Allo?

Does anybody know if Pri is still alive? I can't find her phone number, and she hasn't replied to my e-mail. Morgan, you're coming Thursday, right? Could you get ahold of Pri?

(PS: Dave's got a girl over for Sunday night dinner. ^_^)

Butterbeer!

So I have decided to use Thursday's gathering as an opportunity to test out butterbeer recipes. See, Katie recently made butterbeer at school that was rootbeer-based, which surprised me, because I'd always thought of it as a kind of apple cider drink. So I went and researched recipes for it. Apparently, the official word from Rowling is that it tastes much like butterscotch. And, oddly enough, the most common kind I found online was a cream soda-based kind. So I'll have that along with a rootbeer one, a milk one and an apple cider one. The running theme seems to be butterscotch schnapps, so that's what'll be in them, unless you either hate that (I'm gonna buy some spiced rum to see how that works, with butterscotch syrup) or don't want any alcohol, in which case you just get syrup. Three cheers for chicken wings absorbing alcohol so we don't all get horribly, horribly sick! ^_^

Doug!

I'm sorry! I didn't know you were coming back for Christmas!! Here, classes go until the 23rd, so I guess I just assumed... So I guess that, gosh darn, we'll just have to have another time of merriment in order to see you. ;-)

In other news, I have just remembered the existence of the 90s dance song "The Real Thing." Anybody else remember that one? It's gonna be in my head all day now, I swear...

So I went Christmas shopping yesterday. Got gifts for Joyce and Jenilee. Realized that I'll have to do a remarkable amount of my Christmas shopping at a wine store (Peter's parents, among others). I'm making Peter come with me because, while I can tell you a good wine for a reasonable price, I have no idea what kind of wine they like.

Oh! Did I mention what I got my sister's dog for Christmas? I got him dog treats from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory! They come in a tin shaped like a bone. ^_^ It's going to be a little expensive to ship, but I couldn't resist.

Hmmm... It's been a nice, slow Friday morning here. Read paper, ate bagel, drank latte... :-) Am now petting dog. I feel much better than I did yesterday, when I ate a bunch of sweets (Jenilee gave me a bunch of Chirstmas baking) and then crashed and felt horrible. They were really good sweets, though. ^_^

ETA: Okay, so I just noticed that I have two comments from my post on the tenth that I hadn't read. Doug, apologies, you did indeed tell me you were coming back. And I guess John-if-you're-still-in-the-country has in fact left for Australia. Which is too bad, but now I feel less bad about now having an e-mail address for him (his ualberta account has been deactivated).

Hear Ye, Hear Ye!

I am currently attempting to comb my hair. As I'm sure anybody with long hair knows, it doesn't comb well, especially when it's wet and underconditioned. I'm not sure where the brush around here went (I'm at Peter's). I suspect it might have belonged to Shelly, and therefore disappeared when she and Andy broke up. Boo. :-(

Anyway, I am making an official declaration! Some kind of dinner-oriented social gathering will be happening on the night of the 22nd! Kaitlyn, you'll be around in time for dinner, right? I vote Darriens, because I haven't been there in a while and BP's wings just don't compare. Afterwards, of course, y'all are invited back here for some festive tipples and whatnot. ;-) I suppose I should send out an e-mail, so I'll go do that.

Silliness ^_^

Remus Lupin
You are looking for someone sweet, intelligent, and
understanding. Although he may have big
troubles to overcome, with you by his side this
wolfman will at least have a non-judgmental,
loving romance.


Who is your Harry Potter love match? (for girls)
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So apparently I'm Tonks. I actually quite like Lupin in the Books, but the choice of actor for the movies I wasn't as fond of. Oh, well. Three cheers for wasting time instead of practicing for my Conducting Exam! ^_^ At least Percussion Tech this morning went reasonably well...

Happy Birthday!

Stagecraft exam this morning went well enough. I was too obsessed with understanding things in my studying, instead of just regurgitating answers. I passed, although I'm not sure I did well. I said Vitruvius was a window. If you find out the relevance of Vitruvius to stagecraft and then look at the etimological (sp?) connotations of Vitruvius, I actually made a horrendous but amusing error. I'm actually kind of proud of it. ^_^

CBC is showing Christmas specials tonight. Winnie the Pooh and Christmas, Too!, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and I'm currently watching Frosty the Snowman. I often say "Messy, messy, messy!" like the magician does, and nobody gets it.

Oh! I finally bought the text for my Percussion Tech class today! One day before the final! Yay me! ^_^ Not that I've taken it out of the bag to practice yet. I went over Erika's old notes today (good lord, she's meticulous), so hopefully I'll be okay for the written part, and then I have nearly three hours to practice for the playing portion. Yeah, I was last to sign up, and therefore I got the last spot. And then only Conducting left, next Monday.

@$#%!!!!

Studying counterweight scenery system. And I'm not happy about it. All of these diagrams from my prof have two pullies to demonstrate mechanical advantage, but I can't figure out how those work, since one end of the purchaseline/drift is fixed and that seems to not let anything move. And if neither end is fixed, and you have, for example, three pullies, how does the 25 lb arbor balance with the 75 lb flat? I understand that you can move the 75 lbs by just moving the 25lbs, but unless it's clamped in place somehow, shouldn't the flat fall? How would it be clamped? Oh, I am so confused...

Luckily, all I have to do is label a diagram, and that I can do. Who says I actually have to know how this crap works? I'm gonna be teaching junior/senior high Drama. What little scenery I have will be made out of old refrigerator boxes.