April 17th, 2025: Actually a really good day today, I had the last of my milk in my cereal for breakfast as I completed my German assignments before class. I played some more modded Terraria and then finally decided to head out to the coffee place for the Bible study until I noticed that there was a line of dripping happening in front of the door to the bathroom, I immediately grabbed my towels and put them down in front of the door and called the apartment company.
"Hello, I just noticed that there is a burst water pipe in the ceiling above me and it is leaking in front of my bathroom door." I said.
"Ok wait where did you say the pipe was?" He asked.
"It appears to run parallel to the bathroom door in the ceiling above it." I elaborated.
"I'm pretty familiar with the piping of the floor plan, and I know that there isn't a pipe that runs where you said it does, so in the meantime just put a bucket and some towels under it." He told me.
I took his advice and then went to the coffee shop, when I entered the building where it was located. He told me that he talked to the residence upstairs and she said she had a kitchen overflow, which explained the water dripping through, but at least it's stopped by now. I then got to the coffee shop and drank my coffee for a while until Bible study started. More people showed up at Bible study for this week's meeting, including Kaitlin, than for last week. I managed to stay as long as I could until I had to leave for German class. I walked over to German class and I had a good time, I did some of the partner activities with Quentin and did well until I left. I first encountered Macie on my walk back home and said hi to her and she said hi back. The next person that I encountered was Quoc when he said:
"Call me if you need to discuss anything in particular!"
I thanked him and then went home to game some more before I had to head back for my lab at 2:30pm. I then got in and we didn't actually have to do any programming today which was super nice and I got done with the assignment in just under 30 minutes. So I walked home and started packing up to head back home for Easter. I got all my dirty laundry thrown into my giant suitcase and then put a bunch of stuff in my backpack before I made myself some of the stir-fry rice with tiny shrimp in it for dinner with some soy sauce, I ate that and then finished cleaning up the place until it was 6:30pm and I started walking over to the Catholic Center for Good Friday mass. When I got there, I saw a few people including Mercurius and the head acolyte from the mass with the Archbishop there discussing how to do mass differently from the standard masses. Eventually the Honduran came out and all four of us discussed some stuff related to religion before we went in to be seated. A pleasant surprise for today was seeing Zephyr come in when she hadn't in a long time so I told her about me serving as acolyte for the Friday masses and she confirmed that she didn't attend the Tuesday masses because she had class then, no mention of Asherah at all. I complimented Zephyr on her earring and then the mass had started, the Honduran had sat next to me and after the introit (which Gabriel was singing for) he asked me:
"Wait do I go up for the readings immediately after we all sit down?"
I replied to him:
"I think so"
And we then sat down and I saw him go up, I gave him two thumbs up while he was doing it and after the Gospel acclamation he gave a homily talking about the Triduum and him showing that he studied Latin, he talked about the feet washing that were to happen and just before that I realized that there were only 11 people sitting up in the front row, 1 for each of the Apostles after Judas betrayed them: Simon Peter son of Jonah, Andrew son of Jonah, James son of Zebedee, John the Evangelist, Philip, Nathanael bar Tholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Jude, and Simon the Zealot. I then realized that I should go up to be the Matthias of the group and I sat all the way on the left. While I was waiting for the thing, this middle aged lady went up to sit with the foot-washing group and I noticed that she had brownish-yellow toenails and I felt so sad for the priest, I got my right foot washed and then once the foot washing was done for everyone. We did the Our Father prayer and this girl I ended up standing next to motioned for me to hold her hand for it.
Once the mass was done at 8:20pm, said bye to Mercurius, the Honduran, Zephyr, and even Markus and walked home, I finished up packing and at 9:00pm my dad said that he was there, I asked him where but it turns out he accidentally stopped at the Catholic center because he didn't get the memo that I went back home, he drove there and then I loaded up my stuff and went home. On the ride home he said that grandma Jane, Thing Alpha, Thing Beta, Jared, Jean, and grandpa, although my sister wouldn't be at home, we eventually got home at 11:00pm at night and I said hi to my mom and my two cats, I got unpacked and even saw this cool stack of books that was now in my room.
The History of Philosophy thing was super cool because I didn't have much stuff from my mom's grandfather. I then took a shower and went to sleep.
Song of the Day: Joan Crawford - Blue Öyster Cult (1981)