My insurance exam is done, hooray! I'm not sure if I'm going to continue with the courses - in order to finish them before my planned "move to London" date, I would need to do two courses this term, and two the next. And there's not really any point in doing them if I'm not going to finish them, because I need to finish them to get the $1500 bonus, which is the reason I'm doing them in the first place! :-) So I have to decide if I can really commit to doing two of these horrifically boring courses instead of just one for the next two terms.

After finishing my exam, I decided I needed a fun weekend, and yesterday was *almost* an excellent day, until I managed to screw it up. *sigh* I rented a car in the morning, and drove down to Buffalo (after waiting TWO HOURS to get across the border - I've never had such a delay...but then, I guess I don't usually go across on the middle of the day on a Saturday either!). Anyway, once I finally made it over, I went to downtown Buffalo for a tour of the Ansley Wilcox House, where Theodore Roosevelt was inaugurated after the assassination of McKinley. It was quite interesting! Not really a popular tourist destination though, I don't think - I was the only one there for a while, so I was getting a private tour, and eventually one other guy joined us. :-) The girl doing the tour had asked where I was from, so at one point when she was talking about the history of the house, she mentioned that it had formerly been part of a barracks that was built to protect Buffalo from the Canadians. ;-)

Anyway, after that, I headed to Target, everyone's favourite Buffalo destination! I bought a skirt, a wall clock, a play centre for Tiger and two DVDs for $50 altogether - not bad!

The Bravo Broadway concert was actually back in Lewiston, which is *right* across the border, so I travelled back there from Buffalo, and stopped for a quick supper before going to the Artpark for the show. Now, here's where I managed to ruin my night, though I didn't know it until later. See, I had emailed Doug to tell him I was coming, but he hadn't responded. Normally, he'll have tickets put aside for me if I'm going to come, but since I hadn't heard from him, I wasn't sure if he had. So I thought I would ask, and if not, I'd just buy a ticket, no big deal, right?

So, I went to the box office and asked. They had nothing under my name, but they had 2 tickets under Doug's name, so the girl gave me those. Fast forward to the end of the concert, and I'm waiting at the stage door. I was kind of just behind the door, so I couldn't see in, but I could hear people inside. So I heard Doug come out, and then I heard him introduce Christiane to his two friends who had come down from Toronto, and all I could think of was "OH MY GOD, I TOOK THEIR TICKETS!" I was absolutely horrified, so I left and went and sat down for a second to try to see how much I was overreacting. I don't know for sure that that's what happened, but it seemed a pretty good possibility, since he never had written me back. I was so upset with myself that I couldn't even bring myself to face him and find out if it was true, so instead I just left a message with one of the volunteers there to tell him that I'd been there and wanted to say hi, but couldn't stay, and then I just left and came back home. :-(

So now I'm just mad at myself for blowing things out of proportion, as I so often do, and not resolving everything then. Now I guess I'll have to email him and explain how I ended up with those tickets, and apologize, and feel like even more of a loser than I already do. And I'm also disappointed because I was really looking forward to talking with him and to Christiane too.

Up until that point, I had really enjoyed the show though! Marvin Hamlisch was conducting, so he played a few songs on the piano, including "What I Did for Love", which was really cool. They sang a few songs that were different from the shows I've been to before, and it was great just to see Christiane again! She did an absolutely fantastic "Glitter and Be Gay"! Then she and Doug also sang "Phantom of the Opera", which was equally wonderful.

On another note, I saw "Spiderman 2" last weekend, and enjoyed it quite a bit! Except, am I the only one who's noticed that Peter Parker hardly says anything? I mean, I know he's supposed to be shy and all, but it seems like he spends most of the movie just looking at people! Regardless of that, it was still very enjoyable, and I just got the first one on DVD too!

Now I really must work on cleaning my apartment, since my mom will be here in two days! This involves a lot of finishing little projects that I have started and abandoned all over the place - mostly organizational things. It should be pretty spotless by the time she arrives!