Same old story

I set my alarm Wednesday morning for 8, but ended up snoozing it until 10. Sometimes ya just gotta sleep, especially when ya got a long day of studying ahead of you. It was gloomy out again, which was a good thing because that morning I had to walk all around town and run errands. It was what I deem my "travel morning". I walked around town for an hour and a half working on planning my family trip around Spain...in exactly two weeks they´d be here!!! I am beeeeeyond excited because I miss them like whoa. I first went to Renfe to see if I could upgrade my parents´overnight sleeper car train ticket from Granada to Barcelona, but I couldn´t do it without my dad and his credit card, so we´ll give it another try when they get here. It was a very good, coherent Spanish interaction and we both understood each other really well, and he wasn´t ´dumbing down´ his Spanish for me like some people do. Then I walked all the way to the Arab baths to make an appointment for my family, but turns out that for 4 people or more you have to give them a credit card number to secure it. Nevertheless, they put me in the books and told me that I had until June 11 to give them a number. Okay, word. Then I got 30€ worth of free minutes on my phone upon walking back from the baths due to an Amena promotion (I bought 30€ of minutes back in April, so at the end of May I got 30€ free). Yeah, I love Amena...thank god I lost my Vodafone back in March. So this means that I don´t have to spend any more money on phone minutes! Yessssss. Then I walked to the center and checked out the posted train and bus schedules to look at times and prices to Granada, Córdoba, and Ronda. Then I sent some itinerary emails to the fam. By that time it was time to go home for lunch. Craziness. Lunch kind of blew; we had fatty chicken off the bone (but the sauce was pretty good), grilled zucchini, and one small baked potato. For dessert: oranges. Then I got my stuff packed up and went to Starbucks in los Remedios to camp out. On the way I bought water at OpenCor and ran into Miguel and we talked for a bit. He´s been studying, too. We talked about maybe hanging out this weekend, but I´m feeling I may be studying more than partying. Soon I was at Starbucks. I read more ¨Peribañez..." (I´m up to act 3), then typed up most of my notes for Historia del Cine (my exam for that class is a week from yesterday) which was surprisingly easy and less intense than my other class notes, then typed up more notes for Historia del Arte. Then Melissa showed up at around 8 and we ended up chatting for an hour. We should never be allowed to study together. At 9:15 I walked home, ate dinner which was not great: leftover chicken (blech, it was cold, I just tore up a piece to look like I ate it), shellfish croquetas (again??), and her really good oil and vinegar homemade cole slaw with raisins that I ate mostly. More oranges for dessert. After dinner I called home to talk to my sister since she would be graduating high school in a matter of hours (I´m so upset that I missed it!), and I caught her right after she had put on her robe. Sigh. I can´t believe she graduated. I can´t believe I wasn´t there. Sigh. Then I went to my room and spent the remainder of the night posting webshots. Then my internet went out so I barely got halfway through them. Damn. So I went to bed at around 1. Wooooohoo.