Day 1

Today started with me waking up packing the last minute things and then proceeding to take a shower, now I tell you that to tell you this, taking the shower caused me to have to unpack some of the last minute things and it’s also the reason I didn’t eat breakfast (-1 meal). Then I took my stuff downstairs and I thought for sure I could count on j to be late…she wasn’t, so I didn’t have time to eat lunch…NOT her fault (-2 meals). So I get my stuff out to her car and she tells me she has to come back towards my house after the conference to drop off some other people, who we were also picking up. Now in all fairness I’m going to assume (yes, I’m assuming) she only found that out recently and therefore didn’t have time to tell me. So I could (and did) leave some of my stuff at home. Then we picked up the other two (of course M was already with us, slightly shocked but not really). Now that we had everyone and we were on our way I started to realize there were quite a few other things I could have left at home, for instance the glass bottles that are in the back of her car, that I’m afraid might crack if it (they) gets too cold. Anyway we got to the conference safe and sound, some of us for sound than other but all safeJ. We got through orientation, registration, and rooming (after about 2 hours), made it up to our room and I finally got to talk to J, a real (kinda) one-on-one conversation. It was nice, then before I knew it, it was off to find M for dinner and then to the first big meeting. Mike Erie is our main speaker; he evidently has a wiki page so look him up. Josh Coy is our host/emcee again; he’s a fun guy so that should work out fine. Once the big meeting was over it was off for some campus time, but I was sooo ready for bed, I went anyway  but was not having anything to do with the very extraverted game Royce wanted us to play, even knowing most of the people here from our campus I just wasn’t in the mood to participate and I never normally am, I did talk to a few people  though and even a guy I’ve only met once, I think. This was also the point in time where they (the leaders) decided to tell us they want to go out to eat during the middle of the bowl game on Saturday,  now you guys not me, and I’m pretty sure you can guess where I’ll be from 3:30pm – 7:30pm on Saturday, not at dinner that’s for sure. Then we decided it was time for more food and headed to Steak ‘N’ Shake, which is where we (from what I’ve heard, it’s tradition) normally spend our campus time the first night but I guess the leaders  wanted to shake things up a bit. We waited for about or over an hour and were there until 12:30am but I think we sat down somewhere around 11:30pm so we didn’t really take that long. After eating a few of waited around for the others, actually I wanted to talk about eating first, lol. That was interesting. M&J of course sat together and I was standing with them and a friend of theirs (or his, I think they’re all friends, not quite sure) and it kind of felt like at first we were on a double date but their friend and I had been set up, but it turned out okay in the end and nothing like that. Although I wouldn’t mind being set up, I don’t know how comfortable I would be with it being with a guy 3 years older than me. Anyway after our late dinner (more like desert) we waited around for some of the others and someone along the way had the bright idea to start a game of tag, throughout downtown Indy at 12:30am. Not the best idea if you ask me but they seemed to be having a good time so I didn’t say anything , we made it back to the hotel and all promptly decided it was time for bed.