The Longest Day

This was from 9/11/10. The next day ended up being A LOT better, and I will post about that sometime shortly. But I figured I may as well post this now, having worked on it. And while 9/12 was a really good day, the day I wrote this still sucked so I may as well post it. Many of my concerns did not turn out the way I feared today. So this post is in a way no longer applicable, but I suppose it doesn't hurt to remember the crappy days too.

Well, today was certainly not that great. I got up, showered and brushed my teeth, and only left my room after that for food or to use the bathroom. . . Did a lot of staring, TV, Computer, DS, walls even. Probably a low point since I've been here.

Yesterday was good, at least by comparison to most days. The majority of the day was as mediocre-bad as the rest. But I decided to buy tickets to see Rob Riggle perform in the IU auditorium that night. I considered going by myself but ended up, (due to some prodding) textin Rahul and seeing if he was interested. So I bought the tickets, since I was at the office, knowing he'd pay me back. The opening comic did a 40 minute set and was surprisingly funny. The opener was a producer for The Daily Show, and Riggle was on the Daily Show and has been in movies and things. They actually took sometime to research IU, just a bit at least. The opener made jokes about the residence halls, knew that the crazy dorms are McNutt and Briscoe. Riggle made jokes about what a Hoosier is, leading to one of my favorite lines of the night, totally unplanned.

"So do you know what a Hoosier is? - Riggle
Some guy in the crowd "A Hoosier is a person that's better than a boiler"

He had a good dynamic with the crowd, and kept things going. He caught a girl on her phone in the front and got off the stage and was gonna make her read a text, when she claimed she was just checking it he asked for her phone and then held it up and 'read' "Rob Riggle looks so freaking hot right now. . . .Alright, carry on." During a Q and A he and the opener spoke to a guys friend over the phone for his birthday.

Needless to say he was quite funny. 2 things impressed me. A girl raised her hand during q&a to thank them for coming because otherwise her dad wanted her to go see Joel Osteen in Indy. That was an opportunity to make fun of Osteen or Christianity, and the girl was obviously fishing for a shot at Olsteen, but Riggle actually stuck up for him a bit, and said he was a good guy and that he'd read his book.


After the show we walked back towards Jordan Ave and saw them out on the ramp of the auditorium, just sitting out there, smoking. So we kinda slowed down and saw a group of 3 approach them and after a minute decided, what the heck? So we went up there, hung back, and after a girl had her picture taken I asked if it was alright if we took pictures too. Rob replied "It is always alright to take a picture." So I got to take a pic with Rob and the other guy, (who's name I need to google) and so did Rahul. I almost left him hanging but turned around and gave Rob the high five/hand shake. He was very cool about it, and it is nice to see someone who is fairly famous, and not a dick about it. He was more than happy to speak to the students.

So those 3 hours or so were really awesome. And meeting him completely made the night, Rahul and I were both pretty incredulous walking away. But of course, after that I had to return to my room, and deal with more drama.

Today, on the other hand, was awful. Oh nothing bad happened, really, but, NOTHING happened. I left my room for . . .maybe a total of an hour, MAYBE. This is the worst part, still. Compounding the problem is that I don't have any desire to be social. I'm not social at all. If people talk to me I just give them awkward replies to whatever they may ask, or just mumble and get away with saying nothing. And I don't particularly like being in situations where I don't know what to do. At all. It took me over a week and a half to go to the Mexican place in the food court, because I didn't know how one went about ordering. Yeah. That bad.

So tomorrow I'm going to a new church, by myself. And I know that they'll make an effort to welcome a new person, especially a college kid. But the people coming up to me and asking questions and talking is only going to make me feel awkward. And I'll probably mutter and give awkward responses again and come off as a dick. And then I have an Objectivist meeting at Qdoba's. For which I don't know anyone. So even though I theoretically should connect with these people, it's entirely possible I'll get to the restaurant and not be able to find them quickly and just feel awkward and leave. In situations where I know I won't know exactly what I'm doing, it's entirely possible that I'll skip them, I usually do. If not for the fact that I'm so desperate to meet people, I'd probably skip the meeting. Until I'm actually there, there will be a slight possibility that I will just skip it.

All non-believers stand aside in fear
A new day's marching through the door
How could you ever think you'd make it here?
Did it bleed? Was it sore?
Through the struggles you've endured

You've come so far from innocence
Provided all the consequence
Only what does it matter now?

The Running Free - Coheed and Cambria