Current mood:

chipper

I have no witty subject line to offer...
So here's the basic rundown of my weekend.

On Friday I spent the day at home, sleeping in (until the late hour of 9:30am) and then not doing homework. I really didn't have all that much to get done, but I probably could've put in a little bit of time. Ah well. Instead of homework, I checked out the EinsteinFest website. I really wish I would've hopped on this sooner! There are several lectures that I would've liked to see, but are now sold out. Ah well. I'll have to pay more attention next time PI puts on an event like this. I did, however, find something that wasn't sold out and that I am really excited about seeing: a Buster Keaton Matinee!!! Buck 65 mentions them quite a bit in some of his songs and during his live performances, and I know I love silent film, so it seemed like a neat event. Plus (here's the cool-factor) the soundtrack is going to be performed LIVE!!! Yuppers. I have heard of this technique before, most notably was an event advertising a viewing of the Rocky Horror Picture show with live soundtrack, and it intrigued me. And I knew Ryan would be into it, so I decided to go and get tickets. I headed over to his place before the PI boxoffice opened to tell him of my plan... Ha! He had been doing an all-night coding bender, and was sleeping when I arrived. I walked into his room, said hello and gave him a kiss on the cheek to wake him up... And he GRUNTED and PULLED THE BLANKETS OVER HIS HEAD!!! I nearly wet my pants from laughing!!! I took his primal communicative methods as a sign that he was DEFINITELY into the plan, so I headed over to PI and go the tickets. (Incidentally, there are some left if anyone wants to join us next Monday at 3pm!) When I told Ryan about it later, he was really into the matinee idea but claimed he didn't remember grunting at me.

After getting my tickets I went over to Victoria's place for some cookies, muffins and cards with her and Steph. I love my girls. Even if it's just a short visit, it's well worth it. It sucks that our schedules are so wonky this term, tho. It makes it difficult to spend time together. Well, at least we'll all be around next term!

While I was finishing up a game of cards with the girls, Megs called me. I was supposed to pick her up at the airport at 8:20pm that evening to head into Toronto for her boy's birthday celebrations. Turns out she was able to switch to an earlier flight and was calling to ask if I could be at the airport by 7pm. Her timing was perfect. It was 5pm, which gave me just enough time to rouste Ryan, fill up my tank, get some cash, and hit the highway. Traffic sucked until we got out of Kitchener, but it was smooth sailing all the way to Pearson. We got to the airport just in time to meet Megs at the loading area on our second pass around Airport Road. It's so awesome to NOT pay for parking!!! (Originally I was banking on having to pay for parking and track Megs down inside the terminal. Luckily Ryan came up with the idea of taking some laps around the road.)

Our night in Toronto was great fun. We parked my car and then headed out for dumplings at a little hole-in-the-wall around the corner from Kev's place. We each ordered one 12-piece plate of dumplings and most people shared. (Not eating red meat meant that I couldn't try anyone else's dumplings, but they were all good about not taking all the dumplings from my order. Thanks guys!) In addition to what we ordered, the server offered us free appetizers to try, and gave us a plate of dumplings for free because they'd made the wrong thing for another customer. In addition, we got free congee, which is essentially oatmeal but made from rice. So, it's rice-meal. The conversation was great - the exception being some revealing anecdotes shared by Alex that we all could've done without :oP - and the food was pretty damned good! In the end, the 8 of us were pretty stuffed, but we only paid a total of $32 for the whole meal!!! (The bill came to $21, but we tipped by about 50% given the incredibly generosity!)

Beers were had by all once we got back to Kevin's place. We played Fluxx, which was surprisingly not endrunkening, likely because there were too many people playing and the pace was too slow due to a large number of n00bs. Still fun, tho. Cards were also played, and we had fun with digital cameras, what with Kev's Mexican Matrix impressions and the little early-90s dance party we got going thanks to Steph's musical stylings.

Sleep was had and then we were up early to head to London. Megs and Kev were scheduled to attend her grandma's 90th birthday party, so I offered to drive her in exchange for gas money. Lexx jumped in with us and it became a road trip. And, like all good roadtrips, it started with major traffic issues. I ask you - is it even LEGAL to close the Gardiner??? Once we got going we were able to find a Burger King and enjoyed a feast of greasy breakfast and lunch food whilst travelling at 140kph down the McDonald-Cartier Expressway. I would like to note that I was able to eat an egg croisantwich AND dip my french toast sticks in syrup WHILE DRIVING and WITHOUT dripping on myself!!! Thank you, thank you. I'll wait for the applause to die down before I continue my post.

*** 15 minutes and several pounds of longstem roses falling at my feet later... ***

You're too kind. Thank you!

Saturday was a mellow kind of day. The drive took up quite a lot of time. We chilled for a few minutes in Megs' living room - which is the coolest living room EVER!!! She has the PERFECT leather seating and TV! I am immensely jealous!!! After dropping Kev and Megs at their event, Ryan and I introduced Lexx to our style of navigation. "Hey Lexx, we eventually need to turn left. You tell us when." He apparently didn't get it, because he first told us to check a MAP (silly boy) and then instructed us to turn left into a field. Ah well. He'll learn eventually. Unfortunately the 401 beat us in this latest round. Rather than meandering around it, be ended up bumping right into it and had to hop on it just outside Kitchener. We'll get you next time, you urban transportation hellian!!!

The afternoon involved a nice, long nap, and then dinner. We eventually made our way over to Lexx's place for his Extended RIMjob celebration event. His 4-month co-op was just extended to an 8-month, so we all drank his alcohol in celebration. Settler's was played, politics were discussed with gusto, and Co and I eventually fell asleep. Our boys were gracious enough to wake us and lead us home to consume popcorn and eventually hit the sack for the night.

On Sunday I rolled out of Ryan's bed nice and early and headed home. Upon arrival, I was greeted by a father with a stomach bug. Yicky. He didn't let his illness stand in the way of getting me to scrap the paint off the outside window casements and then help him fix a major plumbing issue. Actually, I didn't mind the chores. It was a nice day to be outside, and I quite like my basement and don't want it to look like New Orleans thanks to this damned leaky pipe, so I can't complain too much about the home repairs.

The rest of my day was occupied by homework. Specificially, I designed a website to host an article that I wrote for my Info Design class. It's not due until Thursday, but I wanted to get it underway because I know how absorbed I get when it comes to webdesign and tech writing - and the assingment involves both! I ended up working on it until 3am, and I plan to refine it some more over the next few days.

This brings me to today. I am currently in the basement of the Dana Porter library, sitting at a laptop station and avoiding the reading I have to do for Rhetoric class tomorrow. Boo Rhetoric class. I'm basically killing time until I attend a seminar put on by Mike Lazaridis himself! I'm going for the BlackBerry draw (There are two draws for a free BlackBerry with full email service for a year!) but I'm staying to hear what this crazy genius dude has to say. Should be interesting.

This evening finds me spending a little time with Ryan and then heading to Guelph for yoga with Vanessa.

Have I mentioned lately that life is good??? :o)