Song Playing: Superchic[k] – Wonder
Finally, Fall Break.
This week was a demonic incarceration of the flames of hell, released within the minds of my professors who believe they only class I have is with them.
Blasted Graphics class. I was going to go to work up in the Graphics Lab today, and discovered Prof. Hettinga had only put the names down of the students she likes to let into the lab this weekend. Oh well. I’m tired of dealing with it, I’m not making graphics for her, I’m making it for myself.
Last weekend.
Oie, last weekend. It’s been a while since I’ve written my journal.
Last weekend was awesome. I spent the entire weekend at a retreat with ISA. A lot of people went. I ran around all over the place, and spent the time playing volleyball, Frisbee, playing piano… running around like mad. We stayed at a camp about 15 minutes away from the college. The weather was fantastic, it was really windy, with gigantic clouds the size of city blocks thundering overhead. The weather was cool, but the sun was bright and made things pretty toasty if you stayed out of the wind. I climbed over the fence and went swimming in the pool. It was pretty chilly, but I got used to it pretty quick, and just dove over and over again. It was exactly like I used to swim back home. It was great.
Afterwards I climbed up on the roof of the porch off the building we were staying at and sunbathed. I had invited Nina along, and she climbed up and lay up there with me. We just napped for a while, until it got too hot, then went inside and napped the rest of the day away.
In the evenings, we played Moment. The final copy is all printed out, and works exactly as I hoped it would. Nina and I played alone the first night, staying up ‘till 3 just talking, and then played again the next night, that time with a bigger crowd. The discussions got very deep. Nina answered very tactfully. The people who played the next night were Chelsea, Jessie Masai, Bret & Shawn Davis, a new girl who’s a transfer student, Suje, Nina, Luke & Luke’s girlfriend. Susie and Chelsea also answered very very well, as did Jessie. Bret and Luke proved they really couldn’t get a hang of the game, and Shawn and the new transfer student started out silly and then improved. Valerie Ong also joined later on. She started out very very silly, but then got into it later on. Suje made the comment later that she wanted to get to know me better. I’m not quite sure what to make of that yet.
Nina and I got to talk a bit more, and I noticed people picking up on it. Most people were too busy, but I noticed other people seeing the closeness and drawing conclusions. I didn’t care too much, but I noticed.
It stormed during the middle of the latter game, and because the barn we slept in had a tin roof, everyone jumped up to see. I pulled open the garage door and we all watched it a bit. All of a sudden, Nina bolts out the door, flying out into the grass, dancing all over the place. I took one look, took of my glasses, and bolted out after her. We danced in the rain for a while. 🙂 Suje came out and joined us later. We danced out there until we got cold, then ran back inside and bundled up in blankets and continued our game. 🙂
I got to talk with Kevin, the speaker. He used to go to Messiah and married a girl from the Dominican Republic, if I remember right. He now works for the college. He brought up some very interesting subjects, including working on being more aware of where you are for the time being, and also about talking with professors more and asking them personal questions. I talked to him a lot, interestingly enough starting out with a conversation about his jealously with my voice! (I can sing very very deeply)
Skip to this weekend (suffice to say I worked myself silly after that).
Thursday Pagoda had it’s first official show. I invited Nina long, and Phil Bert and Min also came along. Once we got their, however, we all realized that the bar wouldn’t allow them inside. I felt like a complete fool. Nina doesn’t turn 21 until October 15, and somehow I was so excited it completely slipped my mind. The bouncer believed my ID (of course), but Nina, Min & Phil were forced to go to an Ice Cream shop. I felt like a crumb. Nina was a good sport about it, and took it well, but I felt so stupid. We actually played well. There was no one there, it was just some deserted bar out in the middle of nowhere. Reminded me too much of places from home, I think. Way too much. I did well, though, and we had a good effect on the house band (a band named Hydrate) and on the mixer guy named Digital Dave. 🙂 The lead singer to Hydrate came up to us afterwards and gave us a free copy of their pro-made CD. We chatted with him a bit and he referred us to a place that we might play at.
Lox let me drive the Trakker, and Nina rode with me. We had a good talk on the way home, especially about how I view things, things like seeing love, and seeing the world as beautiful. She thought about it a lot, and I think is opening up to me some more.
Fred, David & Luke have come up to me on separate occasions, asking me about Nina. I told them each time I didn’t think anything could happen, and I still don’t. We are heading two different ways. It’s not likely. I’m going to Australia eventually, and she’s going to NYC. Plus, I still feel I don’t know enough about her. Though there may be serendipitous stuff going on some of the time, I’m not sure about everything. I want to do what God wants me to do, and I feel like if God wants me to be with anyone, He’ll work it out.
I talked to Ramong last night. I knew there was something between him and Lalrem, and that then it had died. I knew. I had felt it when he had gotten here. I knew Lalrem had had a boyfriend back home, but I didn’t know it was him. It’s so weird when I sense things like that.
In any case, I also had detected weird stuff going on between her and Joseph too. Joseph has been hanging out with Melissa a WHOLE lot, much to the anger of his ex Elizabeth. He tries to hide it, but it got so apparent, that other people started picking up on it too. However, whenever he’s not with Melissa, it seems he has some sort of connection with Lalrem. He’s not the best guy for her, and so I talked to Ramong about it. He opened up the entire story to me. I could tell he’d been pretty down lately, and finally had the chance to talk. He had been dating Lalrem for the past 4 years, and she was the main reason he had come to college. But, two days after he got here, they broke up. They’re still friends, but he hurts so bad. I let him talk. She said she had changed, which is why she had broken up with him. They’re still friends, but it seems… I’m not sure yet. He asked me to look out for her, he still cares about her so much. I told him I would.
I went over to Grace’s room last night, her and Suje were there, and we just hung out for a while. I fell asleep there, and they covered me in a blanket and gave me a teddy bear. Silly girls. 🙂 I think Grace has a boyfriend back home, I’m starting to get a certain idea.
Thanks for all your comments on the logos, I put them up so my client could look at them but it was good to get some feedback too. I will be mostly putting up utilitarian stuff up, for work or school. I haven’t had much time for leisure.