Heh.

Outside my window, it snows. This is a recent phenomenon, since it was not snowing two hours ago. shadesfox, as you can see, such things really are normal here.

In trivia, my NCAA first round is bad. My upset picks aren't and consequently, some of my other picks aren't going through. I entered a free bracket for kicks, and continue to try and refine my own system to be workable. Hopefully the second round looks better, as all the wrong decisions I made here are canceled out by right decisions later on. you never know what will happen. In NIT news, go Wichita State.

I spent today without consuming any alcohol, as laziness (and work) combined to keep me away. But I did go to dinner with my sister. She brought along a target... err, her boyfriend, whom both of us pelted with straws at the diner. We had a good time, especially since my sister and I are used to each other enough that we can play into and through each other's jokes. It may be not be one of the 13 things that make no scientific sense, but it's probably close.

NASA needs moon dirt. Who knew?

There was a discussion somewhere about licorice on my friends list, and how people liked it and people didn't. Well, it appears, at least according to the article, that licorice also has health benefits. Very cool.

I could use some of those health benefits, actually, as I'm fighting off something - probably a cold, but of the annoying kind that seem to inflict me - slightly sore throat from drainage, and always only one nostril blocked - left or right, but never both. Those types sometimes migrate up into my sinuses when they're done playing in my nose, and then finally go away. But go away they will, even as they dehydrate my lips even more than usual.

Tomorrow? Probably gathering information and applications on possible jobs around Ann Arbor that I can walk to. Likely also to see thesis draft revision. And more amusement as my precognitive powers are proven to be less than stellar. G'night everybody...

Ah...

...well, went to see Steamboy tonight in a packed house (riiight - I knew probably half of the theater audience) and it was okay. The cast was excellent - the ADR scriptwriter probably needs a few more lessons. I picked out a few voices as being familiar (I've seen, or rather, heard, the main cast in other productions and so I went trawling around some resources - that confirmed that I know I've heard them all before.) and have already placed the movie in a fictional sort of timeline with another anime series. Mostly because they share a particular English cast member.

My bracket continues to fall apart, although I did manage to get at least one of the lower seed wins right - it's the only one, I might add, but one is better than zero. Immaterial, for the most part, but for the few who are interested, there you are.

Most would be more interested in something like this: Police arrest and handcuff 5-year-old girl. I suspect Zero Tolerance and a bit of frazzling are at fault here. The frazzling isn't such a problem, but the calling the police bit was a bit of overkill. No exoneration for the child, however, who threw the tantrum. Even if in kindergarten you're supposed to be learning how to get along, there are very few reasons to toss a temper at a teacher. This could have been resolved much easier, but the article hints that calling in the police is a regular occurrence there. If so, whatever happened to the teacher's authority? It would be better to homeschool, then, where the parents can enforce the idea of respect and learning. I suspect there's a funky policy in place there, and I'd like to know what it is.

Ran into some of my old friends at the theater as well, so I know they're alive at the very least.

Any my cold has left my nostrils mostly free - I'm sneezing more than before as a consequence, but it's moved upstairs and now I'm getting a very slight sinus headache because of it. Isn't that fun. Well, I'll get up tomorrow, probably let some of it out with a nice hot shower, then go watch some water polo. And possibly wonder if my bracket is going to self-destruct even more than usual this year. at least that's the least of my worries. I'm turning over the need to revise a thesis (mostly done, I hope), and eventually write two longer papers for my classes. And find a job. Always "and find a job". I'd stay on where I am, but I'm not sure that I'll have work all through the summer, so I need to find something else to suit me. This week went by fairly quickly - maybe it was because I always had stuff to do (plus, revising my thesis, while I slog through it, eats time like popcorn. Two weeks and counting, on both the thesis draft and the campus band material.)

Oh, the drama of my life. I am soooooo exciting, aren't I?