I got yelled at/hit on for the first time today
Last night, after I wrote my blog, I went downstairs to wash my dishes around 12:30. Matt came in and said that he had been out all day with a group of other economic students working on a macroeconomic problem and they didn’t really get anywhere. They, as in more than one person, had been working on it until midnight and they still weren’t close to being finished. He said it was frustrating. I can’t imagine. I don’t think I’ll ever get that deep into econ. He’s doing pre-doctoral or doctoral stuff with all kinds of complicated math and calculus, if I hadn’t said that before. Crazy smart guy. Just wanted to mention that.
I woke up this morning at 8:15, planning on working on my internship paper for G-town in the morning and then pumping out a rough draft for my tutorial paper in the afternoon. I took a little while but did get my G-town paper pretty much done in the morning. My mom called for a quick chat because she wasn’t going to be able to talk tonight so that was good, although skype was acting weird. I then went to lunch at Regent’s and sat near Marshelle who had been much more productive than me. She got to her library by 10 that morning. She said I would be proud. Haha. I guess she thinks I’m better at keeping on track then her. She was trying to get stuff done because she was going to a play in Stratford this evening.
After lunch I walked with her to the mall, of sorts, so she could buy some hair things to pull back her hair at Claire’s. She had gone to a few other stores earlier and none had hair things so she had to resort to Claire’s. Weird. Then she went to her library and I went back to Stanley Rd. to work. I didn’t get much done. I read through my G-town paper one last time and then sent it off to Dr. Cairo. I read some of Hitch Hiker, which I shouldn’t have done, and then Kyle happened to be back at his apartment so I talked to him some. As soon as I got done talking to him Amanda messaged me so I talked to her on AIM for a bit. Then I finally made myself buckle down. I didn’t write but I got notes down for two of my discussion questions and a sort of outline with pages where stuff is for my paper. The last question, I sort of know but I just have to write stuff down and look through some of the articles again, which usually I don’t take notes on the questions until the morning of the tutorial so I’m ahead there.
I was thinking of going to a lecture tomorrow morning, but now I think I’ll wait since I’m already going to a talk for my tutorial this week. Next week I’ll try going to a lecture when I don’t have my other stuff to do too.
Then the excitement came on my walk to dinner. It was already sort of dark, so I was just walking in my baggy jeans and hoodie so I couldn’t have looked too attractive if they could even really see me. I think I just got their attention because I have blond hair. Anyway, there were these guys across the street sort of jumping up and down and they had been running. They were sort of yelling but not anything that I could understand so I glanced over but kept walking because I thought they were just yelling at each other, like guys do, to pump each other up or something. Then they started to run across the street when the traffic had cleared, and they were yelling, “Hey! Hey!” at me (there was no one else really around). For some reason I was thinking they were asking me for the time. Now I am extremely dense when it comes to guys so this isn’t really that surprising that this is what I thought. If you would like other stories about how I have been dense in the past, you can e-mail me, but my entries are already too long so I won’t tell them here. Anyway, I’m glad I didn’t tell them the time but waited to make sure that was what they were asking. They weren’t, obviously. I had turned, so one guy yells, “I fancy you.” I just sort of laughed and started to turn back around. Then the other guys yells, “Can I have your phone number?” I sort of shrugged and yelled back that I didn’t know it, which I don’t because I never use my actual phone. He sort of said, “Aw!” or something to that effect of disappointment but they went on their way. I don’t know what they would have done if I had said yes because there is only one of me and there were two of them, both of them hitting on me in a way. But anyway, I just laughed and went on my way. Quite an amusing experience.
I came into dinner and I told Ruth about it. She laughed and said I should have said I was taken. Didn’t think about that response, just answered with the first thing that came to my head. Dinner was good and actually filling, some sort of vegetable pie-like thing. Dessert was a trifle, which I don’t think I’ve ever had before. It was pretty good, although there was cake in the jello (or jelly as they say) part of it, which is what it is supposed to be but I didn’t really like that. After dinner, Ruth and I went up to the JCR and some other people did as well. We talked about travel abroad and some other things. She said her parents are now thinking they will come up Saturday instead of Sunday so I don’t guess we’ll do anything that day, but maybe before then, for her birthday.
I think tomorrow after lunch we’re going to walk over to the box office of the theatre where the ballet is so she can get a ticket. I told her I was probably going to a “coffee concert” on Sunday but she said she would be at church at that time so she can’t go. Marshelle is probably going with me though, so I won’t have to go alone. After a while, I decided to head back here, which I’m glad I did when I did because it started raining while I was walking and rained progressively harder as I went, but of course, I didn’t have my umbrella. I put my hood of my sweatshirt up so it was okay but my pants and shoes were soaked as well as my sweatshirt.
When I got in, I talked to Kyle again and when I told him about the guys, he said awesome, not really the response I was expecting but okay. I then read some of the globalization book until it made me tired. Then I talked to Melissa online for a while. And now I am going to go to bed so I can try to get up early and write my paper. Just a normal day with a bit of excitement.