short/long

This weekend I technically have three days off from school and work. This should make me really happy and maybe excited to have some time off from forced attendance. Alas, I am still stuck with schoolwork and it is making my weekend kind of sucky.

I said kind of because, aside from the parts that suck a great deal, there have been a couple of highlights worth mentioning.

Tonight I went to Rachel and Nathan's for dinner because Rachel wanted to roast a chicken. It was fantastically tasty and also featured potatoes with cream cheese, which may be my most favourite kind of potatoes now. I took some wine, a lucky guess in the liquor store since I don't buy/drink wine under normal circumstances, and worked on the bottle with the other two before dinner. The kids are pretty fun, so that makes visiting double good. Augie is a thoughtful, funny little man and Lily, while similar to a blob that occassionally flails, also is at the fun stage where she giggles for no reason and lets me shift her around in my arms like a bag of flour without complaint.

Rachel found the instructions to the bread maker she gave me from their storage closet, so I'm going to have to get cracking on bread making soon. Maybe my Christmas baking just got easier. I can apparently make a cheesecake and jam in the bread maker, which makes it seem to be a glorified rice cooker; in Japan, I regularly made weird things (cake anyone?) in the rice cooker. I'm keen on testing it out. Who knows if it even works.

Today I took my new birthday present bag from Terry and Kathy out and about, and had a bunch of compliments on it. It's a pretty neat bag, though a smidge smaller than it appears to be. This is probably for the best. I don't really need to carry notebooks and crap like that in a purse.

I didn't actually get any homework done today because I tried to run errands before going to R&N's. Big mistake, as everything is pretty much closed. Except for the library, which, thanks to the new contract, will be closed only for the actual stat holiday and open every other day. I'm interested to see how many people actually show up on Monday; I'm pretty sure people have better things to do on a holiday than come to the library.

Tomorrow I'll be heading to the Remembrance Day ceremony and then drinking at the Billy Bishop Legion in the afternoon. I'm also thinking of going to "Paris, je t'aime" in the evening at the Varsity, but I should probably do some homework at some point. Monday I'll be working on my database project after my landlord comes to fix the loose tile in the shower. It's a temp fix until the owners can come down for a potentially full-scale rip-a-thon, since the wall is probably wet behind the tiles and will need tearing up.

Wow, this is dull. Good times.