Odd. Things have gone well all day.

Maria e-mailed me - yeyyyyy! I feel a lot better now. For a while, I was depressed, because she's practically my only friend back in Sweden, and well... that kind of says it all how big of a loss it would have been to lose touch with her :(

Tobbe, my cousin back home e-mailed me. I don't know - he's always been the cousin I was the closest to, even though he can be a real pain in the ass. There are always memories of him and me being watched by my grannie as kids, and building pirate ships out of her couch pillows. Sometimes he'd have a fight with me, be mean, and I'd start to cry and run off into the garden and mope, and he'd run out on the porch and start making faces and other clown things to make me smile again. It's just so very, very nice to have this direct link to my family.

Did I mention Maria e-mailed? Hooray 8)

I finally had a brief encounter with a professor who gave me an (i) last semester for my World Societies II class. He asked me to come by his office soon, and we'd talk it through. "Me and Prof. Diem talked about your grade last semester, and we both felt that we'd rather give you an incomplete, than a lower grade." Now, in my head, that means they think I'm not completely stupid, just wasn't performing as well as I could, and -maybe- will give me a project to hand in and get an allright grade as opposed to an F?

I was told by my supervisor that she handed my job application in - I may get paid for this lab monitoring job as soon as next friday/the week after that! yey! Money!! The only slight downside is that I am forced to stay at school till 5 pm 4 days/week, but hey... I'll live, and it's what I've done for 2 full semesters anyways, for free ;)

I had two quizes today, and for the first time -ever-, I did fairly well on both, because I actually did my homework, albeit half-assed. Ghod. Good quizzes and an extra credit assignment in one week. Good start, at least :)

We're going to see Shakespear in love tomorrow. YEYY! For the first time in ages, I'm actually gunna see a movie I've been saying I wanna see for ages! Now there's only TheThinRedLineHurlyBurlyElizabethShe'sAllThatandabillionmore to go!

Oh how sweet. My advisor just told me he'd be happy to give me a ride home, AND that I don't need to hurry - he can go whenever. Phew :) Saving a buck! WoOoo! Also, he's helped me a bit with my research project. I don't know. He's not really my advisor anymore, but he was the one I was assigned last spring, and his office is close to the lab, plus he teaches a movie criticism class, so we can talk movies. It's really fun to know him, because as I don't have him in any of my classes, I don't have to feel like I'm sucking up, plus I can ask him for help should I severely need it, because he's one of the English professors. And he tried to get me to read Moby Dick once. Yeah, right. :P

My mother gave me the phone number for my grandmother last weekend. I still haven't called. No. No real excuse. I think I'm just... scared. I told my mom, and she understood and isn't putting any pressure on me for not calling. It's just so hard - I haven't spoken to my grandmother since 4 days before her horrid car accident. I know she is doing a lot better. I want to talk to her. But... *shrug* My mother warned me that when I do call, I will have to ignore things granny say, about wanting to go home, or asking for her parents. It's just... scary.

I think it's just slightly weird the way people say bless you and gesundheit etc when people sneeze, but blatantly ignores you if you cough. Is it because sneezing is cuter? I don't see a lot of difference between my elephant sneezes, and my mammoth coughs. "bless you on coughing up your lung" might seem strange, I suppose, and we rarely want to think of mucus and phlegm and all those icky things. Ah well. Poor, neglected coughs. Bless you.