Regardless, I apologize, and I will try to make it up to you as soon as I can.
On July 11th, I slept until noon. I was up late as well, and I suppose I could relate that in my account, but there wasn't much to relate, aside from the fact that Rube and two of his friends had visited the evening before to play frisbee, and that they'd wanted more people than just me, so I'd called Dawson, who was with Gabriel, and we spent like ten minutes about a hundred yards apart, waving at each other without the other one seeing, on the phone going "I'm doing jumping jacks." "I can't see you" "Seriously, I'm right here!" while Rube and friends looked confused.
We eventually rounded up a larger group of people, but then those PROMYS jerks proceeded to kick our butts, which was somewhat bad. Apparently Rube's whole long distance running and good hand-eye coordination thing makes him good at frisbee. How very frustrating.
Anyways, back to the 11th. I got up at noon, and then my wonderful family came to visit about an hour later. My sisters (Shelby in particular) were very appreciative of the ball pit, which is understandable, considering that it is completely and utterly awesome. Eventually the family left, and I went to W20 with a backpack full of papers and settled down to read.
About a half an hour later, I felt like complete crap, so I walked back to Simmons to recuperate. I was so hot after the walk that I lay down on the couch on the first floor and refused to move. My tylenol, however, was upstairs. It was an extremely unfortunate situation.
At some point, Teresa came over and asked if I wanted her to buy me some medicine. I said that I had some upstairs, I just hurt too much to move, so I gave her my key and she went up to get them.
However, Teresa is an international student, and she didn't know the names of pills, so she brought down my entire bag. Unfortunately, the entire bag consisted of a giant pink plastic Victoria's Secret monstrosity, because it was the only thing my mother could find in the house that was opaque and large enough to put food in as well. Larry, who was on the couch opposite me, took one look at the bag and began to laugh. Teresa left, I rolled over and ignored Larry, and then I thought about how to get the bag upstairs without either moving or letting too many people see it.
A few minutes later, someone shoved their hands over my eyes. They felt squishy, warm, and biggish, and there is a limited number of people who would do such a thing to me, so I growled "Nicholas" in an angry voice. The hands immediately went away.
It wasn't Nicholas.
"Oh my god, I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else," said the boy, who was, I think, one of the MITES.
"Yeah, I figured."
"Sorry."
I shrugged.
"This is really awkward."
"Yeah."
"Like, really awkward."
"Yeah." Suddenly, I had an idea. "Hey, do you want to redeem your awkwardness?"
"Depends what I have to do."
"Can you bring this bag to my room for me?"
"Okay."
So, I gave him the bag and my key, and away he went.
Larry rolled over to look at me. "Did you seriously just give him your room key?"
"Yes?"
"You trust him?"
I shrugged. "I guess so."
"Why?"
"Why not?"
"You don't know him!"
"I dunno, I just trust people. Maybe it's stupid, but I do."
"Oh."
Larry and I looked at each other, then turned to look at the elevator, then we both began to laugh somewhat hysterically.
We were still laughing when, fifteen minutes later, the boy returned, my key in his hand, apologizing for how long the elevator took.
I continued to lie on the couch and moan for quite some time. At some point, I called Dawson to beg for food, who called Ululani and got him to bring me a bagel. I got first Nell, then Bing to sit on my legs and keep them warm, and when Dawson showed up I got use of his towel as a blanket, and Maxwell brought my my ipod, and the moral of the story is that if one moans about how crappy they feel for long enough, people will do nice things.
Yay!
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