. So I sleep for the next 3.5 hours while she studies in the living room. I woke up and felt the trip was so bad already that I just wanted to go home. The weather totally did not cooperate, and I feel guilty about the whole thing. I don't think she really wanted to leave, but she didn't say otherwise... so we came back home. The whole trip she was a little disconnected... she'd just stare out the window, even if there wasn't anything to look at. It's a common enough girl trick. Avoid eye contact and conversation at all cost... I won't tell him I'm upset but I'll make this car ride a real pain in the ass... I deserved it though I'm sure.

We make it back to Raleigh and the weathers perfect... warm sunny days.

Sunday I drove to Greensboro for a 6 hour practice session. It was good. We did a lot, but it doesn't feel like we got much done. I don't know... tough to explain. Oh well. Sunday'll get short changed. I feel like I've written a book so far... so I'm done. Sunday was good... long practice in Greensboro... came home and played Lego Star Wars. Fun.