29 October 2011

So this morning Daniel and I woke up - well, he woke up, I was still basically awake because it's difficult to sleep through a snore that makes it sound like I'm sharing the room with a chainsaw - and got showers before going to drop by the rooms of a few select friends here in the dorm. After meeting my friend Jon downstairs and harassing him for a while as he drank his morning espresso, the three of us decided to go to the local cafe, Solomon's Porch, which has some amazing sandwiches with amazing names and descriptions.... like the Wesley Club, described as "near perfection", or the "Fo' Sure Not Kosher", which includes many non-kosher things like bacon... and is served with a kosher dill pickle. I got the Wesley Club, Daniel got the Temple, and Jon got the Hole-iness (served on a bagel). Delicious stuff. After that, I gave Daniel a tour of the library, and we checked out a few extra books relating to our denomination, including a somewhat... quirky... catechetical manual from 1965. Which included a glossary that defined several basic "new words" wrong... like the word 'virgin'. The manual had some hilarious stuff, to be honest. Afterwards, we passed by the John Wesley statue on campus, returned to the dorm to recharge a bit, and then drove to our friend Meghan's house, where we shared some of that catechetical manual's joys with her. There we played with her cats, watched the movie Sherlock Holmes, took some psychological tests, and played a game of Clue, which I somehow won. Also got to know one of Meghan's housemates a bit better. Oh, and we ordered a couple pizzas from Papa John's. Delicious. After finally returning to campus after around 7.5 hours spent with Meghan, we dropped briefly by the girls' dorm to visit our other friend Amanda for a bit before returning here. Now I'm just catching up on a couple Internets while Daniel takes his medicine, and we'll see about getting some sleep soon. Tomorrow, Meghan will be meeting us in town, and we'll be walking a couple minutes to the local black Baptist church, which neither of them have ever visited yet. (I have, and it's an interesting time. First time I went, we all stood in a circle, held hands, and sang Kum-Ba-Yah. Not kidding.) Alas, after church tomorrow, we'll need to catch a quick lunch before sending Daniel back off to snowy Pennsylvania.