Non-romantic things

Second to last post ago, I shared my most romantic moment I've had, and asked for yours.  For this post, I'll do the same with non-romantic things.

I went on a date with a guy who was 2-3 times larger than me, and that is no exaggeration.  He wasn't even fat; he was just a really big/tall guy.  Anyway, on this first date, we were going to watch a horror movie at his house.  To start the evening off, he was about an hour late picking me up.  We get to his place and first thing he does is offer me wine.  I refused because I figured going to some guy's house on a first date when I don't even know him that well was probably not the smartest idea to begin with, let alone accepting drinks from him.  Anyway, we start watching the movie.  We watched the Strangers. If you haven't seen it, it's a horror movie that has little gore and tries to be very suspenseful.  I don't know about anyone else, but suspense movies don't bother me at all.  The guy who I was with, however, was shitting his pants.  That, or he was using the movie as an excuse to grab me tightly (which might've been the case, lol).  At one point in the movie, he was so scared, he leaped in the air and landed on my lap.  Let me remind you that this guy was 2-3 times my size.  He practically knocked the wind out of me.  What made it worse, was that he wouldn't get off, so I had trouble breathing for the rest of the movie.  After the movie he pulled me, literally by the collar, in for a kiss.  I kindof put up with the kissing because after having to put up with so much crap, I might as well enjoy something out of this date.  Then he tried to go for second base, and I had everything stop there.  Call me a prude all you want,  I won't go past kissing on a first date.  Needless to say, I didn't go on a second date with the guy.

What're some of your non-romantic things that've happened to you?

Happy Belated Coming Out Day!

I really wanted to make a post yesterday, however i had issues with my computer.  I got a virus, and it made my computer too slow to do anything.  I also didn't feel comfortable making a blog post on someone else's computer.  

I have 2 interesting NCOD stories though.  My school's Homecoming.....celebration.....thing..... was yesterday, and I was unaware.  I went to the quad because the GSA had a table there to petition for the school to give benefits to same-sex partners.  When I got there, I found a giant rainbow bounce house, a large stage, and 90's music blaring.  I vote that next year, every school's GSA should rent a rainbow bounce house to NCOD, otherwise we might be outdone by greek life.  

Story #2-  I'm not the only LGBT student who does TKD at my school.  In fact, I've had a handful of LGBT students the past couple years, not all of them 100% out.  There have been a couple students who have come out to me, while still being in the closet  to others.  There's this one student in class, who idk for sure is LGBT, but I see this student at a lot of LGBT functions.  In class on NCOD, one of the other instructors made a joke about how this student should show off their skills to their opposite-sex significant other.  This student started laughing uncomfortably.  Now, this instructor didn't mean any harm and is in fact very supportive of LGBT issues.  Part of me wanted to pull the other instructor aside and inform them of the issue, but I knew that would violate the student's personal privacy.  It sucks that you can't come out for someone, even if you're trying to help.  Plus since idk if this student is LGBT, I could've outed them when they really didn't need to out them.

Anyway, that's what happened to me on NCOD.  As a present for putting up with my absense, here's an awesome video enjoy

Romantic things

In my psych class, we have daily attendance, where we sign our names and answer a question of the day. Since we were talking about romantic relationships, today's question was "What's the most romantic thing you've done/ had done to you?"

The most romantic date I've ever been on was a little over a year ago. It was my second date with this one guy (Our first had been a dinner double date with friends of his). He and I both loved looking at the stars, so we decided to drive out to the middle of nowhere one night in his truck. He had brought a lot of blankets with him, which he laid out on the bed of the truck. We climbed in,and laid next to each other. I showed off by pointing out all of the constellations I knew. I then came to one that he didn't know, and he couldn't see exactly where I was pointing at. I then took his hand, pointed it towards the constellation, and used his finger to connect the stars. After he was able to see the shape, I brought his hand down, but I kept holding on (am I smooth, or what? lol). I turned to him and asked "How'd you like my trick to get you to hold my hand?" He got a little upset at first; he thought that when I said "trick," I meant that the constellation I pointed out was fake. I laughed and said it was real, and that I just took advantage of an opportunity to hold his hand for the first time. We both laughed then looked at each other in the eye. We then shared our first kiss. We spent the rest of the night cuddling/kissing, until he took me home.

To anyone who'd like to share, what's the most romantic thing you've done/had done to you?

Office Elections

We had office elections in TKD for the past couple weeks. As it stood before, I was President, with two other black belt instructors being my "assistants," though really we divided the power evenly. The only difference was that I have the connection to the gym which we practice in and to our school's student organization funding committee. I was never elected to the job, the previous instructor chose me because at the time, I was the only other black belt attending class regularly (the two who help me now had issues with the previous instructor).

Anyway, the other two black belts and I decided that we want to be less dictator-like and have the students involved. We did make a note that a black belt had to be president, because A)it was part of our constitution and B)it looks much better to the university if a black belt is in charge.

Our plan didn't go over so well though. Very few people were nominated. The black belts were more or less the only ones that received votes for pres, vp and treasurer. There were tons of students who were nominated for public relations chair lol (pr chairs get to plan our social events).

So I ended up being elected treasurer, while the other two black belts were elected pres and vp. I have mixed feelings about being treasurer. On one hand, treasurer has the most responsibility in the class, and all of the students know this, so it's flattering to be the most trusted. On the other hand, I really dislike the job. I was stuck doing it last year, and handling all of the business bullshit sucks. Still, I'm kindof glad I got the job because frankly, I don't know if I can trust the other 2 black belts to handle the job very well, and I have no problem saying that because they've said it themselves.

On a different note, I learned something interesting about myself yesterday: I get really irritated whenever people give me good advice, but for completely irrelevant reasons. I was in organic chemistry lab, and the experiment required me to add a pinch of table salt. I was being a bad chemist (I openly admit it) and chose not to put on gloves for this. Not wearing gloves is usually a bad idea for different reasons. Which reason depends on the situation. In this situation, my hands may have been dirty and I risked contaminating my sample. I was aware of this, but I was already having a bit of a bad day, so I just didn't care. Plus, it was only salt, so I didn't have to worry about it being corrosive to my skin. Before I took some salt, I carefully checked the label of the container, making sure it was really salt. I also asked the lab assistant if it really was just table salt, and she confirmed. My professor caught me handling the salt with my bare hands and started lecturing me about why that's bad. Here's where the irrelevant part comes in. He was going on and on about how while this time it was salt, next time it could be something that will burn a hole in my hand.

While this is really good advice, it was completely irrelevant to this particular situation. I was fully aware that salt was safe to touch; if I was handling something that wasn't, I would've definitely worn gloves. I also checked both the label and the assistant, making absolutely sure it was salt and not something else. If my professor argued that my hands weren't clean, I'd be okay with getting lectured.

I know I'm being immature about getting mad at this. I also get mad whenever people's explanations for things are completely wrong (or at least in tkd I do).

Question(s) of the day: What are some things that really get on your nerves?
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