Sententiae Draconis

So I'm currently baking cookies (choclate chip cookies top be exact) because I felt like accomplishing something that didn't take too much effort and wouldn't tire me out completely. Also we've been talking about doing something like this for our really awesome neighbour for quite some time now. So this morning once I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep again (Curse you internal clock, and you too evil sickness while I'm at it!) I decided to get up and start baking.

At one point in your life you aways wonder why chocolate chip cookies taste so damn good. Then you actually bake some and you realise that it's the two to one ratio of sugar to butter and equal parts chocolate chips.

Now just take a moment to think about how wonderful that is.

In other news I'm trying to figure out whether or not I'm well enough to go to Rugby practice today. I'm feeling much better than I was for most of last week but I'm still coughy and congested and can't quite breathe through my nose. I tried doing twenty and twenty (20 push-ups and 20 sit-ups, normal practice routine) and that was okay, but I think that it's really going to be the running that gets me. I think I'm going to try and go, do the warm up, and if I hack, splutter and cough go home instead of inishing the practice. This is totally a sucky way of finishing off the season.

In less-rugby related news, we are finally having a PRIDE exec meeting tonight. Although it's going to be on MSN. Sigh. Me no likey. But at least we're getting something done. I mean we're not even ratified yet and the showing of Rocky Horror on Hallowe'en is a week away. This is ridiculous!

Must go back to baking now. Mmmmm coookies....

It is incredibly windy and rainy out today which makes me very happy. I really enjoy most of the weather that people call bad. I love rain, and not just when it's a light drizzle but when it's an actual storm. Real weather, the kind that you can't help but be affected by is what it's all about and I love it. Mind you that doesn;t mean that I want to be outside right now getting increasingly damp and cold until my fingers fall off, but I still love it! And if I had some foulies I might do just that anyway.

Right now my pants are pretty wet, and I took the bus home!

Found out today in my Imperial Russian History class that we have a Mid-term on Tuesday. Yay. Luckily I had an extra form for my accomodations and I was able to get it filled out and filed (in triplicate) right away. But since it's not fourteen days in advance I still might not get the accomodations that I should. Sigh. I really hate bureaucracy, even though I do see why it's needed.

I also picked up my external hard drive today. Yeay! He's boxier and far more high-tech looking than William (my old one, may he rest in peace) was, so all thoughts of calling him William II were quickly derailed. I considered calling him HAL or TARDIS, but those were far too geeky and unoriginal even for me. So I've decided to call him Taliesin. After all he is someone who's main purpose is to remember things. (Taliesin is a very famous Bard of Celtic tradition, and since the Celts were an illiterate society all their culture and stories were remembered and told by the Bards. They are so cool by the way.) And while Taliesin is not exactly a high-tech name it's also not nearly as plain as most of the other names that I like, so it suits him. I'm glad that the saga of the Hard Drive is now over, since it means that I don't have to deal (or have my lovely mother deal) with those blasted peoples over at Canada Computers anymore, and I can start organizing my life again and keep backups. And he comes with a velvet bag!

Today is S's Birthday so we're going to have a lot of people over (hopefully the rain won't stop them from coming), since he asked for "loud" for his birthday. Yesturday he asked me if people would take him seriously when he's twenty. He was wearing a bright red and orange turkey on his head. I'm sure you can imagine.

Thankfully I no longer have rugby practice (the rain and wind) so that means that I can help out around here and get stuff done before the party. Ironically we're always cleaner when we have parties because we clean up beforehand and then clean up again afterwards before we decend back into our usual states of messiness.

On that note I'm going to go and do the dishes (C's already vacuumed in the living room) and decide whether or not it's worth it to go back to school for a one hour class on the Bible (Classical Mythology). I think the answer to that last one is probably no, it's not.

It turns out that I can always rely on you to tell me when I should be downloading new episodes of the shows I love. All I have to do is wake up in the morning and read my friend's list in order to remind me that hey, House played last night, or apparently last night was also the first episode of NCIS season 4!

Anyway, thanks all. Much love and not kisses because I'm sick, but mental kisses. Yes.

Also the Rugby Rookie party did not kill me, nor am I especially hungover, just tired and slightly dehydrated. I'll write a more detailed post later, but right now I'm going to shower, remove the marker from my arms and face and then do my homework for the two classes I have this afternoon.

Today we had an exibition game for Rugby so that we who haven't played before could get some experience. There was a Sevens tournament going on so we ended up playing in the tournament (although that wasn't the original plan) and then we played a short game with fifteen as is usual. (The difference between Sevens and normal Rugby is that in Sevens there are only seven players on the team (usually there're fifteen) and the halfs are only seven minutes long instead of forty. As such it's a much faster game.) It was good fun, and we just got our new uniforms for this year. They're royal blue with white and blue stripes on the sleeves and a collar that looks like someone cut off the flappy parts. They fit tighly so that they're harder to grab at, and we have strippy socks to match and white shorts. I'm going to buy myself some spandex and rugby shorts tomorrow so that I have some of my own for practice and the like. Also I'm going to think very annoyed thoughts at the postal service so that my brother's cleets arrive tommorrow. They were supposed to get here on Friday, but they didn't. According to the web-tracker thing they're in Dieppe, NB. Pah. Hopefully they'll get here by tomorrow, otherwise I have no idea what I'm going to do for our game.

I had soemthing else that I wanted to say, but I can't remember what it was. I'm really tired and kinda sore after today's games.

I think I'm going to have a nap.

OH! Now I remember. I've decided that I'm going to go visit Jamie and Company for Thanksgiving instead of having people out here or just hanging here with the boys. I've already bought some plane tickets, and I'm looking forward to seeing him again since I haven't seen him in over three months. I should e-mail him and Adam with my flight times...

But maybe I'll nap first...

RUgby didn't actualy kill me, which I generally consider to be a good sign. I sat out for the tackling because I didn't have a mouth gaurd yet (mine's coming on Friday so in the mean-time I got a super-cheepo one, oh and some socks!) and that was at about the time that I wanted to take a break anyway.

Muscles still hurt like the dickens, and I did go out of my usual way so that I didn't have to go up and down a bunch of stairs on my way to class today, but on the whole I'm still excited about playing and getting to be a part of the team and all that wonderful stuff.

My last post was kinda discouraging I admit, but that was partly because I was realy dissapointed that I might not be able to play, not just the hurty bits.

Vobis gratias ago, familia, for giving me some encouragement. It was exactly what I needed at the time. That and going to rugby and finding many others who were still sore from the Saturday practice.

Anyway, I've got another practice tonight and then tomorrow I've realy got to go grocery shopping because I have almost no food left. Luckily the store is really near by.

ETA: tackling is fun. Also I haven't used fresh Rub A535 in YEARS. THis stuff is amazing.