first day back, and it was a strange one

first off, I'M EXHAUSTED. I'm going to sleep all the way through Saturday until Sunday.

so today was the first day of my second semester at Butte, and it was alright. I like my geography teacher, he seems really cool. towards the end of class he had us draw a map of the world and he told us to be as detailed as possible (disclaimer: he told us that during our final we could fix our maps for more points if we didn't do so well today). so we had probably 35-40 minutes left of class when he gave us the paper. I got my pencil out and started out with the US but drew it too big so I had to erase it and start over. so I drew the world and it wasn't great, but it definitely wasn't bad either. everybody left about 5-10 minutes after we started but I stayed almost the entire rest of the time drawing, erasing, labeling, realizing things weren't right, erasing again, redrawing, relabeling. so I handed it to him and he looked at it and said "Well you're definitely done with this," meaning that I wouldn't have to edit it at the end of the semester. yay!

then I went outside, met up with Elnora, and we went to our music class (American Popular Music). luckily we found seats together. we did roll and then we talked a little bit about what music was and then we played music trivial pursuit; we listened to 3 songs each from the '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, and today and we had to identify the name of the song/the artist. most of the songs I had no idea what they were, but others were easy. and it was extra credit, so that was nice. got done with that and met up with Heather outside the library. went to the cafeteria because I was hungry and after I ate my pizza we went to find my life management classroom in the AHPS building. then I walked Heather to her painting class and hung out in the library for a little bit. walked over to life management, blah blah blah, class time, teacher reminds me of Mrs. Marsters a little bit (YEAH BABY!!!) and blah blah blah. it seems like it should be a fun class though.

after that class I met back up with Heather and she was really hungry so we went to get her some food. so we were standing by the chicken strip part of the cafe and this guy walks by and I look at him and he says "What's up?" and all I managed to say was "Heyyy" in an awkward tone. it was James. 1) never thought I'd see him again in a normal environment and 2) I didn't know he was going to school. I couldn't get over how weird it was to see him. it was SO WEIRD!!! so weird. then Heather and I went and sat outside the library at one of the freezing cold cement picnic tables. maybe 10-15 minutes later James comes walking towards the library toward the old entrance doors (the swapped sides for some MYSTERIOUS reason, I do not understand, everybody looked like an idiot trying to open the doors with no handles) and I said to him "Wrong door," and he continued walking towards us and gave me a low five and a pound. I don't even know, it was just SO weird! then we talked about school for a minute or something, I don't really remember, something about general ed and it being better than high school. blah blah blah. then he left and went into the library. I DON'T EVEN KNOW! it was just so strange seeing him! and particulary TWICE! but it wasn't awkward, not at all, it was just weird to see him is all.

then tonight when I checked my messages on the 'space, Parker replied to a message I sent AGES ago wondering why it wouldn't let me add him (he had the 'last name or email required to add' thing and "Young" wasn't working) so I told him I had tried a few times, but it still didn't work. (I then had dinner, etc.) got back on, and he sent me a friend request and it said the full name was 'Parker Young Photography', so that explained why "Young" didn't work as his last name. I still feel so strange for having such a huge crush on him. it's just weird, but he's amazing. and I LOVE his taste in music. he posted this Nelly Furtado song on his blog and I don't really care for her much, but I really like the song (All Good Things (Come To An End)).

and tomorrow I get my braces off for a week. Heather's taking me and she's going to document it all. and then Wednesday I go to the dentist. I'm really excited for the next two days. I just hope I look decent without them. :)