I am currently loving Michael Buble’s song “Haven’t Met You Yet.” It’s just so amazing and so true. I haven’t yet met that guy who I’m willing to give my all to again. Burned the first time, scared to let it happen again. But isn’t that part of life? Taking a flying leap and risking all you have. You may get hurt, but you may find you fall exactly into where you were always supposed to be. The thing about getting hurt is picking yourself back up and realizing you may be a bit bruised up, but you did see the world in a new way, and learned where not to fly next time.

I totally almost snapped at my RA this morning. Getting demerits for having a single hair in the bathroom really stretched my patience and grace to new limits. But I didn’t snap! Just got stretched a little farther than I wanted. Let’s hope they don’t do anything else to stretch me even farther cause no promises on the next time!

Ok I know I haven’t been on here in a while, but I’m in the mood to start blogging again. I’ll use this as half a Datingish blog, half just normal life. Scary ain’t it?

Brief intro for those who don’t me. I go by Rae and am your atypical college student. I used to be a music student, got my degree in that, and then moved to a deaf college. Yes you read that right. I go to college where currently there are two other students besides myself are hearing. It has it’s pros and cons, but I honestly love it for the most part. With my music my focus was piano and secondary voice. I love musical theater and used to be apart of my college performances regurlary and seriously miss it now. For the deaf side of me, I’m fluent in American Sign Language and want to be involved with Deaf ministry and work for the rest of my life. Somehow mixing that with music, yeh you try to figure that out too. For my blogging, I love writing and would’ve loved a career in journalism, but alas, other plans happened.

For those who knew me before when I was active, a lot of things have changed in my life so give me the benefit of the doubt on some things ok? You know what I'm talking about.

For weeks I've walked around campus seeing various flyers for the candidates running for positions in student government. President, Vice President, Representative, Andrew, Nathaniel, Catherine, etc... Eventually the names run all together right? Until they come to life...

"Hi, my name is _______." I look up into a talking poster. Ok not really, but a face that has been plastered across the walls recently was now standing in front of me, talking. The conversation was short, but he seemed a nice enough guy. I invited him to a student organization meeting a few days later and he said he'd come but I seriously doubted it. I mean elections are a week away, of course he had to say he'd come right?

But he did! We ended up talking for an hour after the meeting ended and I kept thinking, "Wow he really is a nice guy." But that is when reality hit... I was totally being campaigned.

Elections were in less than a week at that time, and I was involved in a department he had never touched really before with campaigning. My "duh" moment of why he was being so nice really was revolutionary. I left shortly thereafter, saying I had voice lessons (dismissing the fact they didn't start for another half hour) and breathed a sigh of relief.

But that's what politicians are supposed to do right? Like everybody, smile a lot, have everybody like them so you can get their votes. I don't have a problem with that, I really don't. So I proceeded the friendship with that in mind.

So Eeections have come and gone (he won) and though the email messages have slowed down, they're still there. I don't think he's flirting or interested (there's an eight-year age difference between us and vastly different belief systems as far as I can tell) but it made me start to think, how in the world can you tell if someone who is a politician or has a politician like personality is really interested in you or just "doing their job?" They HAVE to like everybody, so when do you know when it's different with you? Have you ever been in this situation (in either position?) What did you do and how did it turn out?