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One of my new friends here at Lesher, I'm convinced, has super-low esteem. She's admittedly socially awkward, which I totally understand and can empathize with--I've been there and still find myself there. She tends to think people don't want her around though. We were all hanging out earlier, me on my laptop trying to write an essay, Sophie on her laptop looking up reference pics for a nail art project, and she asked Kymberly if she wanted to go get her laptop so she wouldn't need to get on the internet with her cell phone. Kym took this as "Go back to your room, no one wants you here". It's frustrating Sophie, because Kymberly gets like this a lot. What's kind of amusing to me is that Sophie's major is psychology. ^^; I know that doesn't mean she's not allowed to lose patience, but it's interesting putting the two concepts together in my mind. Kym's a really sweet girl, she just needs to learn to read people better. She strikes me as the type that has a small circle of close friends, and she gets along great with those friends, but plop her into a situation with new people and she clams up. It doesn't help that she's a new transfer here this semseter. She'll get better, though. We're all heading out for dinner in a bit.

As time passes, I still find myself worried about Mass Media. Originally my fears were with DVP, but after a couple of weeks, I feel better about it. I still need to learn a lot, of course--camerawork is not a strength right now--but I'm not as worried about that class, even not totally knowing what I'm doing, as I am about MM. Another girl who's in both classes with me (there are four of us, if I remember correctly) feels the same way. The MM professor is just so detailed about things. I'm not sure my essay-writing skills are up to it. The good thing is her essays are only a page. The bad thing is she says she won't read past that, so it's a matter of getting the important points down and discussed within that one page. That gets tricky.

I totally got some black and gold nail polish and painted Triforces on my thumbs. XD They were originally going to be on all ten fingers, but I decided they'd be too hard to paint on. I need a template. Sophie's painting Ghirahim's diamonds on hers. We're such geeks. She watches me play Skyward Sword, and we've both developed unhealthy obsessions with Ghirahim. I'm playing through Hero Mode right now. It's been an extended wake-up call. Kind of like sprinting through Halo like you don't give a crap, and then playing on Legendary. XD;;

We went rollerskating at the town community center last night. Holy CRAP. I haven't done it in forever, and I took a couple of nasty spills. I think I bruised the bottom of the palm of my hand, but I'm not sure. It took me a while to sort of get comfortable, but I need to work on my balance and turning. Poor Sophie had never skated before and clung to the walls while we were there. It was fun, though. We're gonna go again sometime. I got to know Sophie and Kym's friend Becca (Becks), and she's awesome. She found it awesome that I'm nearly 30 and went rollerskating at a community center with some college students, to be surrounded by kids younger than 18. She also got this freaking delicious milkshake from Sheetz that I didn't even know existed, and we shared it. I should not have found out about that. I'm going to very pointedly ignore it when I go in there. I permit myself one a month. They're really good.

This song. <3 I bought the album on iTunes and have been playing this one pretty much exclusively, although most of the album's great. (There's one song that I can't stand that plays right before this one.) The song's on repeat now. It loops perfectly. There's this little 8-bit riff in it that REALLY appeals to me.