Happy A&A Thursday!

Awkward

• When you accidentally insult someone by making a comment that sounds bad but isn’t and then they don’t let you explain what you really meant and then they just go on thinking that you think raped women in the Peace Corps had it coming.  Yeah.  It was that bad.
• Accidentally being really grumpy and rude to my supervisor when I bumped into him in the library but I was totally stressed out and did not expect to see him there amidst my stress.  Yeah, it’s been a week of accidentally insulting people.
• Breaking into a five minute long coughing fit in the middle of a conversation with a friend.  And then he just sat there awkwardly waiting for me to compose myself.
• Standing between two people at the Carol Service who clearly know how to sing.  And having to sing carols in their presence with my crappy voice, which was even worse with the cold I’m fighting off.  As if I wasn’t insecure about my singing voice in the first place.
• Running late to compline and bursting into the chapel only to realize…that a concert is going on?  Then asking the porter who tells me compline is in the Music Room.  Then running super late to compline and bursting into the Music Room and having a young man welcome us in only to realize…they’re rehearsing carols?  And the guy grabs sheet music to give us.  “You’re here for rehearsal?”  Nononononono, sir.  I think I may have actually laughed.  No singing in the choir for me.  So then we have to quietly scurry out of the room (the quiet part was a bit useless since we’d clearly already disturbed a rehearsal process).

Awesome

• All the Christmas dinners and parties I had this week.  Advent Hall AND Festive Hall.  And more to come!
• St. John’s truffles.  Yes, we have our own truffles.  Yes, they are out of this world delicious.  No, you can’t buy them; they’re just for us.  *evillaugh*
• Going home to see all my lovelies in only a week!
• Just sitting around and drinking hot chocolate with a friend and chatting.  Simplicity at its finest.
• Being able to read a book. For fun.  That isn’t Shakespeare.  My first choice: Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man.
• Brussell sprouts.  I kid you not.  I had them four times this week.  FOUR TIMES.
• Being done with term.  Lord, you don’t know how awesome that really is.