Back from my cruise — feel terrible. My throat feels like some bastard grated it and my whole body hurts from my foray into kickboxing yesterday.

The whole cruise thing was much better and more interesting than expected. The friends I made were not my kind of people at all, but over time I think we got really fond of each other. This morning (c. 4AM) there were lots of goodbye hugs. I learned some things, such as: 1) I can in fact get along with football players, as long as they have pretensions; 2) Cigarette smoke makes my throat hurt; 3) I really like being the sober one. Being around a lot of very typical teenagers whose conception of Spring Break was Why Aren’t We Drunk Yet demystified some things for me, and make me more sure of my own choices in regards to these things. Also, I bought two awesome hats, and found some really interesting people among the typical teenagers. So, good.