Bruise

I have the biggest bruise on my side. It's like deep deep purple and I can't wear a belt because it hurts too much to have any pressure on my side. But it was my fault, I was trying to push one of my roommates in the snow and we both fell down except I fell down on a small wooden post. I have no idea why I just blogged about that. I can't believe I went from two posts in one day to nothing in a little over a week.

So lets see where to start. Last Friday I had my interview with JVC:Northwest about applying for a second year. I think it went well, I find out today if I get accepted and on Friday where I get placed. I'm a little nervous because I don't know when I will get the call from Bruce my interviewer. On another note I have yet to know if my ovaries are malfunctioning. About a week ago I had an ultrasound on the ovaries to see if they were being good and I was supposed to hear within a day and nothing. I keep playing phone tag with the doctor or they just forget to call me back. Not that I paid for the procedure but still it took time and someone else's money for me to get the procedure done and all I want is a thumbs up or down. Hopefully I hear about the ovaries and JVC today and then I can move on to deal with the next issue of teeth.

This past weekend was crazy busy. On Friday was my roommates b-day and we were going to go to Humpy's to listen to Melissa Mitchell who is a local singer who is pretty popular in this area. But when we got there it was packed, probably because it's right downtown and the start of the Iditorad this weekend as well. So after waiting around we were going to just go home but bumped into a girl who we kinda know and she invited us to McGinley's which was fun. It's an irish pub downtown, nothing too special but it had more space than Humpy's. So we sat around, bumped into a few more people and then ended going up to Humpy's after all and dancing by the stage. It was fun, at one point I thought I saw the bamboozler but we didn't bump into each other. I really hate awkward interactions and I'm not excited for that first meet and greet.

Then Saturday was the start of the Iditorad, you know the big dog race that goes from Willow to Nome. They do a ceremonial start in Anchorage but it doesn't really start here. So on Saturday me and Annie decided to ski downtown and meet up with our roomies to watch it which was entertaining. I wasn't blown away or anything but I guess I can check it off my to do list, eventhough I don't think it was even on there. Then Saturday night I bummed a ride with an FJV and some roomies to Alyeska where they were going skiing. I didn't ski but I did get to watch skiers by a fire and pretend that I was a skier, I think I pulled it off quite well. Afterwards we ended up going to the Brown Bear which is this tiny bar between Girdwood, where Alyeska is, and Anchorage. It's a pretty popular place for bands to play and hippies to hang out. Again Melissa Mitchell was playing which was great. The place is one room with dollar bills tacked to the walls and packed with people smelling of weed and drinking cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer. I would have to say that it was very Alaskan.

And finally to bore you even more I will talk about Sunday as well. Sunday was uneventful but I did watch a pretty great movie. It was called Itty Bitty Titty Committe which I know kinda sounds like a porn movie so I was a little skeptical. And yes it's not like an award winner but it is one of the best Lesbian films that I have seen. It's definentely an indie film that's not done with too much money but it still does a great job. I liked the acting and how it was filmed. The story was ok but I thought it was really well done. Most gay/lesbian films I have seen are absolutely horrible but this was a nice surprise. But the most excting(sarcasm) part of the day was our community money chat. So we've been housesitting and doing other jobs in order to save up some money for a house trip(s). In this meeting we were supposed to decide where we wanted to go and how many trips we wanted to do. Now warning the rest of this post will probably be one sided because well I am going to talk from my point of view. So we all agreed rather quickly about going to Homer for a weekend, check and done. But then instead of the meeting taking one hour it took many. The problem was that most of us wanted to go to Denali, by most I mean everyone but one person. Now I understand her reasoning, yes it would be a lot of traveling for just 2 days in Denali. Yes there could be things we could do that would be closer and yes it would be hard to organize a trip with 8 people. I totally understand that, what I don't understand is her resistance and what I see as selfishness. There were at least 4 people that would rather go to Denali than Homer but yet they compromised because they knew people wanted to go to Homer. Frankly I felt really hurt throughout the meeting. For this person it was not enough that people really wanted to go to Denali or the fact that some people will probably never come back to Alaska and going to Denali would be amazing. There's a lot of background that I don't know if I want to get into. But yes she does have a car that her parents shipped up because she works so early that no buses run. I'm totally fine with it but she needs to realize that has some advantages over the rest of us. She has times when she doesn't work for 9 days, she doesn't have to worry about renting a car when her boyfriend comes and he's coming a couple times. She's also staying after our year so she has more time. Yes I am a little jealous but I felt angry that she asked us why we wanted to go to Denali. I don't feel like I have to justify my reasoning for wanting to go to Denali, I would never ask people why they wanted to go because to me it doesn't matter. All that matters is that someone wants to go there and I would do it because I know how much it meant to that person. Anyway it ended with a vote where 7 of us wanted to do a group trip to Denali and she said that if all 7 us wanted to go then she would go as well. It's a very complicated matter and frankly it's not even about Denali. I think a lot of it is how people were raised which I will write more about in a different post.
I have to go do van rides now. This morning I got up early to help a roommate clean the yoga studio where she does work exchange which was actually fun. But now I am tired and realizing that the sun still hasn't come up because of daylight savings time.