*sniff* Damn romantic comedies...always get me right here. And, I don't think it's fair that they get to talk about fairytale/movie romances in movies themselves. "The Wedding Planner" is a good film, but I can't help but feel bad for Massimo.

Anyway, seems I fibbed a bit on the "later tonight" thing in the last entry. And, I didn't even give you guys an outlet to yell at me. =)

Well, I'll continue and update a bit for the past couple of days.

I went home between the semesters last week. Got a chance to visit some people I hadn't seen in a while. David W was back from Atlanta. David A was around. And, David L and most of the others that went to Slovakia over the past semester were back. Hung out with various groups during the first weekend. Turns out the Slovakia crew decided to grow their hair out. Alex looks like some sort of wooly woodsman...who can apparently bowl quite well. We took him bowling, he kept going off about how he hadn't bowled in a while, and proceeded to bowl 5 strikes in 6 frames for a 168. Now, that basically tied my second highest game ever after being in a league this past semester. And, he only bowled that one game. Anyway, also saw David L who looks either like 70's Jesus with the long flip hair parted in the middle and a beard.

Fun didn't get to last too long though. I got my wisdom teeth out last Tuesday. Went in during the morning, got knocked out, and woke up in the recovery room slightly groggy. My mom took me home. Got kind of car sick on the way, but managed to avoid an ordeal. Stayed up for a while changing out the gauze until I fell asleep and napped for a while. That night, I was up and around.

First venture out of the house was Thursday afternoon when I got invited to go see the new "Star Wars". Interesting film. Pretty action-packed I guess. Better than average. Quite good even. Still, I felt more attachment to the characters in "Spider-Man". That might be responsible for my having seen the movie four times already. Think that's a personal record for seeing a film in theaters. But, to be fair, I was invited every time...so I'm not that huge of a freak...really...I promise. Scotty invited me to see it the night it premiered, Brice wanted to see it the next day, Kevin and D wanted to see it later that week, and I'll relate the final time in a brief story.

Friday rolled around last week. Like I said, the wisdom teeth weren't really hurting me, so I was up and around. I watched a couple of movies ("Not Another Teen Movie" has a few laughs, but it's mostly sexual and scatalogical humor, lacks the originality I've seen with other parodies, and I felt no attachments to the characters - "Serendipity" is my kind of film, but you knew that already) and got to playing a lot of DDR on our pad at home. I wasn't feeling very tired, so I stayed up quite late. When I went to go sleep in the morning, my brother roused me to go to Atlanta. In order to avoid a mess, I agreed to go and slept about an hour in the car. When we got to Atlanta, we met up with my dad and Carol. We played a couple of hours of DDR in the arcade, and I got a haircut while my brother went shopping. After we got back to Nooga, we went down to an event CCS was having. David W was there helping with the inflatable activities they had. Ya know, bungee cords, obstacle courses, jousting...stuff like that. Ran the obstacle course a few times, and made the stupid decision to get in the oversized boxing glove ring with David A. After getting pelted, my neck was in pain for a couple of days. After that, the Davids, Jim (DW's friend from Atlanta), Sarah, and I decide to go to a late movie. Well, turns out, it's sold out...so we go to eat. While eating, I started feeling really bad. Like, as bad as I've felt in months. Was shaking and feeling cold. Went to see "Spider-Man" with them though, because I didn't have a car, and theater was dark, the chair was comfortable, and I was able to sleep anyway. Got about eight or nine hours of sleep when I got home that night. Came back to Auburn that next day.

Since then, I've been on the go pretty much constantly. I've gotten about eight hours of sleep every night, but I still don't feel like I'll fully recover until I can get about twelve one night.

So, classes are going pretty well. Composition isn't incredibly fun or anything, but I like the people and I understand most everything the teacher says. Conversation is a bit of a challenge, but nothing too horrible. You can really see a disparity though. Some of the people in there are almost fluent. Most of them have Latin boyfriends, which I consider to be cheating. Told Jared, the guy that sits by me, that apparently I just need to find a Latin girlfriend. Some of the others...well, it's painful to listen to. They stumble from word to word. There's one guy that stutters like crazy. I mean, he doesn't do it in English, but when he's reading, you get stuff like "Ca-ca-ca-ca-hue-hue-te" (peanut). Think he just needs a little more confidence in the language or something. As far as my speaking ability...think I'm somewhere in the middle. Oh, and Public Speaking kicks ass. I always get along with young female teachers for some reason. They're always so positive I guess. The people in there are pretty cool too. She keeps forcing everyone to get know each other more, which is good.

Oh, I'll take this moment to mention that I've got a thing for when girls with long straight hair...well, when the tips of their ears stick out through their hair. There just so happens to be a girl that sits in front of me that has that going on quite a bit which is why I mention it. Dunno what it is about it. Just cute I guess. Yeah, yeah...I'm not making a case for the "non-freak" claim, am I? =)

I'll wrap up by declaring an observation. Pretty much everyone that I know who wants to be with someone is and everyone who doesn't isn't. Kevin and D, Ros and Sarah Jane, Amber and Paul, Evan and Becca, Alex and Rachel, David L and Mia, Devin and whoever, Rick and some girl, John and some other girl. Heck, even Jordan's got a girl now and Glenn's got some girl he's pursuing. Natalie and Cat seem to have very little interest in dating, and I can respect that. David W and David A have also declared themselves to be perpetual bachelors also. So, basically, I feel like that leaves me...the guy that dates, but doesn't really. Yeah, yeah, I know. I promised not to say anything anymore, and it's not like it's really occupying my thoughts all that much, but it's just an observation that I thought I'd mention. I suppose it says I should just be content, eh?

Well, till next time.