a couple of weeks ago

i had a fun weekend! i did counselor type things on friday night. i like being a part of that! (it's a summer camp for middle school kids on thursday and friday evenings.) i like the people i work with, and stayed up til about 1 talking to leanne and alicia about my experiences there. slept in til 830! and went with ashley to old navy and bought this cute top and skirt. i went in for shorts, but, you know. afterwards we had a picnic at the elder covered bridge in oconee county. then we watched most of moulin rouge. pam came later that night, and we went to atlanta to hear over the rhine. it was great! i even saw rachel there! talk about coincidencies...we are surely meant to be friends. hem is touring with otr, and they were pretty nice as well. we walked around little five points; cause really, how many times will one get to do that at 1230? we stopped for groceries at walmart and drove around in those carts for old people. we thought, surely there are no old handicapped folk shopping at walmart at 130 in the morning! we were surely wrong. then we had some good food at ihop, where we discovered that men act the same at 70 as they do at 18. it was really quite creepy. they gave the poor hostess a hard time! i didn't put head to pillow until 330.
sunday offered a solid 5 hour sleep, and i ended up not as late to church as i thought i would have been. afterward we went up to helen and had a picnic and tubing. now, truth be told, i did not want to tube down that river. last time i fell out and i really did not want to get wet. but i decided to go at the last moment. got stuck a couple of times, but i (and miss ashley...the rest of our actual group did not even try to wait for us! but i'm not bitter...) ended up bumming off this group of clemson guys (we travelled down the river together, and when we'd get stuck, they'd unstick us...it was great!). then the storm clouds came a'rumblin', and completely soaked us head to toe. i mean, it was a good, hard rain. pam waited for us at an "exit" since we were barely at the halfway point, and we found shelter at some restrooms. we managed to flag down one of the buses and met back up with the clemson guys. this other guy told us about how he found shelter in a spider shop. good stuff! then we got to my house and ate pizza and watched the ringer. i really don't care how much attention it brought to the special olympics; i was thoroughly unpleased within 20, and went to bed around 11. monday night found pam and i at the mall shopping for undies and shorts. then we went to the grit and had some yummy veggie food and decided to go to the movies. ashley was on her big date with ryan and joined us, but not before we stopped at chuck e. cheese for some skeeball and got ourselves knocked up with cotton candy and a slinky. we saw "v for vendetta", stayed till after the credits, stayed till after they shut off the lights and all the employees went home. seriously though: bad customer service. we played a couple of rounds of ultimate mortal kombat...we kept trying to finish each other off at the end but to no avail. and i left my purse in ryan's car, so we got to see where he lives. tonight should be fun; we have a softball game and afterwards we're playing games. i like games.