predictions

last wednesday i had lunch with my best friend and i asked him, "are you doing anything interesting on the 26th? that's next wednesday."
"i don't think so," he said. "why, do you have something in mind?"
"no," i told him, "but susan miller said something good is going to happen to me on the 26th, and i thought it might have something to do with you."
"i guess you'll just have to wait and see."

i feel ambivalent about these kinds of predictions - that a certain day will be lucky or unlucky for you because of astrology. i don't really think stars and planets influence stuff like that, but i know that what i read influences my behavior and mindset. so maybe nothing special will happen on wednesday, but i'll wake up expecting something good to happen, which might just put me in a better mood, but it could also push me into taking chances or pursuing opportunities i might not have otherwise. this, for me, is the main benefit of my interest in astrology.

actually, i already know about two good things happening on wednesday. the first is that i'll get my parking permit so i won't have to do so much goddamn walking all the time. the second is that there's an event where all the student clubs and organizations set up booths or tables so you can learn about them and decide which ones you'd like to join. i've decided to try to join at least two groups; if possible, i'd like to join one about an activity or interest i don't know much about and one about something political.

there's also a big fancy gym on campus that i want to visit, but i'm nervous about that. i think it'd be fun and good for me to do a little exercise a couple times a week, but i don't know about doing it in front of a bunch of strangers. i went to look at the gym website just now and just reading it stressed me out, so i'm not going to worry about it right now.

i made my butterfly hair clips last night. this might be the shortest amount of time that's ever passed between me having an idea and actually carrying out the plan. but it was so easy and quick i was kind of disappointed. all i did was plug in the glue gun, put in a glue stick, squeeze a drop of glue onto an alligator clip, press the butterfly onto the clip, and set it aside to dry. opening the packages the butterflies came in took longer than the actual assembly of the hair clips.
so now i have 7 pretty hair clips. 4 of them are yellow and the other 3 are white and less realistic-looking with glitter. the thing is...they smell kind of weird. i don't know why and i can't describe the smell. it just really bothers me. i might febreze them and leave them outside in the sun tomorrow to see if it goes away. i don't know. i guess there had to be some kind of complication somewhere.

tomorrow is church. A was telling me she feels like there's a lot of problematic stuff going on at church that no one is addressing. i asked her if she'd ever tried addressing it and she said no. a few weeks ago i'd suggested that the youth group should write a sermon together and pick someone to read it during the service, but nobody seemed interested until now, when i brought it up with A again. so i think we'll be talking about that tomorrow. i think it's a good idea but i won't participate unless i'm allowed to edit. the reason is, S is awful, and D talks like a motivational speaker and it sounds fake and weird, and A is probably fine but she'll never correct anything D adds. god, why did i even suggest this? i already have a bad feeling.