Kent made me feel better than I have in like a week.

The trip that Emily and I took to Kent yesterday made me feel better. The school was smaller, a lot less people went there, and I know for a fact that like 1/3 of the people from my graduating class are going there. So yeah, I think I will do good there next semester. I was thinking about applying for a job there in the library since I've worked in a library before. It would be a good way to get to know the people that go there and get familiar with the place.

Em's a bit nervous about going, but I think she'll do ok.

So last night Emily and I were hanging out at my house. Then we got hungry and decided we wanted some ice cream so we headed out to Baskin Robins, because I've never been there before, and I'm trying to go to new places and stuff. I had cookie dough ice cream by the way, which was really good. But then as we're leaving all of a sudden this horrible storm starts up and we were like 15 minutes from my house. It had to have been one of the scariest car rides I've had in a long time. The lightning was ahead of us so we could see every strike that was made. And as we're getting to my house, we hear this enormous BANG! and lightning struck like 4 times in a row. It kinda looked like a stobe light. So we screamed and Em slammed on the breaks. 30 seconds later, when I got home, the power was out. The big bang was lightning zapping our transformer.

If there's one thing I hate in this world, it's when I don't have power. Normally the first like hour is kinda fun, you get to play around in the dark and it's kinda cool and stuff. But last year, we had a huge storm come through that knocked out all the power in like a tri-county area. Ours was out for 49 hours. 2 full days. We lost a whole fridge and freezer full of food, most of which was packed into coolers but still didn't keep, it was ungodly hot but we couldn't turn our air on, and we were bored out of our minds. No t.v., no internet, no radio (we had a little clock radio that ran on batteries and we huttled around it like it was our only connection to the outside world, which it pretty much was ) we couldn't even check our email. And even in the middle of the day, inside the house was so dark. Renee and my mom spent a lot of time on the phone to pass the time, but as anyone with social anxiety knows, I can't handle talking on the phone. Plus, when the power went out I still had to go to school. It sucks getting ready for school with no electricity.

So yeah, I was afraid we were going to have another one of those episodes. But we didn't : ). When I saw the electric company's trucks driving around our neighborhood I got really excited, and when our lights came back on I full-out screamed with delight. Emily hung out with me to make me feel better, because I'll admit it, I was pretty much losing it.

So tonight, me and Em are going to a drive-in movie. We're gonna see Halloween (it might be halloween 2...is that out yet? I can't keep scary movies straight) and then The Hangover is after that, which I've heard is really funny and I've been dying to see. I'm not so excited about Halloween. Neither I nor Emily enjoy scary movies, but she still insists on watching them. I don't know why. I don't know if she think's it's socially unacceptable to not like scary movies, so she just is trying to get over her fear, but whatever. They're just not my cup of tea.

My laptop just flashed a 10-minute warning on it's batery life, so I guess I better submit this before it dies. Later I'll be back to say how the movie went.