Learning to Live with (500) Days of Summer...

YES! xD
My valiant, crazy plan to become a social butterfly is slowly working!

Today I spent the evening with a girlfriend, Jane, and we saw the amazing movie (500) Days of Summer. We then walked around and ate Ben & Jerry's ice cream, before shopping for a solid hour together in the unique stores at our town's pavillion. To be honest, Jane was quite surprised to receive a call from me two days ago, asking if she would like to hang out with me, since I've been in Vancouver for the past two weeks. And I myself was quite nervous about how tonight would play out, since we've never actually done something out of school together, just the two of us. It seems like a stampede of friends would always be with us, blocking the chance of making this idea possible.

But I found tonight quite an accomplishment. Being in BC for the past eight weeks, I've been living with my three older, and extremely social cousins. One of them, the only girl of the three, is actually the most amazingly outgoing and social person I've ever met in my life. She has the envious gift of easily becoming the life of any party, no matter how low or high her competition might be there. She's never had an awkward moment, and is the easiet to talk to. Over the weeks, I've taken careful notice of how exactly she has mastered this amazing skill, and made useful mental notes on the subject as well. And tonight I unleashed them on my first experiment! I was a more outgoing, talkative, cheery, and easy-going person than I had ever been in my life in front of Jane. Not only do I think I was different in front of her than ever before, but I know it: as I dropped her off at her pristine house just half an hour ago, she hugged me, and said, "Wow Alina, I had so much fun tonight, I don't know why we haven't done this before!" Her saying made my evening, if not my day, and has given me a small, tiny margin of encouragement to continue this quest to become more likeable.

Overall, today has been a lovely day, really. I simply can't complain. It's yet another day in which I go to bed in peace, knowing the ones I care for dearly are near me and in acceptable health and temporarily good-tempered. I woke up with only five hours of sleep in the early morning to tutor my adorable tutoree, was paid twenty dollars for my work, watched television (a luxury to me), spent time on the computer (a LOT of time, really), straightened my hair, and prepared for Jane's. I did have a short arguement with my parents (more my father, actually) about whether I should continue piano with a teacher or at a Music Academy, spent a good half-hour to forty minutes battling familiar tiny ants that had flooded the bathroom floor, and.. well that's about all I could weakly complain about. My mom's in a bad mood right now though, so I guess that could be a tiny stain on my otherwise clean t-shirt. But maybe her bad mood's really not that bad, maybe I'm reading her wrong... or maybe not. Literally, since I have no intention whatsoever to go confront her about her current emotions, only time will tell.

Alright, I'm going to stop here. I'm not very tired, but I have to go rot my brain on other internet sites, you see ;)

Until next time..

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