Sep 22, 2009
Solitudes: Day 3
It turned out to be a fairly frantic but thoroughly enjoyable day. Woke up with some tea and inserted the instant breakfast into the microwave. Started the day off with a bit of Warcraft and then the afternoon was spent working on writing. Got my magazine revisions back from my editor. Whoops, I wrote it from the wrong perspective. He wanted them from the first person whereas I was writing the interviews from the third person. No big deal. I still had my raw notes anyway.
Today was to be my birthday party. My actual birthday isn’t for another several days, but I picked this day because it was the day where everyone would be able to make it.
I also did a Family guy marathon of sorts. Big mistake. I always tend to procrastinate. Watched all of season 7 throughout the day while I was playing WoW (Having two monitors is great). 330 rolled around, and it was time to finish my assignment. It was due later that night at midnight. Yeah, big time procrastinator. I got the message one of my other friends was unable to make it. Must’ve caught something extremely bad. I hope she gets better soon.
When 5 PM came, I had to stop my summary assignment. It was time to go. I would’ve been done in another 10 minutes anyway. Went shopping and dropped money on some ingredients for pasta tonight. I should really be supervised better when I go shopping. Probably with at least 2-3 people to triple check everything.
Arrived at my friend’s basement suite. Sweet and sour onion chips and the veggie platter. I had five carrots. Figured that would be my quota for the evening. I introduced my new friend from SFU to my high school friends. She’s still fairly new to the area and didn’t know as much people. I figured I’d try and help expand her social network some.
Anyway, started off with some guitar hero 5. I was supposed to butcher Blink 182’s Rock Show and Elton John’s Saturday Night’s Alright. I wielded that microphone like a meat cleaver, that’s for sure.
Meanwhile, the ones who were most skilled at cooking were busy preparing the pasta and the sauces. Unfortunately, we were only 1 for 2. The Alfredo was lost. I grabbed the wrong kind of cream. Whoops. I thought the marinara was great with the chicken. My other friend’s girlfriend was kind enough to bake me a chocolate cake. Now even though I’ll eat anything, I have supremely high standards when it comes to dessert. I have to say, her chocolate caking abilities were extremely strong. Only thing was the cake had a huge hole in the middle. It was like a donut. A really large donut. I wonder what happened to the middle.
Naturally, as we progressed through the night, it was inevitable that we would reach the stage where embarrassing stories about the birthday guy were told. My SFU friend had been kept in the dark about this. I figured it would’ve been more entertaining if my friends told the story. There’s no way I could do it justice.
On the bright side, they didn’t tell her my propensity for screaming on high velocity amusement park rides.
Finally, we closed off the night playing some Taboo. This is probably one of the best party games in existence. I think some of the highlights of the night were:
“2.99”
”SUBWAY!” (Correct)
”Sapphire”
”RUBY!” (Correct! WTF Matt, how did you guess that?)
Here’s some of the gifts I received. Thanks guys!
The host got me that book. Funny guy! It was suggested that he gave me his own used copy. Frankly, I wouldn’tve been surprised!
This should keep me off of Warcraft for a while. I have this urge to try and solve puzzles.
Yay! Now I can learn more about Warcraft lore!