Woe, angst, and sweat.

But first, an overview of the week.

Wednesday Night

I did go to the Arts and Crafts activity, but it took a while to get there. It started at 10, and we'd already been warned that it wasn't a good idea for girls to walk around alone after dark -- not that I wanted to. My roommate was gone, and her cellphone was too, so I couldn't call Andy and ask him to walk me. I ran down to the first open door I say and asked the girl inside if I could use her phone; she said her friend was picking her up in half an hour and that she could give me a ride to the Valleys. By the time the friend was there and we were halfway to where I needed to be dropped off, I realized something -- my van was on campus. I could have easily driven there and back.

Anyway, I got to the room where they were doing the arts and crafts -- decorating picture frames and making bracelets -- and eventually this guy showed up (I think he was the only boy there all night!) who brought his own stuff to work on, and spent the evening making chainmail. Awesomeness, I think, and I strike up a conversation with him. (Well, I think I did. One of us started talking to the other, I just don't remember who.) Will (Mr. Chainmail), it turns out, is an anime fan (woot!), and has been to Japan (super!woot! And hey, that rhymed!), and is rather easy for me to get along with. Huzzah, new friend, exchange of AIM names and so forth. And then I got to ride home in a golf cart. Splee.

Thursday

Another speaker, more interest sessions (Be Smart, Be Safe: 10 Tips for Safer, Smarter Sex and the one on the International Studies programs -- junior year, I might head to Japan). After the interest sessions I headed over to the amphitheater thing by the Dalton Center, where Nathan and Andy "impressed" us with a scene from MacBeth (I joined in too. I was Witch #3, and a worse one I doubt I've ever seen), and Nathan's sophomore friends showed up and did a very funny skit and told some jokes, and invited us to come to the Whimsicality Club next Friday. (I'll have to go to the next meeting, as I'll be in Jackson then.) And then we went to Draper (the boys-only hall) to see their rooms, because they have kickass rooms, and then they snuck into dinner with us.

Later I went to the International Dance Party/Laser Tag with Andy, Krystel, Nathan, and Nate (Nathan's the one who looks like Tom Green with glasses, Nate's the blond with no glasses. Both are taller than I am. Hell, EVERY guy is taller than I am!). We stayed long enough for one game of laser tag, and then Andy ditched us as we were leaving for one more game. So Nate and Krystel walked me home, since I didn't have my Bronco ID on me and couldn't very well get into Krystel's hall that late at night to play air hockey without ID. And I was pretty happy, since it was 11 and I figured I'd be able to get some sleep and all.

Noooooo. I walk into my dorm room and Mary and five of her friends are watching really bad lesbian porn and making fun of it. And this stuff was set to bad samba music, too. It wasn't all lesbian porn, the next couple segments were straight, but that was just as bad. Apparently they'd been so bored they went downstairs and asked some guy for porn, and he practically gave it to them. I didn't end up in bed until 1:30 or 2:00 in the morning, and we had to get up at 7:00.

Friday

Lost my right contact down the sink. The day's activity was something called "Click Downtown", where we split off into our small groups and walked around downtown K-zoo taking photographs for a scavenger hunt of sorts. Not bad, but it was hot and I got really tired. I skipped the speaker for that day, I think, and spent the afternoon online, but I went ice skating later that night with Andy and that was pretty fun. I didn't even fall down once. I did, however, have to grab onto someone to keep from falling down (he suggested it!), and I think a few times I almost hit people in the face, my arms were pinwheeling around so much. Mary had a friend stay the night, but I fell asleep before either of them went to bed so I can't complain.

Yesterday (Saturday)

Went to the closing ceremony for Fall Welcome Week and got a free T-shirt. Later I asked Will if he wanted to go to Walmart with Andy and Mary and me, and he said yes, and he came over around three to watch anime (I think I got him hooked on Brigadoon. That would be awesome, I think). Mary ended up not going to Walmart, and Andy called and said that Krystel and Nate wanted to go too. So we all went down to dinner together, then piled into my van, where I got lost getting to a gas station, then went to Fifth Third so Andy could get money, and then we got to Walmart, and Will was sort of my pack mule for a little while until we got a cart. (It was just a fan. And I was carrying a pillow, a pencil case, a toothbrush case, a soap dish, and some other stuff.) We got everything we needed, and some things we didn't (like 500 bendy straws!), and after finally getting out of Walmart we went to the corner of Stadium and Howard, where there's a 7-11 and a video store and a party store. I got a membership at the video store, and Will and I spent about half an hour browsing the anime, and then we all went home and went back to Andy's room to watch not-bad porn. Then I took Will home, and I still have to give him back his straws because they got lost in my van.

And, yes, I flirted with Will. I don't think I did too badly... but I'm really bad at this. I don't know.

And today... Today has been one of those days that ends up being a day for crying your eyes out for no reason whatsoever. Nate ended up buying me some McDonald's, and I think I worried him and Krystel. Crying in the line for McDonald's does that, I guess. I don't really want to talk any more about why I cried, because someone might read it and I don't want them to know, but Shadow and Brad and Anga have been great helping me out. Thanks, guys, and I'm sorry for being whiny and weepy and hard to deal with.

I have to go now, because I'm meeting with Andy and then he and I and Krystal and Nate are going to go see The Brothers Grimm.