Sara's been running in and out of the apartment for most of the evening with pledging stuff...which is perfectly fine with me, since I've been absorbed in playing Silhouette Mirage most of the time. I just hope she brings back my favorite flower barrette in good condition >.>;

So, yeah...Silhouette Mirage. Freaking LOVE that game. I bought it when I was 13 or something and was immediately hooked. I hadn't played it in years but then I discovered I still had the game disc so I started playing it again. I went straight through and didn't save at all (I don't know where Alexa's memory card is), which was fine and dandy until Za-Zohar annihilated me >.<
...Most of you probably have NO idea what I'm talking about...anyway...

Speaking of games, I was on the anti-Harvest Moon boat for a while until Brad and Audrey convinced me to give it a shot. So, I'm gonna borrow their DS copy and see if I enjoy it...we'll see...can't be any worse than Twilight.

Anyway...I've completely wasted the evening, and instead of being productive and doing homework or something I've been goofing around playing video games and whatnot. Though I guess earlier I was productive...PRISM had the band auditions for Night of Noise. We only had two bands sign up, and I'm pretty sure we're going to keep both of them and have them share the stage since we liked them so much. I'm really excited. Sara's been doing a lot of the Day of Silence planning (mainly because she wanted to), and I'm really proud of what she's accomplished so far. I was a little apprehensive about her doing so much for the event at first, mainly because I thought I'd feel like she was trying to usurp the presidency from me (I get a bit territorial, I'll admit it), but when it came to organizing the auditions and everything she always wanted my input and my approval, so that fear pretty much got erased within the first couple days.

I'm pretty pumped for this week's PRISM meeting, too...just another laid back night. We're watching "Wasabi Tuna" and ordering pizza. Should be awesome, as always.

We also might be getting a transgender guest speaker, if we can contingency the funds for her! PRISM's faculty advisor has been emailing me and a woman contacted her about possibly speaking for PRISM about transgender life and issues. Hopefully I find out more about that soon - it would be so neat to host this woman as a speaker and it would give PRISM a lot of publicity at the same time.

Enough babble. I'm out!

~Chu!

I talked to my parents the night I found most of my other half of the family's Facebooks. I decided that it's in my best interest to not contact my cousin. My dad said he'd feel extremely hurt and betrayed if I did, and it's best to "leave the bridges burned". I'll admit I wasn't exactly happy to hear that, but when I thought about it I knew it would be in my cousin's best interest to still believe I don't exist. I don't want to bring unneeded drama into her life.

My class is starting, so more later. Maybe.

~Chu

Finally! Some free time to blog!

I pretty much jumped into a full schedule as soon as I got back to school. I have two classes every weekday except Fridays, plus work, tutoring, PRISM, and socializing. Plus clinicals for education will be piled onto the heap in two weeks. Busy busy busy.

But so far, so good, I guess. Everyone's been kind of doing their own thing since it's spring term. Sara and Alexa have pledging pretty much every night, so they're gone most of the time. I thought it would bother me a lot more than it actually does - being alone at the Shrine pretty much every night - but it's not that bad. Usually I just end up meeting up with friends anyway, so I'm normally getting home right when they are. It would be nice to actually see them more, but eh, what can you do? Only four more weeks of pledging and then they'll be home more, and I'll probably end up wishing they still had pledging once that happens! Haha.

The only thing that really bums me about the roomates being gone so often is that pledging has kind of been on the forefront of their minds. It's hard, because I have exciting things with PRISM and life going on, but there's never the time to talk to them about it because they're either out the door or too tired to care. Last night was pretty much a prime example of this. They got home about 30 mins after I did and talked about pledging for a while - the normal routine of the week. Last night was my first meeting with PRISM as the new President, so I was actually kind of hoping they'd be excited and ask me for details on how it went. Well...that didn't happen. I actually kind of had to cut the pledging topic and interject with PRISM stuff to get them to even respond, and they didn't really seem all that...I don't know...excited. I realize that pledging is kind of the "big deal" for them right now, and every night that they've come home and talked about it I've been willing to listen to everything they've had to say, but it'd be kind of nice if they could maybe return the favor and ask me how my night was too. I'm probably just being selfish though -_-;;

But on a less venty note, and still on the subject of PRISM, I pretty much accomplished one of the most amazing feats ever within the first official week of being President. It has been one of my major goals to unite the Gay/Straight Alliance with the Christian community on campus, because for the longest time the two had nothing to do with each other. We were going to have an event called the Chili Cook-Off next week, in which we invited InterVarsity (the campus youth group) to participate, and they responded with an enthusiastic yes. Sadly, we had to cancel the event since it's pledging season and only three people/groups responded, but InterVarsity offered me two free tickets to a "Spring Fling" dance they are hosting the 21st, and when I went to pick the tickets up they were SO ridiculously excited about PRISM and InterVarsity working together. They were so nice and respectful and they had a lot of admiration for me for what I am trying to do. I feel that if the Christian community and the GSA work together we can overcome one of the biggest rifts in society right now. YEAHZ!

I'm gonna do do some homework now. I get to learn about teaching children with disabilities! And...computers...ew...>.<

~Chu!