Not doing homework

I should be studying, or reading, or writing something I'm sure. But I'm not. And it feels good.
Things that have been happening:

Messed up my car on the S-curves in Grand Rapids during the big snowstorm last Sunday. The rim is ruined, the alignment is way off (holding the wheel at a 45 degree angle to go straight is totally not right), and the tire is losing air. The dude at the shop said it takes like 3 days to get the wheel in that it needs, so I'm stuck carless for like a week. That hurts. Plus, my poor car is all sad and broken.

Gave a presentation in biochem (pretty much my first speech in a class in a long time), and realized that this teaching thing really helps my public speaking. True, I stared at the power-point slides most of the time, and realized in the middle of a sentence that what I was saying made no sense at all, and I totally couldn't use the stupid laser pointer thing, but the actually speaking part went rather well. I used to get all shaky and nervous, and spitty and stuff, but this time I just got up there, totally confident in the information, said what needed to be said and was fine. It felt really good.

I took my fist jazz class exam late because I was sick when everyone else took it. I totally sucked it up. True, in the grand scheme of things I got like a B, but a B in a dance class feels totally like failing to me. I had this wierd panic attack and coudln't remember the combinations to save my life, and kept doing that thing where when you mess up you make a stupid face (a real give-away). I just freaked, which I haven't done in a dance-type situation pretty much ever. Wierd. But today we had our mid-term, and it went much better. I knew what I was doing, I didn't panic, I felt confident. That's good, I'm back on track.

Michael is out of town until Sunday, so there's quite a lot of house fun planned. I'm getting a massage on Friday (oh man do I need it, it takes me like a full minute to stand upright because my back is so tight), then the wonderful Jennica is preparing a roommate dinner for Kath, her, and me. I'm totally excited. Then I think we're having a house viewing of Napolean Dynamite, which is hilarious and will be super fun to watch with these girls. Then Saturday, I have my first rehearsal for Chelsea's piece, in which I'm a little kid, which should be fun. Plus, I might actually get some sleep in the next couple days without Mike around to distract me. Good wishes to him on his big fellowship interviews.

Probably other things have been happening, but that's way enough for right now. Leave a comment with anything else exciting you remember happening to me :)