Today has been a very good Friday, which are so very rare!

Game theory didn't go too much over today; it went until around 1:30, and since we didn't go over the homework, it was much easier to absorb the new material.  Our professor decided that she is going to have a separate voluntary section to go over the problem sets, which I think is better in the end, so we don't go for six hours again, because that was just brutal.

Speaking of game theory, both my dudes told me that I am the prof's favourite and that she is "obsessed with me."  I don't really...get that vibe; I mean, I can tell she likes me, probably because I understand things a little easier than others (and I attribute that entirely to my math background), but I don't know if I'd say I'm her favourite, aha.  But still, it is nice to think that she likes me!  After this week, I will say she has grown on me a little more.  (Plus she did get our Methods prof to cancel his homework which is so fucking awesome because now I don't feel like I'm going to be drowning in stuff.)

One of the second years brought his 3 and a half month old puppy in, and my god...I did not pay attention to the presentation at all.  He is so cute and I can't.

Right after workshops, went to the shelter, dropped off everything and handed in my application!  They said it will probably be a few weeks because everything takes long, but either way, I'm really excited!  I might buy more stuff after my next paycheck and go give more things.  I just really want to help out and go there a lot and I feel like if I go there and bring at least one thing every time, that would be good!

Then it was to the bar, where I chatted with professors for a long time.  They're so fun and funny and I'm really glad we have an amazingly friendly department.  It is actually apparently something that really distinguishes us - our faculty is known for being really cooperative and friendly with each other rather than super competitive and stuff.  They were telling jokes and giving us advice (such as: 'after you get your degree, and you book flights, don't ever put yourself down as 'Dr.'  Because someone will have a stroke on the plane and look for a doctor and you'll have to explain things or fake it when they identify you'), and it was just a really awesome time.  I hope more chances to hang out with them happen as the weather warms up.

Brendan's girlfriend was with us and she actually was a lot nicer to me than she has been in the past, which I appreciated.  But I still was kind of...uncomfortable around her?  I don't know if it was because the last time gave me such a bad taste in my mouth that it isn't completely gone, or if it is just that...we're so different.  Like at one point when we were at dinner, she asked me what I do over summer, and I said, "...stay inside and play video games," and though I said it jokingly...it's kind of what I do aha.  I don't like the heat so I'm all about the a/c!  She then said, "Oh, you don't go to the beach?"  And I shook my head and said that I didn't like the beach all that much (with the exception of when I'm in the Caribbean of course aha), despite growing up with a bunch so close to me.  I was also asked if I liked dancing, and while I do, I know she meant it in a 'going to clubs' sort of thing, which I'm not as into.  I need to be in the mood for it?  I dunno; it seemed like a bad first date: asking questions and learning that the person across from you is into everything opposite you are.  But I mean, she didn't alienate me as much, so there's that!

One of the members of my cohort has been saying how much he is miserable and makes statements about how he wants to hurt himself, and sometimes people take it as joking, but he then says he's not joking, so part of me wants to talk to him?  Just tell him that I understand how that feels and if he wants to chat or anything that he can.  I tried to say it off-hand today when we were at the bar; I would've been more direct, but everyone else was around.  Really, I was just saying that like, I understand what he is saying and everything, and trying to tell him that spring break will be amazing and all.

McKenna is coming tomorrow and my room is a mess and I totes didn't do laundry.  Oops.