Turkey for Dee

Ok, let's see. I got a salad from Westlake for lunch. The guy who always tries to talk to me was making salads, so he made me an OMFG huge salad. Huge enough that I honestly couldn't finish it. Uhh, I did a bunch of work today. Not enough to make me happy, but I don't feel like it was a waste of a day at least.

Came home around 7:30-8... Eli cooked pad kee mow for dinner. More Thai food, yay, EXCEPT THIS WAS TOO SPICY FOR ME. Bleh. Still, it came out very well, very authentic, he's getting good at this stuff. Megan and Josh came by around 9 with Gordito's food, finished their dinners here, and then we all went to Sunset Bowl. It took forever to get a lane, they have some small league on Thursdays now. I played one game of DDR beforehand. Before me these two little girls (like 10 yrs old?) were playing DDR. They basically played We Will Rock You on Beginner 5 times in a row. I am not making this up. Then their parents told them to leave, and the one girl had put a quarter in the machine. So she kept punching and kicking the coin return thing until it got stuck and you couldn't PUT any more quarters in. Fortunately they'd left a credit in the machine so I played off that, but... bleh. The guys who played after me kicked it a bunch of times until the button popped back out.

Bowling was good. I got a turkey for my first time EVER. Bowled a 158 the first game and a 126 the second, so I guess I am averaging in the 130's still. Afterwards I played a game of DDR with Keel, who had shown up in the meantime with some other guy I've never seen before. Chris wasn't there, unfortunately. Still, Kyle gets these insanely good PA scores but insists he never wants to enter a tournament. We're talking like... 10 greats on .59 Double Heavy Extra Stage. Oh well. Hey, I almost AA'ed AM-3P Heavy. 37 greats. 34's an AA. Whee!

Came home, been doing random stuff. Mostly worrying about other people. Why is it every time I come home, bad stuff happens to everyone? I'm worried about Rumi of course, and now suddenly Mark isn't sure he can come down with Fuj and Cory, because he can't find his passport. And Steve being sick, blah. Other stuff... this weekend is supposed to rock, tomorrow night is a big hangout at IZ, and Saturday's the Team Tourney and another Bemani party. I'm going to get to help Steve do math, which makes me happy - I like doing math. :) BUT, if things all go wrong, the weekend will suck. I hope that doesn't happen.

Friday Fiver

1. What is your most prized material possession?
I don't know a good way to answer this. If you mean "most irreplaceable", the first thing that pops to mind is my copy of Kernighan&Ritchie's _The C Programming Language_, the original edition... which was a present at the end of PGSS '93 from Kirk (computer science lab&project instructor). So it's got a long message in the beginning from him about how he enjoyed working with me in the CS classes, and how he hoped I'd continue learning C and study CS in college. Then on the next page, it is signed by Brian Kernighan himself, from when he lectured at CMU my freshman year. (Heh, I remember namshubwriter bringing his teddy bear (named Kernighan) to that lecture.)

2. What item, that you currently own, have you had the longest?
My Winnie-the-Pooh blanket, I've had it since I was born. It's ratty and ripped, but oh well.

3. Are you a packrat?
Oh god yes. I really try hard to work on it, but anyone who's seen my room knows that I just suck at the throwing-useless-stuff-out game.

4. Do you prefer a spic-and-span clean house? Or is some clutter necessary to avoid the appearance of a museum?
I prefer a happy medium. If our house was totally clean I would hate living in it because it'd be impossible not to think "OMG if I leave this cup here it'll spoil our perfect house!" But if it was messy like my house senior year at CMU was, I could never invite anyone over, and that'd suck. Actually, what I prefer is having a mostly-clean common living area, and then my own room to totally clutter up.

5. Do the rooms in your house have a theme? Or is it a mixture of knick-knacks here and there?
Only one room in my house has a real theme and I'm sure you all know what it is. Quack. I guess we have a general theme of "too many books", though.