When I say Hillshire, you say Farms!

So tired.
Stunt Night is over. Awards were won, fun was had. It was a long hard process, but I enjoyed the whole thing.
Still a lot of work to do this semester. I need to NOT fail Biblcical Backgrounds and to PASS British Literature. I also need to figure out by 3 PM tomorrow what I'll be doing this summer, and then find a place to live in the fall.
Okay, wish I had more time and better thoughts to more properly update. Stunt Night was good, though, that's worth mentioning.
All right, I need to gets going.
Night.

Take a sad song, and make it better

Spring Break, so far, in a nutshell.

Sunday -- church and drive to Tucumcari, NM
Monday -- Grandma sick, lot of spanish studying done, trip to Sonic
Tuesday -- More spanish, go for a walk, fall asleep to Jericho
Wednesday -- Early morning, mom sick, go for a run, dinosaur museum, Gilmore Girls, me sick, 5 hour nap
Thursday -- me still not-so-great, 8 hour drive home, Mavs lose to Celtics

So far, meh, oh well. There's not much to report here. Except that I like The Beatles and that I threw up.
Hope to update more later.
Night

It's gettin' hot in here

So, apparently we're doing some thing here at FBC to reduce costs and save money on things, or something of that nature, because I've been getting emails for a few days now about helpful ways to not spend the church's money.
Yeah.
I'm sure I was told somewhere along the line what these emails are for, but I've long since forgotten, so I won't attempt to fill in the why.
Anyway, here's the one I got today, well, synopsized.

" Today’s tip for reducing operational expenditures is to dress appropriately for the seasons and the comfort level of your work area. Keep a sweater in your office instead of adjusting the thermostat.
According to Baylor University, (for heating) you will save about 3% on your heating bill for every 1° that you lower the thermostat setting. For example, if you normally keep your thermostat set at 75° all the time, and you lower it by 3° to 72°, you will save about 9% (3x3%) on your heating bill. In other words, you will save about 9 cents for every dollar you spend on heating costs.
The opposite is true for cooling. So, adjusting your body temperature rather than the room temperature could easily allow for more money to go to missions and ministries."

Then, a bit later I received this email:

So, a 3° change in the thermostat can save us 9% in energy. If we were able to reduce energy consumption by 9% across the board, we would add an additional $18,530 to the church’s budget. No additional tithing required!

Umm, I'd love to unpack my thoughts about this, but I won't. Just know that I find it funny.
Simply funny :)

It's the end of the world as we know it

But I don't really feel fine.
I'm going to have to say something about this before it kills me inside and out. It's really bugging me.
One of my friends has, apparently, had a crush on my best friend for...quite a while now, evidently. I had no idea about it until sometime midway through last semester when I accidentally stumbled upon it. I shook it off and said it wouldn't change things and still kept on making every attempt at keeping the relationships normal.
Well, some time early this semester things got weird. All of a sudden, my best friend's schedule cleared right up and now he has plenty of time to spend hanging out with people. Well, seeing the opportunity and doing what any normal person with a crush would do, my other friend began to call my best friend nonstop to hang out.
Where does this leave me? Screwed, pretty much.
My best friend became free about the same time my year got really hectic, and all of a sudden I don't ever get to see anyone anymore. It gets worse, from my perspective, when every time I stumble upon either of these two friends they seem to be not far apart.
I don't want or mean to take away from their friendship, but I'm not an idiot. She's got it bad for him, and so she's going to make more of an effort for him, especially since she knows he's available and isn't tied down with class and other commitments on campus.
I'm happy that he's got free time, and I'm happy that she's getting to spend so much time with, evidently, the guy she's been dreaming of for quite some time now. The only thing is, I've been in the middle of this watching it happen, and now I'm left out. I've tried talking about it and addressing this specifically and all I've gotten is a "No, Geoff, things won't change, we'll still be friends." And yet, you know what? We're not. She does not even call me anymore.
Oh well. I guess if I wasn't a good enough friend for her to keep me around when things get tough for me and sweet for her, then I'm better off without her, but the thing is I really thought we were.
I'm not saying all these things to sign off a friendship that used to be pretty good, I'm just trying to get my feelings out. I've tried talking about this with several people, and quite honestly nobody wants to listen, or the people who do listen to me won't do anything about it to help me. I'm not fishing for pity and sympathy or encouragement or compliments or anything real specific of that nature, I just want to get it out and off my chest. Because right now, as it stands, I feel as if I've got one real friend left that I can talk with. And unfortunately, for the both of us, I can't tell him this secret. Because it's about him.
That
Just
Sucks