In-Between-Week

Well, the last time we spoke, it was last Tuesday, and I had just come back from a quite spectacular weekend. This time I am coming back from a fun, but certainly not spectacular. I went to a party at some friends’ house. I met these two extraordinary people at the Faerieworlds afterparty, and it wasn’t quite a party this time, just us three and their little girl (4 years old). Biggest fire I’ve seen in a while. It started so small and just kept getting bigger, and then it was just a giant pile of smoldering coals, and the only thing I wanted was a couple sticks and a bag of marshmallows. But alas, we were devoid of marshmallows – it was a mallow completely devoid of the marsh factor.

But that was Saturday, I still need to fill you in on the rest of the week. Got back a midterm from Linear Algebra (the class I had the worst time with last term) and it was an 87, and with the curve, that is an A! In addition, I got a 95 on my several-variable calculus midterm, so yay me! On the less bright side, I got a C on my second chem midterm (but got an A on the first one, so I’m sitting around a B– at the moment, and I fully intend to bring it up before this term is done) and it was pretty much my fault. Grades overall are going well.

I am going to go see Avenue Q this weekend, which is supposed to be hilarious (I know nothing about it really) and the tag line is “60% adult situations, 40% foam rubber.” It is basically a musical/comedy with muppets in really adult situations (Rod and Nicky who are roommates discussing if Rod is Gay, or the song “The Internet Is For Porn”) and I cannot wait.

Above all else at the moment, I need two things. I need something I try to go unmistakably and irreversibly right, because there has been a lot of things recently that have been seemingly good, and then crash down several days later. I’m kinda gettin’ tired of it… The second thing that I’m gonna need really soon is sleep. I just havn’t been getting to bed when I want, and this is my fault, so I’m going to work on that. I also think that I am building up a tolerance to my sleep meds.

I have developed an amazing connection with the people here, but at the same time, I really miss some of my friends back home. I have been spending a lot of the last week feeling really alone, until last night. Chelsea, for some very strange reason that I do not understand, is my anchor. She keeps me safe and sane, no matter what crap I am going through. It is quite remarkable, because to look at her, you would see no great soothing power, or great gift of calm, but when I hold on to her, everything just seems easier. Like the problems that I may be having just kind of melt away for that short second, and when I take a second look at the world, nothing seems as bad. Quite incredible indeed.

Well, I know it was a short entry, but that’s all the updates from this in-between-week, a week where nothing is really happening, but is simply recovering from the extraordinary events of last week and waiting for the repairs for the damage come next week.

“… and tread on for miles across weirdish, wild space. Headed, I fear, towards a most useless place: the waiting place. For people just waiting”

Goodnight, and I love you