Pre-Birthday Post

After a weekend of actually applying myself (well, as applied as I happen to get, anyways), I have managed to accomplish a few things. For one, I got my take-home test done for Chemistry. For two, I got part of my Statistics take-home done (to be finished post-post!). All of this is terribly amazing considering how very little I actually feel like doing. I'm having a very lazy weekend.

Last night, I "mastered" (according to my mother) the "art" of making mashed potato-based potato pancakes. You basically make a mashed potato patty and then fry it in a lot of butter. And, when I say a lot, I mean my mom uses like a half a stick for 3-4 pancakes. It's a LOT of butter. But I learned how, which made me feel vaguely culinary, so that was nice.

Then, post-pancake, we went over to Amie's for a little time by the bonfire. It was pretty nice, but most of the people there were raucous and drunk. JJ and I don't really deal well with raucous and drunk. We like low-key, debates about politics, quotes from literature kind of drunk. We're not really huge fans of screaming drunkards. Especially when you consider the fact that last weekend one of our fellow party-goers was so drunk that he felt it would be a good idea to walk across the fire and fell out of the fire pit. All I can say is that I'm glad his injuries were minimal and that he fell out of the fire pit rather than into it. Still, it makes a clear case for the addition of chlorine to his gene pool.

Today, I didn't even want to get out of bed. The last two weekends, however, JJ has skipped his Catia class, and I have irresponsibly let him. So, today I felt that it was utterly necessary to make him attend. Besides, I get quite a bit done myself while I'm with him in the classroom. I return e-mails, surf Facebook, blog, and then do homework. Today, I had the opportunity to surf ThinkGeek, where I saw a really awesome spork that I want desperately. (Save the comments about me being a nerd. I know I am, so shush.)

I find myself really looking forward to tonight though. It's going to be my pre-birthday family birthday dinner. I have requested a special menu of bruschetta, steak, Brussels sprouts, baked potatoes, and oatmeal scotchies. The oatmeal scotchies are a clever alternative to cake because I'm caked out. That and they sounded really really good.

Tomorrow, my actual birthday, won't be quite as nice. In fact, it's going to be pretty unpleasant. I have work at 7:30 AM, which will be interrupted by a lovely visit to the oral surgeon. Hopefully, we can put off the wisdom tooth extraction until Thanksgiving break. At any rate, I'm still not looking forward to spending that much money only to result in pain and swelling. Then, after I come back to work for another 6ish hours, I have an exam in Literature.

My birthday is going to be sucky. At any rate, I'm hoping for a slightly better outcome to the unpleasantries (Yes, I made that word up. Focus, will you?!) because I'm going to play up the birthday thing. "Aww, really? You know it's my birthday, right?"

At any rate, I'm off to do some actual work. Statistics waits for no one.