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The last week has actually been one of the quieter weeks I've experienced since I've been in Boston. Although I did expect it to be the most fun. But things don't always work out as planned.

Tuesday afternoon, after a week of stressing out and procrastinating, I finally finished and turned in my Higher Ed in American Society midterm. That took a lot out of me and I was so glad to finish that thing.


Thursday morning I had an appointment to get my hair done at a place in Mission Hill. Luckily, getting there was easy enough. I passed Northeastern on the way...I hadn't seen the campus before, and now I'm even more glad I chose BC. Getting my hair done was pretty typical. She did a roller set, which was what I wanted. She didn't come check on me though, so I just sat there until the dryer turned off. I was miserable because the rollers were way too tight. So then after sitting under the dryer for an hour, she suggested that because it was raining she should wrap it. Really? I sat under the dryer for an hour for nothing. Plus I had to have the stupid white wrap thing on my head again. AND they charge separately for trims. So I ended up spending $75 for basically nothing. Way to go me.

Thursday night there was an outing for the Higher Ed people at a bar in Brighton Center. It was a pretty miserable night, but I had just gotten out of my stupid research class, so a few drinks were in order. I saw Brent on the way there, which was good because I had no idea where I was going. There was a small but good group. It was a good night...nice and chill. Toward the end of the night a cover band started playing. They weren't bad, just kind of random. So after a few songs we left. We stopped into another bar for a second, but then decided to leave. Getting home was interesting though. It was pouring and there wasn't going to be another bus for a while, so we got a cab to Christina's apartment, then I walked to the shuttle to head home.

Friday was my birthday. When I woke up and went into the kitchen, my roommates had put happy birthday signs for me on the refrigerator. It was so cute! I decided not to do any school work but I really needed to clean up my room a little and do laundry. I spent a lot of the day doing that until I had to get ready for the night. I spent forever trying to make my hair sort of curly, which mostly worked. I got dressed in this really cute lavender, white, and black faux wrap dress that I got at Target but hadn't worn yet. It looked really great on me but the wrap part in front doesn't overlap enough so I had to watch out for that. But I looked great. So, earlier that day, Meghan had told me that she and Devlin really needed to study and couldn't go out really late, but they wanted to take me out to dinner. I was disappointed, but I couldn't pass up free food. So we went to Bangkok Bistro in Cleveland Circle. The food is pretty good there and it was nice to do something social with my roommates for once. After dinner I called Brent to see if he wanted to meet me at my house before we went out. He said he was about to call me to say he was too tired to go out. I understood but I was starting to get upset because I had no idea who was going to show up. I went home to finish getting ready and called Amy. She was still going so I left a little while later. I went to a club called Gypsy, which I heard was pretty cool. When I got there, Amy wasn't there yet, so I sat at the bar and had a drink while watching the Sox game. Amy got there about 15 minutes after me and she had brought her husband Sean with her. We hung out at the bar for a while and chatted and watched the game. Amy also gave me a birthday card which was so sweet of her. Later that night a lot more people started showing up so we went to dance. The DJ played a lot of really random music but it wasn't that bad. I pretty much perked up after I started dancing. We were starting to get tired though so we sat down on one of the couches next to the dance floor. A waitress came up to us and asked if we wanted anything but we didn't. At that point she let us know that our table had a $250 minimum. Well, we were wondering why all the wine on the wine list was over $100 a glass... We danced a little bit longer but after a little bit we left. Despite almost everyone bailing on me I had a really great night, and I found out what a fun girl Amy is!

On Monday I went out to lunch with Rima and Liz, two really awesome women from my church. We went to a Brazilian buffet restaurant that had really good food. I will definitely have to go back there. And it was amazing to have a chance to get to know people from church outside of church. I found out about some of the other things that go on at church, which was good because I felt a little out of the loop. There wasn't much that interested me though. Anyway, I really appreciate how welcoming the people at my church have been and I love it so much!