When we all decide to move to Canada, we will be glad that somebody came up with this.

It would probably come in handy for traveling, too. "What Southern accent?! I love hockey! Maple syrup! Mounties! Eh?"

Oh, and I just realized I'd been dissing Tracey on my Xanga account. Oooops. Dunno how I forgot to add her to my list. I just spend a while catching up on all the posts I missed. I do not envy her the L.A., nor her filing convertible. Unless it's one of those sporty Mercedes roadsters with the automatic retractable hardtop. Those are sweet.

I think I'll go walk around campus and hand out some posters, and enjoy movement on a good-weather day.

I love the weather today. It's cool and overcast and fluctuates from drizzling to storming. Just the way I like it.

I was coming back from the food carts and took the CivE stairs between Purnell and Doherty to walk down into the Pit. It made me think of the good old days, when Newell-Simon was Building D, and Taste of India was at the end of a long corridor filled with robots and gawking grad students. An adventure with every curry chicken.

I'm trying not to get too excited about the upcoming Spring Break and Ayako's visit - I don't need any other distractions from my goal of sending out portfolio samples and resumes next week. I will get a job. I WILL get a job. Goddamit.

Okay, this failed entry for the design t-shirt makes more sense now. It's a pro-medical marijuana shirt, apparently, but taken out of context and put on the wall, everyone was like, WTF is that??

Oh, and for all you ex-Tartans that haven't heard about the Nap Center in the UC, this was just put on misc.market:

Try the New UC Nap Center!

Re-energize mid-day using our customized Nap Chairs. Or try the Antigravity chair with built-in massage and heating. The Nap Center has ergonomic chairs, silent, vibrating wrist-alarms and light-blocking walls. 20 - 40 minute naps cost only $1. It's cleaner than a couch and more effective than coffee...Try it!

UC Nap Center
3rd floor UC Gameroom, use Skibo's spiral stairs
Weekdays 11am - 7pm, Open until April 4
Student Run, Not for profit

**The Nap Center is a GSIA student project. It is funded by the Health
Center, GSIA facilities, and GSIA's Entrepreneurial program.

While planning our pizza order last night, Laura and I got into a discussion about the proper type of soda for certain foods, and discovered it's very similar to choosing wine. Pizza, for instance, is rather heavy, and therefore requires dark (the soda equivalent of red). Chinese food can go either way depending on the ingredients, but a light pasta or chicken dish is usually served best with light soda (equivalent of white). I suppose the blush wines translate to the fruit sodas like Crush or Minutemaid.

I bought a Boylan's Creme soda today as an accompaniment to the leftover pizza. Definitely higher quality than the Pepsi we had last night, but it was really more suited as a dessert soda, rather than with a meal.

Laura's right. We don't need alchohol to be weird.

Beautiful wonderful gorgeous amazing music this evening. The Chieftains were spectacular. 4 60ish men from Ireland (fiddle, flute, tin whistle, pipes, drums, voice), 2 brothers from Canada who can dance like nobody's fucking business (one of them could win a golden fiddle from the devil, too), 3 Irish dancers, a female Irish cellist with a sad breathy voice, and then the guests - a dozen young Irish dancers from a local school, Gretchen the harp player from the Pittsburgh symphony, a southern redhead with a strong, clear bluesy voice, a guitar playing singer from Nashville, and an assortment of yinzer Irish folk musicians.

The Benedum center is breathtaking. It's somewhere on the continuum between the old movie houses and Versailles. Crystal chandeliers, gilt plaster ornamenting the walls, the entranceway lined with mirrors, the ceilings covered in medallions, angels, griffons, plaster reliefs of Greek figures - the theatre alone was worth half the ticket.

I know want two things: 1) to go to an Irish pub and drink beer for St. Patrick's Day and 2) move to Ireland and never come home.

By the way, Kaya has really good food. Laura and I split a couple of tropas (like appetizers or tapas, or eating family style), both tasty. The decor is cool, too, a bit overdone in some parts but I liked it. Beewee did a good job. :) And apparently the ladies bathroom is painted with an undersea mural, where all the sea creatures have breasts. Laura and I are afraid to know what the mural in the men's bathroom is like.

Ass. Some chick found my e-mail address from roommate service and now I'm on her 'sappy Christian forwards' d-list.

Somebody hates me. If she's going to forward me crap, she should have at least taken my room.

Oh dear God, the awful awful pain:







(thanks to ayako, who forwarded these to me some time ago. cleaning out e-mail accounts is fun.)

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