Flunk Day! (yesterday)

Yesterday was Flunk Day! I had a great time. Well, overall. We were supposed to have a Cranium game and then watch Meet Me In St. Louis, but Lori must have had a really bad day at school because she got back and shut herself in her room and didn’t come out all evening. I realize she must have had a bad day and I sympathize, because I’m sure teaching 5th graders is a thankless task but I don’t empathize very much. I can’t imagine being in such a bad mood that I can’t talk to anybody and just want to shut myself away. Part of that is because it’s just not in my nature to be like that and part of it is that I wasn’t allowed to do that when I was growing up. If I was in a bad mood, it didn’t matter; I still had to do things. I’m not saying I don’t think she should do that, not at all. She has every right to do that—I just don’t understand it very well.

I got a little sunburned on my face yesterday. I put my moisturizer on, and didn’t put other sunscreen on because it has a sunscreen built into it. Only I didn’t realize that when I put my moisturizer on, I don’t put it all the way to my hairline. As a result, there is a strip of sunburned skin at the top of my forehead. It’s comical when you think about it (and when you look at it) but its annoying because it got pretty strongly burned and now I’m going to have an awkward tan line on my forehead.

I’m more focused on med school again. I really do want it again. I might not be the best doctor in the world, but my priorities are going to be different. I probably will go into some sort of clinic work which will give me the flexibility to do what I want with my family life.

I completely spaced about Bible study last night. I didn’t even realize until this morning that I missed it. I was so focused on Flunk Day that I didn’t even notice it was Thursday, except to note that I didn’t have lab. I’m debating on whether or not to email everyone and apologize for missing or to just wait til next week and tell them it was because it was flunk day. Probably I’ll just wait and tell them. Other people miss sometimes too.

My favorite part of Flunk day was in the afternoon. Amanda, Ashley, and I had just finished watching Mean Girls and decided to go sit outside and enjoy the day. I was laying on a blanket and Amanda and Ashley were sitting in the grass. Jeff walked over to us and lay down next to me. He asked me if the animal hair on my blanket was dog hair and I said it was probably cat hair. He got off the blanket.
“Well, its probably a mix of both. Does that make it better?” I said. He said it did but he still didn’t want to be on my blanket. He’s not allergic to cats, he just doesn’t like them very much. He had two labs at home (one of them died recently, I believe) and he and his brother Jason love them very much. He started picking on Amanda and it was really funny. He took her shoes and threw them then she took his hat and tried to throw it but didn’t get very far because he grabbed her sock and twisted it until she said she’d get his hat for him. It’s really funny because Jeff is only doing this to Amanda because he knows he can get a rise out of her. If he threw my shoes I’d probably just shrug it off and get them later. Because she freaks out a little, he teases her more. It was nice being outside and just sitting and talking. I like talking to Jeff. He’s a good conversationalist. Its especially funny when there are other people around because he picks on the ones like Amanda and tries to shock the ones that don’t rise to the occaision with his redneck remarks. Half of what he says, he doesn’t really believe. He only says it because he knows that it will shock people. Personally I find it amusing that he does this. It would be annoying if he did it all the time but I know better. He left to go study for his genetics test today and we went inside because the sun had gone away and we were cold.

We watched four episodes of House MD last night. It was funny because Ashley kept laughing out loud at House’s random comments which are very out of nowhere. I’m going to miss hanging out with them when school is out. I’m going to be spending much more time with my family and I might have to start going places and doing things on my own. For instance, going to movies by myself, and going to coffee shops to sit and read for awhile. If Beth goes to Iowa (which Mom says she just has this feeling that Beth will go to Iowa and Mom being very accurate with her feelings means Beth probably will) I can hang out with her and she can hang out with me and we can avoid our families on a regular basis. It will be nice being at home in one sense because its comfortable and I know everyone there will love me no matter what, at the same time, my living habits have changed slightly since I haven’t lived at home for very long periods of time and I’m going to have to readjust.

I’m still excited to move my stuff back in, though, and organize everything. It’s a little stressful but more interesting now that I’m trying to make everything fit. It’s like a puzzle and I have to get everything to work in just the right way so that I’m not living in clutter. The next decision I have to make is whether or not to have my DVDs in my room or downstairs with the rest of the DVDs. Decisions, decisions! J