September 23, 2002
Happy Autumn!
Summer is over and it is back to school for Shane today. Poor guy. I have to work the next three nights, which will probably stress him out a little bit more than he is already. It was kind of funny last night. If you have read his blog, you have heard about the little cricket that won't let him sleep. I get frequent updates about the cricket, but last night, I was able to see Shane in action. Twice, he got up, in his Harry Potter boxers, and went outside to whack the tree his little buddy lives in. The cricket would stop chirping for a few minutes. Apparently the second time was long enough to allow Shane to fall asleep. I can hear the cricket when I get to sleep at night, and it isn't really loud enough to bother me. I can remember when I was a kid having a chorus of crickets outside my window and burying my head under my pillow so that I could fall asleep. I slept twelve hours last night. But I only slept four hours yesterday morning.
Right before getting into bed last night, the phone rang. It was Amanda. I was surprised to hear from her. She has moved and started grad school. From the impression I got, she doesn't really like it. She had 70 pages of reading for Philosophy to do for this morning, but couldn't stop thinking about me, so gave me a call. We talked for about five to ten minutes and she had to go because she and her roommates were going out. (What about Philosophy???) Apparently, she has a pretty serious boyfriend, Andrew. I am supposed to call her back later. We haven't seen each other in over a year and have probably only talked about a half dozen times since then.
We went to church yesterday morning and it was the first time I really felt comfortable, I guess. I mean, especially at the part when they say "stand up and say hi to someone next to you".... I don't like that part. No one wants to meet me. Yesterday, we met this nice girl, then had two people we know come up from across the room and say hi. It was nice. I am so used to knowing so many people at church, that you have to drag yourself away when the pastor starts talking. We didn't make it to our life group on Thursday night, which is a bummer (I was falling asleep at six o'clock), and we won't go for two weeks now. There is a couple there that wants to get together with us. I need to call them. They are cool and it would be fun. I need to just do it, but for some reason, it stresses me out. Okay, I'll do it this week....
Next Wednesday, I am leaving for Vista. Mandy is having a baby shower and I am heading down there for it. I am looking forward to it, but I feel a little bad for Shane. He has to stay here for school and work. He'll be lonely and hungry. I guess it will be like I am gone at work for a really long time. I think I will just order him some pizzas to hold him over and call him all of the time. I wish I could take him with me. I'll miss him.