March 25th- DAY TWENTY FIVE

Today was THE ABSOLUTE worst day of this immersion project so far. You would think that with only five days left, things would be easy. No matter how often I tell myself there's only a little bit of time left, the more people seem to tempt me. I only had one class today, my 8 am math class, and afterwards I just came back to my room and slept until lunch. After lunch, I usually hang out with my other half, Morgan. However, she went on a field trip to Missouri so I was all alone all day. My room never felt so boring. My computer felt worthless. There was nothing worth watching on TV and my roommate was busy having a life. I watched so many episodes of Confessions: Animal Hoarding, I could predict that nearly every show would show someone with lots of cats and another with lots of dogs. There was a rare episode where a man hoarded chickens; that was considerably more interesting. I accidentally did my math homework that's not due until April 8th. Even worse than that, I didn't have any meal swipes left for the week and it is during Lent now, so eating a filling inexpensive meal downstairs became near impossible.

Finally after sitting around bored for eight straight hours, I talked Patrick into going to IHOP with me for some pancakes. It was nice after all that time alone with nothing to do to go out with a friend. We took it one step further and stopped at Dairy Queen for some blizzards. Really that alone made my whole day worthwhile. Lots of calories, but I didn't care. To show really how desperate I was for something to do, after IHOP and Dairy Queen, we came back to Patrick's apartment and I volunteered to clean his room and fold his roommate's clothes. Most people would say that this is a terrible way to spend a Friday night on a college campus, but it was just nice to have some company and not be alone. I'm ready for Thursday night...well really Wednesday to come so I can count down the hours and be able to cradle my cell phone between my two hands and let my thumbs dance across the keyboard. And really, I would like to see all the disgusting pictures of myself that people have put on Facebook and tagged me in so I couldn't untag them. We'll see how embarrassing that is when I get that back. As it is a little after midnight now, I guess there's officially four days left. :)