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Well, holy crap, y'all! I meant to post this weekend, but my weekend was too jam-packed!

Saturday morning, the two kids I teach English played each other in little league soccer (or whatever it's called. I may be a soccer teacher (does that exist?) but I'm not a soccer mom yet. In any case, I think I might sign my kids up for dance instead.) and since one of the members of my English teaching group is coach for one of their teams, a lot of us went out to support them! It was also a sort of team-building activity, but, y'know, an actually fun one--not a ropes course or crap like that. I HATE ROPES COURSES! Which is why I've always come up with excuses not to go on them. Ha ha ha! Anyways, one of the kids comes from Latin America, and his family had a bunch of snacks from their home country that they shared with us, which was really sweet of them! I don't remember the name, but it was some sort of special bread with chicken, mayo and some various veggies. They were so good! I even got to take one home for dinner that night.

And then as soon as I got home, two of my roommates and I went and had pizza and ice cream! It was really fun, even though I'm always at odds with one of them. I mean, with my three current roommates, I have one I love, that one I have a love-hate relationship with, and the other one that I'm just always annoyed with--but enough of airing my dirty laundry on the Internet. It was a really nice time! And I got them both to like a k-pop song--MAGO by GFRIEND, to be exact.

Then that night, a friend and I went to Wal-Mart! We're in the K-Pop Club together at our college, and we were buying some presents for two of our members, since we have one graduating and one transferring.

The next day, another friend and I went to this little Chinese restaurant in town (who had maybe the best beef and broccoli and vegetable lo mein I've ever had!!) and then went to Wal-Mart again! This time we got a prize for the activity we had planned for our meeting tonight (a Kahoot where we guessed who added what song to our group Spotify playlist) and I got some DVDs, and I got a cookie cake (because I lurrrve cookie cakes) for our meeting tonight. And then I called Blue and Green (for any newcomers to my blog, Blue is my bestie for the restie that I've known since middle school, and Green is our other best friend from high school) until pretty late.

And then there was today! We had our last k-pop club meeting of the semester tonight, and it was a little emotional. Both our leaving members really liked their gifts, which was really heartwarming! I'm gonna miss them all so much but I'm so glad I've gotten to know them. :)

(There was some more here but my browser crashed and I lost it! Grr D:< )

It's a long weekend! My college very graciously gave us today off, so I'm sitting back in my room at home having a swell old time. So far this morning I read a book on how to write a romance novel (which I plan to do one day--a Regency romance in the style of Jane Austen or Georgette Heyer) and surfed the Net for a while. Specifically I was looking at "IndieWeb" sites I found on Marginalia, which is one of my favourite hot spots for finding new sites. I think a lot of those sites are pretty cool! Even if some of them still have corporate-ish modern-ish design, which feels a bit ironic to me somehow. I don't like that modern, corporate style (you know the kind--think Weebly/Wix/Squarespace) anyhow--it's so soulless, it makes me sick to look at.

But I digress. I don't really have much planned for today, except that I have a club meeting to lead around 7:00. My mum and I thought we might have some pasta for lunch, but beside that I'm totally free! I think I might play some Splatoon and watch a little YouTube, given that since Lent is over, I no longer have to restrict my non-necessary YouTube-watching to one day per week. Although I'm still going to dry to watch much more conservatively--I like actually getting out there and surfing the Net, or even better, getting off the computer and reading a book/watching TV/crocheting (which I need to pick back up)/etc. I was crocheting a scarf with some cool, multi-coloured (a lot of neon mixed with some black--it's almost MySpace scene-styled!) yarn, but at some point I kind of fell off it. It's pretty lop-sided, anyways--my first crochet project that's not a square--but I still want to finish it for next winter, and hope people won't noticed the many places where I somehow lost a stitch on the end and tried to lengthen it back out a few rows later.

Easter was yesterday! Quite fun. I helped my cousin's kids (I find it inexplicably weird that I'm old enough to have cousins that are old enough to be married and have kids, but that's what happens when siblings are born far apart) with organizing their candy post-Easter egg hunt (which was indoors, because Missouri got some fierce rain yesterday, and I think even tornado warnings in some places) and very profitable for the kids, considering there were only a couple kids and something like a hundred eggs.

In other news, downstairs my cousins and I recounted family drama like a reality show reunion episode, and one of my cousin's asked me, of all people what the sitch is on the bars in my college town. Now I don't know how I come across to you, dear reader, but do I really seem like the kind to know an in-depth laydown on all the bars in a town? I've never even been to a bar! Except during the day, when they serve subpar food that takes an hour and a half to get to you even though there are only four other people in the entire place. When I told my mum about that later, she was cackling incredulously, just like when a teacher falsely accused me of talking about drug use at school in front of impressionable young minds. Part two of today I feel like Rory Gilmore.

But beside that, I got to stuff my face and all, and it was pretty good. Now I'm just looking forward to today! Already, TWS had their comeback with Countdown, and I really like it!! From the beginning, the chorus seemed very reminiscent of "If I'm S, Will You Be My N?" from last year, which got a lot of playtime on my iPod, especially during the fall semester, so I really liked it. This song is good, just like all of their title tracks so far! (Although Last Festival wasn't nearly as good as the others--it felt like a weird yet enjoyable misstep) It doesn't reach the heights of "Hey! Hey!" for me, which was probably my favourite new song of last year, along with dearALICE's Made in Korea soundtrack songs, and it could use a bridge to take it up to a 10/10, but for me it's already a solid 8.5 or 9 out of 10.

And that's about it for today! I'm off to get dressed and have a splendid day. Toodles!

Okay, so normally I should be asleep right now, but knowing today that wasn't going to happen. And anyhow, I think right now I just need to blog to let off some steam. I'd write in my diary, but my roommate made me turn out the light, so yeah. And anywho, maybe I need to cool off before I write there. But ironically, this blog feels more informal and stream-of-consciousnessy, I guess? I wonder what it would be like for someone to compare my blog and diary to each other.

Well, anyway I've had a sucky day. And I've been stressed the past few days and I don't even know why, but that's a separate thing. I've had some weird stomachache on and off a bit the past few days, but it was really bad today to the point that I had to stay home from my afternoon classes. And I couldn't really do anything, and I was just kind of suffering. I honestly think my tea I got this morning---I like to get breakfast and tea from a local café every Monday morning---might've been part of it somehow. That was not good tea. Well anyway, I was in pain and miserable all day, and I finally get to feeling a bit better and going to a meeting of a kind of underground/unofficial k-pop club at my college. Tonight we were going to sit around and make bracelets and chit-chat, and I spent most of two hours searching through the beads to find the letters I needed to make a "Verivery" bracelet in their fandom colours. And then I f-cking lost the bracelet! So yeah, it's been a treat.

I just hope and pray tomorrow's better! And that's not getting into the rest of the drama that's happened since my last post, some of which I literally don't think I can recount on here because it's too insane for the Internet (and also I'm not sure if I should be recounting that specific stuff anyways for personal, or rather interpersonal, reasons). And I hope to be free enough to work some more on the site soon! I love y'all. Talk to y'all soon! :)