8/23/24

Today was a kinda busy day for me. I didn't have breakfast, #intermittentfasting, but I had an Alani energy drink and a scoop of creatine. Then I drove off to class.

I had Anatomy II first and that was alright. I got asked to close the door in the middle of class, so that was the little highlight of the class today. But yeah, we're talking about the brain and stuff now. After that class got over, I talked to Evan Blondin because he was texting me about his fraternity, so I told him I could come to one of their things this evening.

Then I had Music Artist Expression and that class feels like it goes by so slow. But it's kinda fun, we learned about this monastery in Kentucky that sings chants. I guess we're on the chant unit, because all we've been talking about is Gregorian chants, syllabic chants, all of those. But, yeah, I still haven't talked to anyone in that class. Also he gave us a report to right by next week over artifacts from the Dark Ages, so that was kind of random.

After class I ate a meat stick that I had and went to the gym. I've really been trying to gain muscle. School starting back up has me kind of motivated. So I feel like I went pretty hard at the gym, even though I just use machines and stuff.

After the gym, I went to Nana's and ate some cheese and yogurt (and I think that lowkey gave me stomach problems for a bit) and finished all of my stuff due this week. Then I kinda just layed around not doing anything until around 6 o'clock, which was when I left to go to Lambda Chi Alpha's thing.

It was so awkward showing up to that because I had no idea where to park, who was gonna be there, or how to get in. So I ended up parking in an apartment parking lot, and then finally texting Evan. Then Evan called me and came out to greet me. He led me into the house and introduced me to some people. I always thought Lambda was a little more laid-back than TKE or other frats, but they seemed kinda wild, too. And apparently they had a party yesterday, which is kinda weird, because who throws parties on a Thursday. I talked to Layne Collier for a good bit because he was there. He was my Camp Redhawk counselor before my freshman year here. Then we started playing poker, because that's what this was, a game night. But that one game of poker lasted like, two hours, which was the entire time I was there. There weren't really that many guys there, either. Only like, six or seven playing poker, and probably about six who weren't playing. I don't even really remember anyone's names. So honestly, I like TKE more than them as of now, even though I thought they would've been better.

But yeah, I left there around 8:45 PM and got back to Nana's around 9. Then I was planning on going to the TKE party tonight, so I texted Mason, cause he was the sober driver I knew best for tonight. So he picked me up and we drove to the TKE house. It's always kinda awkward at first, and I hadn't pregamed or anything. Grant and some other dude were outside, so Mason and I talked to them for a bit. Then I got a drink (my first time trying Twisted Tea!) and talked to some guys on the front porch. I met a dude named Jordan. They were having people sign their name before they went into the party, but didn't have me do that, so I don't know what that was about. I honestly don't really remember what happened. I'm writing this on Sunday now and I went to a Saturday party too, so I'm getting Friday and Saturday a little mixed up.

But yeah, once I start drank some, I think I played some flip cup. Then Danny said he was gonna teach me to shotgun so Nyk (who was bartending) gave us a beer, but he opened it, so I ended up beer bonging it instead, and that was also a first. I did it in the bar area, got down on my knee, and literally started sputtering as soon as it got to my mouth. But then I retried once I regained myself and I downed that mug. Then they got me another beer and we went up to the porch to shotgun. Danny cracked the hole in it and I downed that. I think I got it down alright. There were some girls Danny knew out there cheering me on, so that's cool. So yeah, I ended up staying outside and had a really long conversation on the porch with this dude who I think was named Cade? But we talked about music, Star Wars, Marvel, high school, it was honestly really fun, because I suck at these kinda conversations usually, but with the alcohol, it was actually enjoyable. Nyk showed up and talked with us some too, and then a dude named Miguel, (that goes by Michael) also showed up, and he was cool, too. Then they started smoking some weed from a pipe thing, and I took a couple hits, too, just to y'know, say I've tried it. I didn't really feel anything, so maybe I inhaled wrong, but I think I was just too drunk to notice it. I talked to Oliva, the girl from Snapchat who's into me, but I'm not really into her, for a tiny bit. And I think that was basically it. I left the same time that Cade did, in Kyle's car. And I had a good talk with Kyle, too. Definitely only because I was drunk, though.

So Kyle dropped me off at Nana's and I locked the door, but then I realized I left the key in the door, so I put the key back outside, relocked it, and then went back upstairs, but then I remembered going to check the door for a third time, just to make sure it was locked. So at least I'm still worried about home security while drunk. Then I hopped on Roblox and talked to a bunch of people on there. Talking on Roblox while drunk is as fun as being at a party. I went on this game called Neighbors, which is like, 1 on 1 talking, and ended up talking to this one girl for 2 hours. And it was like, 6 am before I went to bed.

So yeah, tonight was really about new experiences because I did like, three things I'd never done before, which I think is good, even if they aren't good things. It's not like I'm gonna do that stuff all the time. But yeah, today was a fulfilling day. 9/10.

7/26/24

Today was the day our vacation began. We have a Caribbean cruise planned in the next week and today and tomorrow we'll be going to New Orleans because that's where we'll be leaving out of. I'm really not sure of what I did today because I don't really remember, but I'll get the basic details.

I'm pretty sure I did nothing important throughout the day until we left. I probably just packed for the trip. So after I was done packing, my mom got home, and we were all ready, we left at around 4:00 PM. We went to Nana's before officially leaving just to check in on her and stuff. I sprayed for spiders upstairs because they've been kinda bad over here, and I almost died from the fumes of that spray. That stuff was lethal. But yeah hopefully they won't be as bad.

Then we left and didn't stop until we got to Sikeston, where we ate McDonald's. It was supposed to be Arby's but they were closed or something. But McDonald's was pretty good. I wanted to go to Walmart in Sikeston because it said they had Lego Minifigures in stock and I've been on a little kick of collecting them again. I know they're kinda childish, but they are fun things to collect. But we didn't go.

After leaving Sikeston, I don't think we stopped at all until the hotel. We did drive through Memphis and there was a little action there. My dad almost missed the interstate exit, but instead of just waiting for the next exit to turn around, he cut over and waited in between the exit and the interstate and got honked at. Janell made fun of him for that. And that'll be a trend, there was a lot of bickering between Janell and dad this trip. But yeah we drove through Memphis, I think we stopped at a gas station for a pee break a little after that, and then we got to Batesville, MS at around 8:45 PM. Before we went to our hotel we went to McDonald's again. This time it was actually my idea, though, because I wanted a McFlurry. It was a pretty good McFlurry. After that I convinced us to stop at Dollar General so that my dad could get some ankle socks, but what I wanted were Minifigures. I didn't think they had any, until we were leaving and they had some Marvel ones near the register, which is kinda crazy since those came out several years ago. But I didn't end up getting any. My dad did get his socks though.

Then we went to our hotel, a Hampton Inn, got checked in, and watched a mix of Griswald's Family Vacation and Men in Black, switching every time a commercial showed up. But it ended up being mainly Family Vacation, and Janell wanted to keep watching it even though everyone else wanted to go to sleep. I was kinda either way on watching or sleeping until my parents had her turn the volume all the way down, then it wasn't really worth watching. So I went to bed.

Today was pretty good, it was the start of a vacation, so that's always good. 7/10.