Today's been kind of a down day. Nothing really happened except for that I went to class, and disagreed with Professor Cassidy on how he explained marriage - he takes way too long on a single point and just beats it to death with a huge stick, and doesn't bother trying to make things clearer for those who ask questions.
Basically what he does is if you ask him a question that seems to contradict what he's saying, even if you just want clarification, he hits his forehead with his hand and basically seems to be saying, How could you be so stupid! The answer is this! But "This" doesn't make anything clearer than it was originally. I spent most of class being pretty frustrated. I have learned how to fluently listen to what he's saying and formulate arguments against it or questions for it in my head while playing Solitaire, and if I do that, I restrain myself from standing up and yelling all my objections at him.
After the class, after he'd basically told me my question was idiotic, one of the twins told me that he was confused too and it made me feel a little better, but I was still kind of offended.
I went to Mass and it was really nice. After Mass I ended up going down to the Spar with Clare while she bought some milk, and then I wandered back up and while she took a nap, I went to confession.
Confession with Father Luke was really nice - and I'm glad I know his name, now. He was very thoughtful and took more time with my confession and giving me advice and direction than any priest I've ever talked to in a confessional before, and I left feeling very calm, peaceful, and grateful for the sacrament. I even teared up a little for no particular reason. So I'd have to say that was the highlight of my day.
After Confession I did all my reading for tomorrow's classes but didn't even start to get around to answering the discussion questions. (I'm taking a break right now and it's already 10 PM, so if I'm even slightly prepared tomorrow, I'll be surprised).
I went to dinner, then I tried to get some money from my debit card - Gesa was supposed to activate it for me to withdraw some cash today, but as I was walking down to the bank I got sidetracked by Joe, who likes to talk a ton about himself and how sporty and buff and strong he is, and then by the time I ran down there, I put in my correct PIN, but it told me there was an error, and rejected my card.
So I tried a couple other PINs, and when they were rejected I ran back to the Kartause for Wifi to text dad, and then ran back to the bank to try and get the card to work with another PIN. By this time I think that the time period had expired.
I stood outside the bank catching Wifi from a restaurant next door for about twenty minutes texting Dad and trying to figure it out. By that time it was starting to get darker, and while Gaming is a fairly safe, small town, there were a couple people staring at me and a couple came out as if they wanted to ask me if everything was OK, because I was really upset after running back and forth a couple of times and getting no results and trying to meet a deadline, so I sat down on the edge of a step.
After a bit, a couple of guys drove up and parked, and they bought some food at the grocery store next door, but then they ended up loitering around where I was, eating their food and staring at me, and they walked back and forth past me a couple of times. Eventually one of them pulled his phone out and called someone, and since I had no idea what they were saying since it was in German, I decided that since my card had failed yet again, it was time to get out of there before the cops showed up or something.
To top it off, tonight I was supposed to play a chess game with David, but he got himself locked out of his room and he's been off taking care of that or something, so that's a no-go for the evening. I'm not quite sure where he went actually.
So I'm just sitting here answering some discussion questions for class tomorrow... I'm pretty tired, I might turn in early. Today's been a disappointing day.
The only upside is that the RA who did our room check today told me that I did a good job cleaning out the shower and the metal in the bathroom, which is something they're really picky about.
They'd better appreciate it. I scrubbed that dang bathroom harder than I've ever scrubbed a bathroom before.
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