Oh be joyful! Oh be joyful! Oh be joyful put your sorrows away!

It's so amazing that last I had six people in my apartment that I have known for almost ten years, 12 years, or 18 years respectively. We just fell back together and made our taco salad, lit candles, sang grace, reflected on our lives, and talked about the future. It was an intimate camp night and it was lovely. Seven people is just about the right amount to fit in my living room and around my dining room table. This was the first time since I moved in to the apartment that I've actually had a dinner party and it was so great! I even made an impromptu cake because nobody brought dessert.

It as all very camp-like... except for the addition of the wine. Winey wine wine. Between the seven of us we drank seven regular bottles and one magnum. Yowza yowza! We were a little smammered by the time we got into bed at 2am. We were even too drunk to sing. That's pretty drunk. But it was so nice!

This morning the crowd dissipated and around ten the four of us who were left went for breakfast and Dizzy's. Yum Benny's! Then they stayed and helped me do dishes which is wonderful because I would likely still have a giant stack of dishes if it weren't for them!

Lovely lovely times. Now I must hunker down school styles and get through these last two weeks. It's getting serious baby!

I'm robbing you. Don't freak out.

Turns out the anxiety of last Wednesday night was actually the onset of a violent violent flu. No amount of poking could have stopped the flu induced anxiety! I woke up periodically feeling nauseous all Wednesday night until I gave in at 5:30am Thursday morning and vomited painfully and feverishly and continued to do so twice more before 7:15am. At that point I called my boss to say that I could not hang out with the tinys on Thursday, which was sad but very necessary, and then I lay on my couch trying not to puke all day. That was the worst of it though. Friday I managed to eat a rice cake with peanut butter on it and some egg fried rice for supper and since then I've been slowly increasing my food intake.

I'm heading into my two weeks of academic pain right now... potentially more than two weeks, but hopefully it won't be so bad. I've had to get an extension on a paper due tomorrow because it's just not happening, but maybe I'll crank that one out between today and tomorrow so I can move on to the next paper fiasco. It be a fiasco.

So all of you out there that are desiring my presence... you're not getting it for awhile. After this Saturday I'm declaring no more socializing until April 10th. Good Friday will be good indeed. After that I'll have all kinds of free time where we can have coffee and I can feel panicked about not doing a whole different kind of work. Yes? Yes.

Also, I feel it's important that you all know that I will not be playing the Twitter game. I'm out. No tweeting for me. I only know one person on twitter and he hates being communicated with, so I declare that I just don't get it, and I'm out. I just can't keep up, though I kind of like the bird metaphors.

Spring makes me want to buy things and that is a problem!

Hold devil's pot of tea Mulan!

Thank that sweet God of War for my Steve who makes me feel better with silly videos. Willis! Willis!

We've Got the Sparks

Everything before 4pm today was wonderful! First I had a lovely dream where I met Judd Apatow, Jason Seagal and Ryan Reynolds and Apatow agreed to make a movie that I pitched to him and was really excited to introduce me to Seth Rogan, and I got lots of hugs with Jason. We're best friends now. That's right.

Then I headed over to baby camp where I hung out with 11 wonderful 3-4 year olds. There was much glueing, singing, hand holding, and wiping of runny noses. You know you're back into it when you say things like "Oh hello Mr. _____ (I like to call little kids Mr. and Ms.) I'm quite an expert nose blower. Can I help you with that drip you've got?" and then I hold a kleenex up to their little nose and they blow. Twice for good measure.

It was very wonderful to be back in it and get little hugs and hold little hands. I'm excited for tomorrow, except for the part where I leave early to go to my class that I am not prepared for. Yeesh. I was feeling so amazing about school and life at the beginning of this week and then 4pm hit and it all when to hell. My heart started palpitating and I've been on the verge of caffeine/anxiety induced tears for the past four hours. Less coffee tomorrow.

Made to Bend in the Wind

For some reason daylight savings for Steve and I meant switch our body clocks entirely. This is not good. All week we've been staying up past four and then struggling (and mostly failing) to wake up in the morning. Not good!

In the bluster of today one of our balcony couch cushions flew off our balcony and on to one below us so now I have to play the awkward game of knocking on doors. Hopefully it will be okay.

In addition to my lack of sleep I've also done a lack of school work, which is troublesome. I just want to play!

Can't wait for next week's episode! Oh wait, I'll just watch it now.

My current lack of sleep is lining up nicely with Mulder's lack of sleep in the episodes of X files season two that Steve and I are watching right now. It's so funny watching these water-cooler type shows like ten years (or more I guess) after the fact. I wasn't quite old enough to be into the X files when they first came out, I just know the opening credits credits creeped me out. I kind of did the same thing with Buffy last year where I just kind of wanted to go back to grade eight and talk to everyone about the wacky plot twists. Does anyone care that right now I just want to know what happened to Scully! Damn that Duane Barry! I'm an after-the-fact nerd. I think next I'll have to take on ER, because that was another show that I didn't really have anything to say about in grade eight. What a bizarre dvd time we live in.

no sleepy

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I had a coffee at 8:20pm... but it's 2:48am and I am not sleeping. Silly. I got some work done, but it's never enough and now I've got the achy body feeling like I can't possibly do anything more but I have the jittery brain. Not only that, but my brain is jittery and my left temple is overwhelmed by a blinding piercing pain! Yay!

Now would be a good time for someone to come and give me a massage or something. I'm in the strange state of being where I want to stare off into space but when I do I feel useless! And so I blog.

Becca has an innate disposition towards licentiousness

So much work to do to make life easier! I had my check-in appointment today at ye olde MS clinic and it went quite well! I don't have to do an MRI this summer which is nice, then no more appointments until October. Woot. (I wonder what I'll be doing in October...)

After my appointment I bought, what I like to call, desperation jeans. I have no more jeans... so I bought desperation jeans so that I have pants to wear tomorrow. I think I like them enough that they could become my favourites, but who knows. At least I won't be wearing sweat pants.

All I want to do right now is procrastinate and watch TV on the internet. Oh how I love tv on the internet. I'm going to make some tea and settle in with the articles I need to read. I have so much tea right now! It makes me happy. I made wheat free chocolate chip cookies to go with my tea this week but steve and I finished them last night. They were quite yummy. I almost went and bought more butter tonight to make more, but I stopped myself because that would have just been a tool to avoid work.

I really felt like I had more interesting things to say...