So in a half hour it will be officially winter, though it’s been making a pretty strenuous case for moving the date earlier, as cold as it’s been. I hope you are all staying warm and have gotten all your Christmas shopping done. I think I made it…think I have all my cards sent out…now all I have to do is save, save, save until I go to Vegas in January. Strange how we made plans for this so long ago and now it’s here. I wish I could feel secure in the knowledge that I’ll win some money down there, but as I’m not going there to gamble, it’s a pretty foolish desire. Yeah, yeah, I know, Vegas=gambling, but I want to see the sights, not give up my money in some venture where it’s highly unlikely that I will get it back.
I wonder if I will get a raise. Silly to not know, I suppose, but I’m not exactly in a job where I can say, yeah, I deserve more. It’s just a stupid cost-of-living concern, really. Darn gas going up.
Random thought: There’s going to be a Dresden Files series on SciFi (darn not having basic cable! Couldn’t pay for it anyway) that I just heard about today, and I wanted to find the books at home. I found all that I have minus the first book in the series…it’s disappeared and I can’t think where to. I did, however, find the rebate receipt for Star Wars Episode III that I forgot to mail off. Alas.
One of these days I’ll talk about how I liked the Chronicles of Narnia so much that I saw it twice (once with Ross, yay!) and would see it again, possibly with the ‘rents during my upcoming time off (thank the Lord!), my thoughts on Harry Potter 4 (which I saw opening day, in costume, natch) and the various fun things (insert sarcasm here) going on at work. But not tonight. You’ll have to deal with my random drivel for a little while longer until I think of something pertinent to say.
At least my room smells pretty: thank Heaven for Pier 1’s O’Tannenbaum candle. It’s green and piney. Whee.

Star Wars: Community | This Move, I Must Bust; Yoda does hip-hop.

Monday was a good day. Tuesday was a slightly weird day. Wednesday was a tiring day, and Thursday it snowed. A lot. Today, I’m just tired, though quite happy that Narnia comes out today. Too bad I won’t be able to see it until at least tomorrow…
First, to whomever appropriated my blue and green knit hat, affectionately known as the ‘fungus’ hat by some of my friends, may it keep you warm. I cannot believe that I’ve managed to lose both the hats that I’ve knitted for myself over two winters. Sigh. I had actually started crocheting a new one the day before I lost the previous, but it won’t be done for a while, even if I figure out how to go faster. Sigh. I hope this doesn’t turn out to be a yearly trend. Luckily I have more yarn, so maybe I’ll be able to make replicas. Sheesh.
Monday was a pretty good day. I had to study for my final A&P test of the semester (not a comprehensive final, thank goodness) but work was not too demanding so that was good. On top of that, I received the Medal of Honor soundtrack (selected cues were used in the Seabiscuit trailer) and Mystery, Alaska on DVD (which has a great soundtrack by the same person who scored A Knight’s Tale, though it’s not available commercially) which, for some reason, has its opening titles in French. The rest of the movie is in English, so I’m not complaining. Then came the test, and because of the fantastic professor, I know that I only missed one, which is better that last test’s two wrong answers. Yahoo. At least the lecture part of the class is going well.
Which sort of leads me to Tuesday. Tuesday was a study day (read: early), which didn’t go horribly, other than the fact that the subject’s veins kept moving when the IV was being placed (ew). The weird part was that two emails had been sent out to the WUMS community asking for volunteers for ongoing or future studies. The one on Monday asked for obese men, and has lots of time requirements, so we didn’t get an overwhelming response. The one on Tuesday, however, was for lean women, and apparently a whole lot of them want to be part of a research study. My phone literally rang the second I walked in the door. I hung up on a few people before I realized how to switch lines, as there were several times when potential volunteers called at the same time I was on with another subject. Oops. Did I ever tell you how I don’t like talking on the phone? I always feel a bit discombobulated, especially so with this because *so many* people called in such a short time, and we only needed one (ain’t it always the way). With the large amounts of volunteers, we filled that spot quickly, but we’ll have a new study early next year, so yay built-in subjects…
All those subjects meant that even though it was a study day and I could leave earlier than I normally do, I couldn’t. And of course, I had somewhere to be…at the lab for the continuing dissection of the cat. Oh joy. What is it about the preservative solution that makes everything smell like it for the rest of the day? Ugh. Thank goodness it’s almost over. My lab partner and I have one more meeting to label the thing, then our lab practical on Thursday, and that’s the end of the semester. Whee. Until next year, unless I can’t come up with the extra $250 lab fee. Stupid cat, costing me money…Maybe I’ll win it in Vegas 😉
Mustn’t forget about the fact that there was a water main break near the apartment tuesday night. When I got home from lab and HAD to go to the bathroom, there was no water, and thus nothing but red sludge in the toliet. Luckily I could go home and get dinner from my parents AND use their water. What a deal. Thank you, thank you to the wonderful folks who had fixed the main by the time I got home.

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Morris ran into Jacob at the mall and asked him about the small gift-wrapped box he was carrying.

“Becky’s birthday is coming up,” Jacob said. “When I asked her what she wanted, she said, ‘Oh, I don’t know?just get me something with lots of diamonds in it.’

“So what did you get her?”

“A deck of cards!”

I still need to figure out what to get my dad. Do boys have as much trouble buying for their dads as girls do?

…but at least I’m not blonde. (Apologies to all my blonde readers out there.)

A guy took his blonde girlfriend to her first football game. After the game, he asked how she liked it.

“I really liked it,” she replied, “but I just couldn’t understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents.”

Dumbfounded, her date asked, “What do you mean?”

“Well, they flipped a coin, one team got it and then for the rest of the game, all they kept screaming was: ‘Get the quarterback! Get the quarterback!’ I’m like, Hellooo? It’s only 25 cents!”