Today we went ice-skating, which totally blows because I do NOT do skating of any kind. I fall down and break bones! Plus it was just cold and crowded and everywhere we go they buy everyone soda but I have given up soda. This entire place is basically run on soda. There is always soda drama going on. People who want to go out and buy soda, people complaining when they get cut-off from soda, people yelling that their soda has been stolen, people making soda deals, like trading three cigarettes for a soda or whatever. The words "Mountain Dew" and "Diet Coke" are just hanging in the air constantly. I think quitting soda was a really good move. Not that I drank it that much before, mostly just at restaurants. But still, if I hadn't made that decision, I might very well have gotten caught up in the great Florida soda battle.
I went to the library, which was both amazing and sucky. Amazing because it is an amazing library, with a whole room of dvds, a whole room of music, and of course a bajillion books, and even a used book store on the top level! It was very incredible. Sucky, because I am not allowed to have a library card without a Florida ID! And I aint gonna get no Florida ID! But someone else from the program was nice enough to check some books out for me so now I am FINALLY reading "Chronic City" by Jonathan Lethem and I have "Let's Spend The Night Together" by Pamela De Barres, sixties super groupie, on the back burner.
Some folks have been assholes (NO ONE can get over my desire for people to stop insulting gays, women, and people of different ethnicities! They think I'm crazy!) and some folks are nice. I would not be friends with any of them on "the outside". But, here is one thing I'll give the place: in real life, I am not considered an especially mature or responsible person, nor much of a beauty. Here I am a total god in both arenas.
Finally, in weight loss news, they had to weigh me for my chart or some shit, and I have lost 7 pounds since I got here. 7 pounds in a little over a week and a half! Rad. Only 92 to go.