I woke up today with my feet still in enormous amounts of pain, but my face also still smiling (through the grogginess of morning). The ball last night was a lot of fun. I love dancing with Nick. Basically, I just love hanging out with Nick in general, and dancing makes it even more fun. The only disappointment was that I didn’t dance with anyone EXCEPT Nick. I figured Viennese Ball would be sort of like Jammix with fancy dresses, and that when Nick was busy preparing for the vintage dance performance that he was in, there would be plenty of other guys for me to dance with. Instead, everyone was glued to their dates. No one danced with anyone else, and so when Nick wasn’t available, I just sort of stood around. So that part was sort of a bummer…but the rest was quite fun.
Yes, I love dancing with Nick. We got off to a slow start; the first dance was a really fast waltz, and my shoes turned out to not be very good waltzing shoes. I wished I had brought my real dance shoes, but I hadn’t. We moved to the swing room soon enough though, and that was tons of fun. I think I am really getting much better, at least I hope I am. I am not a very good dancer, but Nick makes me feel like I’m better than iI actually am, and he doesn’t care when I mess up. In fact, when I mess up, he usually says it was fine anyway. And he got me a corsage. I’ve never gotten a corsage before; I guess that’s what happens when you don’t go to prom in high school. Still, I was quite excited about it.
You know, if I could date a guy who treats me even half as well as Nick treats me, I would be really lucky.
We took a picture of ourselves all dressed up, but Nick is having trouble downloading it from his camera, so I don’t have it to post here yet.
This afternoon I talked to Chris and Christina, who are coming out here tomorrow to visit! I also talked to James, which was a surprise. I have been meaning to email him for some time, but I’ve been really slack with my email these days. He had been with Chris earlier and was disgruntled that Chris hadn’t thought to let him talk to me, so he called! It was really nice, we got all caught up on each others’ lives. He has been spending a lot of weekends in Houston with Chrissy, so maybe I’ll even get to see him when I go down there for spring break.
In other random news, Carter and Kent took off today for Orlando to go to a Disney rollercoaster park and see two Braves spring training games. I really envy their ability to just take off and go. It’s weird, because I know that neither one of them is exactly in their ideal situation these days — Kent suffering through grad school when he never even wanted to go to grad school, and Carter suddenly with more free time on his hands than he wanted after the job crap. Still…I envy them. I am so busy with school these days that I don’t really even have time to be overtly social, but I still miss being at Tech where I had a fairly large, but also very tight group of friends. Here, if Nick, Emily, and Susan are all busy, then I really don’t have anyone to call and say “hey, do you randomly want to go to Fry’s with me?” or anything like that. Much less take off to see spring training games. I guess what they say about college being the most freedom you’ll ever have is really true. Undergrad, that is, not graduate school.
Anyway, Aaron and I are off to buy a lightbulb for our E206 project, since I managed to completely fry the one we had. I hooked it up and turned on the power source…bad idea. Someone had turned the power source off while it was still set to 10 volts, and I didn’t think to check first. Since the poor little lightbulb can only handle about 3 volts, it flashed in a burst of glory and then went dark forever. Ugh. This is why I should not be allowed to do anything dealing even remotely with circuits. Anyway. Off we go to replace it.
(1:06 a.m.)
I just got back from seeing Amelie, a French movie, with Susan. It was such a cute film! It made me want to go back to Paris soooo badly; it also made me wish for the umpteenth time that falling in love was as easy as depicted in movies. In any case, it was a great choice, and I highly recommend seeing it. And that is all I have to say, since I’m off to bed. Tomorrow I have to get up in time to do laundry and calibrate PHATman’s sensors before Christina and Chris get here for their visit.