Mmmmmm...pancakes and assorted meats. Jen and I went to Brad's house (as did Rob and Chris and Sean, Brad's roommate+fiance were also there for a bit) last night for pancakes because it was pancake Tuesday, also known as Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday. Apparently "Mardi Gras" actually means Fat Tuesday (which is pretty obvious if you have ever learned some French) and so, logically, Mardi Gras just happened in New Orleans. I did not know this previously and I thought that Mardi Gras was just some random drunken, naked, bead filled party/riot.

Anyway, the pancakes were very good (there was also bacon and sausage) and after eating we watched Superman 3 which was clearly a very bad movie. Then we played a really good card game that had a name, but people kept pronouncing it differently and it sounded too hard to spell regardless. The end result is that I didn't get home in time to study much for econ before I feel asleep.

Look! Its a new month and my website handles it right! Yay!

Yay weekends! On Friday I got to go to the Mongolian Grill with my dad for his birthday. Mongolian Grill rules. On Saturday I went to my grandpa's with my family because it was his birthday recently. Sometimes the family visits can be boring but it wasn't too bad this time. We didn't get home until around 10pm, so I didn't start the rest of my evening until late. I went to Liz's and we had really good cake (Snickers cake I think). Then we watched the Princess Bride which is always an inconceivably good movie. Finshed up with some South Park episodes and some stimulating discussion about flexibility and religion. Got home about 4am, but I am surprisingly alert this evening. Yay stamina!

The drive back to Waterloo was pretty bad this evening, really high winds with lots of drifting as well as very slippery roads. I saw two cars actually go off the road (one right in front of me), and I saw dozens of cars in the ditch.

My economics lecture was quite amusing last night. Our teacher (Larry Smith) likes to role play and I got to be America while he was Japan. He was talking about trading partners and the global economy and such. So he basically talked completely to me for 15 minutes in a class of 300 students. Then he went on to say how tightly trading partners are linked and to demonstrate he made me hold hands with him for another 5 minutes while he continued to talk. Everyone at the University of Waterloo should take a class with this man, he is an excellent teacher.

Also interesting about last night was how both Mike and I brought our respective girlfriends to the lecture to show them the amazing Larry Smith without previously planning to do so on the same night. I am beginning to be disturbed by coincidences. Maybe Robert Anton Wilson is right (see the Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy).

The weather outside was also cool this morning: frozen mist. Its like normal mist except frozen. Interesting smell and interesting feeling when it enters your nose. :)

Weekends are fun, so much better than the week, where i have to work and stuff. I got free panzerotti on Friday night because the people at the Pizza Place thought they burnt it. It was actually just a little bit brown but it still tasted good! Then I went and saw the movie "Daredevil" with Kim, Matt, Chris, Liz, Emily and some other girl. The movie had many, many bad moments but was still pretty cool (not worth ticket price though).

I was supposed to go to my grandpa's house this weekend cause its his birthday, but on Saturday the weather forecast called for badness so we stayed home instead. I got to help Kim babysit Thomas instead. That was alright because I got yummy food and got to watch a movie.

The weather forecast was right, it was bad. That was the reason why I took the bus home today instead of getting a ride. The bus driver sucked though, he didn't know how to get to the bus station so he had to keep asking people for help. The guy behind me kept screaming "I'm just a Girl!!" whenever the bus drive asked something. It was weird. Especially since my brother apparently performed that song (by "No Doubt") with his band on Friday at Medway's coffee house. I like random coincidences. Like how I saw 4 limousines this weekend while I haven't seen one in a long time before now.

I am downloading Metallica MP3's tonight because I liked the Apocalyptica covers of some of their songs. The real stuff is also quite good, lots of energy and more like real music than all of the crap available today. I wonder if I will ever buy music again. Interesting that Metallica was one of the first bands to take action against MP3's and yet I had no problem getting any tonight.

I also watched the movie "Signs" on Sunday, it was weird. The movie could have easily degenerated into typical horror film campiness, but it managed not to. It still had a couple plot holes though. Like why a species that is hurt by water would come to a planet that is mostly water. Or why they wouldn't bring weapons like ray guns or at least swords or something. Also why does Mel Gibson's face move the way it does? Oh well, the movie was ok, not sure if I will burn it yet.

Hey Jen! Your dad is here, hurry up and come home!

When I was walking to work this morning there was a weird guy with a giant furry ear flappy hat walking slowly in front of me. Because of the snow I wasn't able to pass him so I crossed the street. While I crossed the street he kept moving forward so he got a little ahead of me. I eventually caught up again, but when I did he completely stopped walking and turned to look at me. It was kinda weird.

It is really nice out today, smells like Spring. That is one of my favourite smells: morning while winter is trying to change to Spring. I hope it succeeds because I don't really like winter and I want all the snow to be gone and it to be warm enough out to not need a coat.

Major update today, not that it is anything normal people would notice. Now the default page will only show the current month's entries and you will see a link at the bottom which will take you to the previous month. Also, if there are no entries it will give you an appropriate message. If you are interested you can type your own query string to get a specific set of entries. The format is: ?date=YYYY-MM or ?date=YYYY where YYYY and MM represent the month and year respectively. If you make enter ?date=showall then you will get all available entries. I also changed a few colours and some spacing.

Doing laundry sucks, you have to keep remembering it. I want to go to bed now but I have to wait for my clothes to dry. Grrrr.

Jen asked me today if her bread was bad. I think it probably was but i told her it was ok. She is eating it now.

Jen asked me to write her a story today while I was at work. She didn't like it because it had a disgusting rodent in it. I say that she sucks. Here is the story:

Once upon a time there was a mouse, except it wasn't ordinary, it had an extra long tail. And it could curl the tail up into a springy thing and bounce around on it it a cute sorta way. Then one autumn day the mouse realized that winter was on its way so he found a nice apartment to stay in while it was cold outside. He figured that after the winter was over he would use his amazing tail powers to give the people living in the apartment each the one thing they most desired as a way of thanking them for letting him stay there.

So he made a nest in a cupboard in the kitchen and started looking for food. He came upon a black plastic thing with some peanut butter on it. Now, the mouse was smart, and knew that when food was left out like that it normally meant it was a trap. But he also knew that all mouse traps were wooden, not plastic, so he figured that it was probably a gift from the people who lived in the house.

Unfortunately he was wrong, the trap killed him and the people threw him and his magical tail out in the trash. The End.