Bit of Ivory

It’s been a busy weekend, so I have a lot to blog about. Let’s start at the very beginning, shall we?

Friday was good. I’m trying to think if we did anything productive. Hmm. . .nope, not a thing. I *did* get paid for Ginny, so I am now $400 richer. That is, I would be if I hadn’t spent it already.

On Saturday I did a little bit of work on my paper– not much, of course. I just made an outline. Then I drove home for Easter dinner, since it would be easier for us kids to all get together on Saturday night. After dinner I went to the Murray Arts Centre with a group from my Social Dance class. They have ballroom and swing dancing there every Friday and Saturday night. There weren’t enough guys, but the guys were very good about sharing themselves out, so I still had a great time. I danced a tango with our teacher, Jason. Have I ever mentioned him before? He’s a great dancer, and *very* good eye candy. Half the fun of our class is looking at him. He’s not my type, but I could look at him forever. Anyway, I had a blast, but we didn’t get home until about 1 AM, which, considering we had 9:00 church, wasn’t the greatest.

Sunday was good– Church was actually very nice, when I was coherent enough to pay attention. When I got home I took a nice 3 hour nap. Then Jen and I continued reading Darkness and Light to our friend Katrina. We had been watching CoS, and my sisters were swooning over Snape as usual, and Kat mentioned that she just didn’t get the Snape thing. To which I immediately responded “well, you just haven’t read Darkness and Light.” We started reading it out loud to her shortly thereafter, but since it *is* the end of the semester, Real Life will intrude. Yesterday we finally read ch. 7 of Personal Risks, and we got up to If We Survive ch. 4, but only the very beginning of it. Because the end of IWS 4 is the Cliffhanger from Hades (thanks a lot, RJA), and I knew if we finished it we’d have to read at least the next 3 chapters before we got to a good stopping place, and Kat didn’t have that much time. I am happy to report, though, that she is completely hooked, and we have now gotten my roommate Amber interested as well, by virtue of the fact that she was in the room while we read. So there’s two more converts to D&L, RJA. I am doing my duty as a missionary. Kat’s going to come over tonight to read some more.

After Kat left, I finally got to work on my paper. This was at about 8:00. By 2 AM I had 10 pages. It’s a pretty good paper, too. This is good, because it’s also the last one I’ll ever write in my undergraduate career. I find it highly appropriate that my last paper was on my favorite book ever– Pride and Prejudice.

I turned in my paper this morning (a little late– I was writing it on Ginny, and since she doesn’t have a floppy drive and I don’t have any CD burning software, the only way to move the file from Ginny to Harry was to e-mail it to myself, which took time), then went to work at noon.

After work I headed over to the CougarEat to get some lunch and do some studying. There, I ran into James. Now, longtime readers of this blog will remember James as the guy I’ve been head-over-heels in love with for more than 5 years now. Those who haven’t read this blog for long will now understand why I identify so much with Ginny. Anyway, I’ve barely seen him this semester– last semester we had schedules that put us in roughly the same place several times a week, but I think I’ve seen him 3 times tops since January. Anyway, I had invited him to go dancing with our group on Saturday, but he just had too much studying to do. However, Jen and Josh (the guy I took to Preference) decided they wanted to go again this coming Saturday because they’re going to teach the Lindy Hop. I’ve always wanted to learn how to Lindy, so I figured I’d see if James could come next week instead. I was going to call him, but running into him was ever so much nicer. Every time I see him I’m amazed again at just how incredibly gorgeous he is. He’s got these piercing blue eyes and light-brown curly hair that I would love to run my fingers through. Anyway, I asked him if he wanted to go, and he said he’d love to, except that he isn’t sure he’s free. Apparently his brothers are setting him up with someone this weekend, and he couldn’t remember if it was Friday or Saturday, but he thinks it’s Friday. I hope it is, because I haven’t been dancing with James in over a year, and that was Contra dancing, not ballroom. So I *might* have a date with a really hot guy Saturday night. Wish me luck.

After I recovered from seeing James, I studied for and took my Pearl of Great Price test. I got an 87%, which I am perfectly satisfied with. There were 146 questions on the darn thing, and McConkie is one of the hardest religion teachers here. An 87% is probably enough to get me at least an A- in the class.

I also bought my Easter dress from the Bookstore. It cost $95, which is more than I would usually spend for a dress, but it looks adorable on me and that’s so rare that I couldn’t resist. Mom will go in $50 on it, and I’ll pick up the rest as a graduation present to myself. In fact, I think I’ll wear it *to* graduation.

So, I think that covers it. All caught up.