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Day 133: The real folk blues...
Apr. 6th, 2005 11:17 pmNot that I'm blue. Just a little harried. Wow, the end of the semester is coming so quickly. Maybe I should start studying for criminal justice or doing something productive. I don't think it was the time change last weekend, but it seems that I'm needing sleep more and more. If I don't get to crash midway through the day I'm just not a happy camper. I'm staying on top of things but I'm not doing all the extra things I'm supposed to. It's just difficult working for that many hours in a row even though it has to be done. Where did my work ethic go? Hmmm...
It's the women's conference this week or something. National women's month. Or was that last month? I thought it was last month until today when BenTen and I were eating lunch in the SSC and there were a bunch of musicians and singers serenading us - all female. It was cool, to say the least, and the troop of bassoons was by far the coolest. I didn't realize they sound so mellow, as instruments.
Mom called last night, and it was good to hear her voice because I had been contemplating calling her all day. My life is pretty boring right now (despite this strange lack of will to work and the irritatingly persistent stomach discomfort) but it was good to talk anyway. I'd been thinking of calling her all day, too.
Soong has been coming around the last few nights. Not a bad guy. Seeing how he lives with a bunch of jocks I didn't peg him for the kind of guy who loves musicals, so we listened to some avenue q. He also likes Monk, so we talked a bit about our favorite TV shows and anime and random stuff like that. I wish American boys were that nice and funny. His English really isn't all that bad, but sometimes there are things that I totally don't understand so I have to ask him to repeat them. Still doesn't help that he can't say the letter 'f'. Oh well. Del thought for a moment that he might have a crush on me, but I'm rather inclined to think that he's out to set me up with one of his Korean friends before he leaves. I might have believed he had a crush on me until he told me about his girlfriend. He broke up with her before he came here, and while he says they parted on good terms he seemed sad when he told me how she sent him a picture of herself, her new husband and their new baby. He seemed rather surprised about the new baby. Given how long it takes a baby to arrive it's not biologically impossible, but I decided not to get into the math of the matter.
What's great, though, is the fact that Del is needle-free for the rest of the week, and seems well on her way to healing from the blood poisoning. I was so worried about her on Saturday night. No one should have to go through that. As for BenTen, the crazy girl really needs to let us look out for her more. Aya-chan was right about nagging her into getting an elastoplast after she busted herself. And I'm glad I have a supply as well. Del is right about those two needing a first aid kit for their apartment this summer. BenTen recommends medical gauze above and beyond the standard cache of elastoplasts and neosporin. I agree. Aya-chan probably will, too. I'm a little nervous about this whole stomach thing still, and I don't think it's stress, because this is way too nauseated to be the stomach stress I remember. I had a pill with the shepherd's pie tonight because the cooks did remember to put cheese on it. (Is shepherd's pie not an American dish, or not a Utah dish? Because too many kids look at me funny when I talk about it. Hmmm.) But I have a stash of pills with me at all times now. Heh heh.
Wow...it still feels early. Ugh. I hate trooping up the hill with the sun in my eyes like that. Oh well. Do what you gotta do.
It's the women's conference this week or something. National women's month. Or was that last month? I thought it was last month until today when BenTen and I were eating lunch in the SSC and there were a bunch of musicians and singers serenading us - all female. It was cool, to say the least, and the troop of bassoons was by far the coolest. I didn't realize they sound so mellow, as instruments.
Mom called last night, and it was good to hear her voice because I had been contemplating calling her all day. My life is pretty boring right now (despite this strange lack of will to work and the irritatingly persistent stomach discomfort) but it was good to talk anyway. I'd been thinking of calling her all day, too.
Soong has been coming around the last few nights. Not a bad guy. Seeing how he lives with a bunch of jocks I didn't peg him for the kind of guy who loves musicals, so we listened to some avenue q. He also likes Monk, so we talked a bit about our favorite TV shows and anime and random stuff like that. I wish American boys were that nice and funny. His English really isn't all that bad, but sometimes there are things that I totally don't understand so I have to ask him to repeat them. Still doesn't help that he can't say the letter 'f'. Oh well. Del thought for a moment that he might have a crush on me, but I'm rather inclined to think that he's out to set me up with one of his Korean friends before he leaves. I might have believed he had a crush on me until he told me about his girlfriend. He broke up with her before he came here, and while he says they parted on good terms he seemed sad when he told me how she sent him a picture of herself, her new husband and their new baby. He seemed rather surprised about the new baby. Given how long it takes a baby to arrive it's not biologically impossible, but I decided not to get into the math of the matter.
What's great, though, is the fact that Del is needle-free for the rest of the week, and seems well on her way to healing from the blood poisoning. I was so worried about her on Saturday night. No one should have to go through that. As for BenTen, the crazy girl really needs to let us look out for her more. Aya-chan was right about nagging her into getting an elastoplast after she busted herself. And I'm glad I have a supply as well. Del is right about those two needing a first aid kit for their apartment this summer. BenTen recommends medical gauze above and beyond the standard cache of elastoplasts and neosporin. I agree. Aya-chan probably will, too. I'm a little nervous about this whole stomach thing still, and I don't think it's stress, because this is way too nauseated to be the stomach stress I remember. I had a pill with the shepherd's pie tonight because the cooks did remember to put cheese on it. (Is shepherd's pie not an American dish, or not a Utah dish? Because too many kids look at me funny when I talk about it. Hmmm.) But I have a stash of pills with me at all times now. Heh heh.
Wow...it still feels early. Ugh. I hate trooping up the hill with the sun in my eyes like that. Oh well. Do what you gotta do.
