Kicking off the Break

I think I'm still sick after taking two different kinds of antibiotics. Ugh...I think the infection has been lingering, at times in latency, for years now. It doesn't want to go away quietly. A pox on it! Anyway, I'm now officially on my spring break. Like usual, no big plans at all. I never have much money when it comes around. And so, I'm thinking to save up a little fund, just for next year's spring break (my last!...finally). I vow it will be a good one. For now, I'm just enjoying spending some time with the family. I want to perhaps do a bit of writing as well, which I never really get around to besides letters and school papers.

Honestly, I think that the major writer's block I have on some projects is due to the fact that I have recently become disenchanted with fiction. Oh, no, that's not entirely right. No, to say "disenchanted with fiction" is to say...something I would never hope to truly feel. I take it back. What I mean is that I am more inspired by nonfiction lately (last couple of years). I actually bought this book a couple summers ago from the USU bookstore on writing nonfiction. I haven't read it yet, actually. Half my bookshelf is unread. I like to buy books, hoping to get around to reading them. I hate renting them from the library, as I love to write comments in the margins...occasionally just a "haha" if I find something amusing. It's fun to write comments, and quotes, etc. Actually, my "nonfiction writing" is probably half quotations that come to my head as I think about ideas. I'd really like to shake that habit, I mean, shouldn't I be writing the quotable? But, maybe my writing will just be an enthusiastic account of my reading. Fine enough, as long as it makes me happy, and helps me down the line somehow...to remember.

My weekend was pretty fun, I guess. That date was a bit weird, but only because it was a group date...that didn't seem like a date, and then it did again. Somehow I didn't end up talking to the guy that asked me much at all, or riding in his car, and another guy ended up paying for three dinners. His, mine, and his "date's"...I suppose. Suffice to say that any group date of a somewhat confusing nature is not much of one, so I don't feel quite as bad. Er, yeah.

Speaking of group dates, I just went to the Red Carpet Date Night at the Capital building last night. Matt was going with a group from his ward that didn't have dates, and I came along too. I love that building! It is so beautiful. Especially when I saw it a couple months ago when it was snowing. Really, the only dances I have been to have been in gyms and the like. Not the best atmosphere. So, I loved going there.

The most hilarious part was when that horrible song Cotton-Eyed Joe started up and my brother and I happened to both take a very conspicuous if not wild dash away from our respective places on the dance floor only to meet at the stairwell that had yellow tape preventing our escape. Unfortunately, living in Utah, there is too much country played at some dances. But, if it pleases the crowd...whatever...make the morons happy. Haha, you know, I don't suspect that calling country-lovers morons will come off too offensive as none of my family members or good friends are into it at all. What an irrational love of bad music. I did dance to a country slow song, but, you can't refuse a guy based on the music. I have before, though. Tisk, tisk, I was a jerk. But the song was really bad! And he knew me, so he understood my repulsion to country.

I actually thought about a dance that my friend Patrick held a couple years back, and remember that it was incredibly fun because I got to submit my own music. It counts so much! Even more than marble pillars. But that's just my gripe because I don't listen to what most people do. Although, I do listen to popular music, only decades behind. I kinda wish I was into lesser known or underground artists (same thing?). Access to the unpopular is, of course, less accessible. I wish that Logan had a lot of local bands and shows. There is a Battle of the Bands in a few weeks though, which is free. I'll be there! And the winner plays at Eve 6. I might go to that too, especially if I like the band that wins the battle. Game on!