May 3rd, 2026: Sunday today. I woke up and had cereal with milk for breakfast and then coffee. I played more Fire Emblem Awakening, I talked with Alise more and she wasn’t responding as much as she used to, like a slightly decreased amount. I got dressed in a black blazer, my white button-up, and a purple tie because it’s not lent anymore, I didn’t end up matching the priest who was wearing white. All the people there included Agaw and her fiance, Markus, Markus’ brother, Telemachus, Juneau girl, Swifte, Luigi, the Honduran, Jade, Gabriella, Kristine, Jade, and others I forgot. I volunteered to read and I went up and did 1 Peter 2:4-9:
☛4 Come to him, to that living stone, rejected by men but in God’s sight chosen and precious;
☛5 and like living stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
☛6 For it stands in scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and he who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
☛7 To you therefore who believe, he is precious, but for those who do not believe, “The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner,”
☛8 and “A stone that will make men stumble, a rock that will make them fall”; for they stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
☛9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
The homily was kind of relevant, it was about the Champion pilgrimage, describing how people were playing music and talking with each other at the start yet as they walked more, by mile 20 nobody was talking at all, just in silent prayer. I went up to communion and then went back. I ate lunch pretty quickly. The Honduran invited me to sit at his table just as I was done eating. I refused multiple times because I still fucking despise Markus. I got up and left to head home. I continued work on my algorithms homework. I talked with Alise more today and she mostly wasn’t responding to the weird Instagram memes I sent her. She doesn’t know how to have fun… I spent most of the day writing in my blog occasionally and thought about heading on a bus to ride it for fun (I told her about my habit on the date) but decided against it. I later caught the bus on time to head to the grocery store. I bought bread, eggs, bananas, these weird cookies which were just like girl scout thin mints, and something else. I spotted the Indian lady with what appeared to be her dad but we didn’t interact. I was lucky and caught the bus shortly after getting out of shopping. I went home and unloaded my groceries as I sent more memes to Alise. It’s Xebec’s 22nd birthday today so I made sure to send him birthday wishes. I filled up the sink with warm water to quickly thaw some of the babysitter’s beef and cooked 3 cups of rice. I put olive oil in the pan for the beef which resulted in grease flying everywhere and me needing to wash off spots with cold water frequently. For the rice I put a paper towel under the lid and over the pot to emulate a trick I always remember my mom doing. The paper towel caught fire and James had to open the windows to not trip the smoke alarm while I threw the paper towel in the sink and then went to eat, too much food on my plate so I ended up needing 3 leftover containers. I finally got a snapchat back from Alise and she told me that she was in Fond Du Lac now because her friend was over but she left shortly afterwards as her friend got super drunk and invited a guy over sex. The friend was fat like Alise and Alise even defended her friend’s decision to have random men over for hookups. I ended up going over to the Catholic center at 7:45pm for this event I never went to but apparently this was the last event of this they were doing this semester and this year. I went in to see Agaw, the Honduran, and Markus as I entered the building, only acknowledging the first two people. I went outside for the campfire to see the Quad there along with Lewis, Lewis’ ex girlfriend, Nash, Sixes and his friend, Oriang, Lorax, and others. We wrote down what we would be doing over the summer to stay holy on the FOCUS paper. I talked with Agaw for the partner discussion part and she told me that Atticus was so happy last Tuesday at how warm of a reception she got at mass, mentioning me but not by name. Agaw had a slinky she got from her internship in the county north. I went into Magdalus’ group and Markus talked about going to study in Germany soon and the German bishops being ready to schism soon because they can’t bless same-sex marriages yet want to. We got finished and found out Kristine drove 6 hours here from Ohio to say goodby. I walked home and I took a shower and went to sleep without inviting random people of the opposite sex over for a hookup.
Song of the Day: White Silver Sands - Don Rondo (1957)
