Friday night I spent some time with Meredith, watching Torchwood, sitting the dark. Then Ellen and I ended up walking to 710 to see what was up and only stayed there about 20 minutes before they went to a movie and Ellen and I stayed up late late talking into the night.
Saturday was really quality time day. Ellen went to work early so I met Claire and we walked around the farmer's market ogling the produce. We sat in Cafe Verde with some coffee and I picked her brain about co-op living roles and then we basically hashed life out again. It was really nice, especially because I feel that I connect better with people one on one. I was in the bathroom about to leave when Michelle rang me and told me she'd just come pick me up at the co-op. So I was waiting outside for her texting inappropro jokes to Meredith when I get this tap on the shoulder and it was Meredith! She stood chatting with me until Michelle drove by screaming ZIMZIM out the window. I ran to meet her and we stopped at Ellen's for me to feel like I would forget something and lo and behold, somehow left the bottoms to my swimsuit there. Got to Michelle's and chatted with her parents then we spent time trading off vacuuming the pool. Michelle made me a fab sandwich and I wore an extra swimsuit to pool it up. I swam while Michelle floated around on a thingy. More hashing out of life and loving each other a lot. It was super nice. We got out in order to pee and got some wine and of course when I was dragging the floaty back to its home, I knocked the empty wine glasses into the pool. Michelle saved one and I dived for the other but couldn't find it, so she had to get her hair wet and found it broken with only half the chip...sooo there's glass in her pool. I was way mellow due to sun, swimming and wine at that point.
She drove me back to Ellen's, where I showered and then cried over chopping an onion. Neale and Chris showed up for awkward family dinner, then You-Sun, and I was loopy and basically made too many inappropriate jokes and laughed til I cried and squeaked. A lethargy fell over the guests, mostly Neale and You-Sun, after dinner (and BROWNIE GOO), and they literally fell asleep in the living room as I awkwardly flitted about. Everyone took off kind of early, leaving Ellen and I to again sit and talk about life. I'm really not complaining at all because it was a really nice dynamic, and it basically became how I am at home, which was somehow comforting, Ellen reading me funny passages from her book, me doing sudoku.
On Sunday I went to Meredith's for scrambled eggs and a really good episode of Big Bang Theory, interspersed with yelling, laughing and lovely blueberry tea. And fun talk! I headed to Starbucks next for the handing over the of the RC Review binder and some insight from Jackie and Meg and general freakout that it's at my fingertips and I can do what I wish with it! I went home and ate lunch with Ellen and Anna came home. Anna later accompanied me out to coffee with Al. Rather, he bought Starbucks again and then I suggested we take a walk.
He took us to his office on Main St, like legit up into it, unlocking doors, which I felt kind of privileged about. Then we walked down Fourth, where we ran into Landon and his dad and where Al gave me an elephant. Nice surprise. We then continued down to see the outside of my house, Mock Trial house where the boys are living next year, and then circled back around to the diag, where we sat talking until Ellen and her friend joined us. Al had to continue moving house and the rest of us stood talking until we headed back to the apartment. I was exhausted by that point, all the walking around and had had a sore throat since Saturday night. Basically the rest of the day was spent making fun of Anna writing the longest e-mail in the world, general chatter, eating chocolate, etc. Then it was gonna be an early night, with me sleeping on the futon. Computer froze while I was facebook stalking, but I didn't let that deter me and went to bed having trouble sleeping.
I ended up sleeping til ten though, so it was good. We all spent time together at the table, then Ellen got coffee with me before I met Chris to see the house, which was cool! I think I know which room I want and it's pretty decent considering other student housing I've seen. He came back to Starbucks with me to collect Ellen and we hung about there for awhile before going back to the apartment. Once Chris left, I decided I was hungry so Ellen and I waited for Anna before going to Jerusalem Garden for lunner. Foodgasm. Then cupcakegasm. Then felt the need to walk it off, so Michelle brought me my iPod, which I had left at her house, and I walked to 710 with her to say goodbye to people and then went back. I was basically just chilling on facebook with Anna before the train. She walked me all the way to the station and it ended up being an hour late, but she stayed with me the whole time. I didn't get into Kalamazoo until 11, my cold having worsened on the way home making me miserable. Oh, and a screaming child behind me. We sat in Battle Creek for like ten minutes and I nearly had a tantrum. Came home, showered, unpacked, and pretty much just went to bed.
Today I babysat next door and discovered that teenagers are a bit hard to deal with, but that when they're my age, I think they might understand more. Also learned that kids can make fun of me saying everything is adorable. Ah well, it went ok. Hung out at home in my semi-cold-misery with T and need to go to bed early cus am babysitting again tomorrow. To do zumba or not to do zumba...? I think I'll see how I feel tomorrow.
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