Back to Willamette

Yesterday, or I guess now that it's 2am that it would be the day before yesterday, I journeyed back to college.

I was pretty happy and excited to go back the night before, plus my sleep schedule was messed up, so I didn't get much sleep Friday night. I had planned on going to bed early because I had to be up early, so I went to sleep around midnight. The problem was, was that I woke up at 2:30am and couldn't sleep any more. So I laid in bed until 7am, then I got up and took a shower.

The reason I had to get up so early anyway was because I was going to go see the Harry Potter Exhibition with my Dad and brother before I left for school. So when my brother showed up at my dad's house, I packed the car with all of my college stuff, and then we took off to the Pacific Science Center. My dad is a member of this special club there so we got to have a free breakfast and free admission to the Harry Potter Exhibit. The breakfast is always good so Travis (My brother) and I always look forward to it. I was also particularly excited for the exhibit and so within 15 minutes of sitting down to eat, I was already up and ready to go.

We wandered up to the exhibit and we were the first ones in line. They gave us little remotes that would, if we held them up to our ear, would tell us about different things in the exhibit. When it was finally time to enter, everyone all went into the exhibit together and we crowded around the sorting hat. The lady standing next to the sorting hat called for three volunteers, who in turn were sorted into Griffindor, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff. Then we moved on into a huge room that was filled with several TV screens mounted on the walls. They played various scenes from the different movies and when it was done the wall behind us opened up into the actual exhibit. It took my family and me about half an hour to go through the exhibit and it was really awesome. My favorite part was standing in front of Voldemort's costume and hearing him talk to me right behind my head (they had a focused sound spot). It was pretty awesome.

After we left the exhibit, we drove back to my dad's house to drop my brother off and then we were off again, this time to Willamette. The car ride went by fairly fast because my dad and I were talking the whole time. I always like car rides with him because that's the time when we're really able to catch up. I love my dad so much, and being away from home makes me realize just how much he loves me. Even though I didn't grow up in his household, I know that he's probably played the biggest part in molding me to be who I am today.

When we finally arrived in Salem around 2pm we had a couple of errands to run so we went to Costco so I could get some frosted mini wheats, and then off to Wal Mart so that I could get toiletries. After the errands were done my dad took me to my school and I unloaded the car. Then I hugged my dad goodbye and went in to settle down.

I was the second one back, so the normally rowdy dorm was super quiet. I decided to just unpack all of my stuff and hope that more people would show up by the time I was done. As I finished one more person showed up but it wasn't that much to interest me. I took my laptop anyway though and went out into the lounge to hang out. I watched as slowly people started to arrive. By the end of the day there were plenty of people to hang out with and so we went into the TV room and played Glee Karaoke. After a couple of hours playing the game it was 2 am and so I went to bed and slept for 12 hours.

Overall it was a pretty awesome day, there were a few details though that stand out that I haven't mentioned yet.

The first of which is the fact that my friend Kitten from the first semester informed me that she wants to distance herself from me more this semester. She kept talking about how she doesn't want to come back, and then to have her tell me that makes me think that it's partially my fault, and I'm pretty sure in her mind it is. When she finally arrived at the dorm though, she acted no differently than she had before. I really don't know what to make of it yet.

The second thing that happened is that someone who used to be my friend but then became completely psycho and crazy decided to text me and ask to be friends again. Drama had been a really good friend of mine for six years prior, when all of the sudden she decided that everything I did was out to get her. She believed that I hated her and that I told everyone else to hate her too. When it got so bad that every time I talked to her it seemed to just end up in a big fight with both of us crying, I decided to just stop talking to her. A month after I decided that her boyfriend wrote incredibly cruel things about my boyfriend and me on a friends wall, and so my other friends boyfriend sent him death threats (he also had been slandered). The parents then decided to get involved, and even though I hadn't said anything to Drama in a month, they came to my house when I wasn't even home and yelled at my parents. They said that I did really bitchy things to Drama, even though I hadn't done any of them. I decided to continue not speaking to Drama, and life got a little easier for me. Drama at one point demanded that I take down all of my pictures of her because she didn't want to be associated with me and I refused because that would mean taking down basically every picture from high school. She got pissed and just decided to block me. I didn't hear from her after that until last night.

Drama informed me last night that she was changing. That she was on heavy anti-depressant drugs and that she saw a therapist several times a week. Right now I'm not sure whether to trust her or not, but I've decided to give her a chance. I never stopped caring about her, and I really truly do hope that she's changed.