I've even raped and killed a mountain panda in the hills of Shaanxi.

Finished The Game while sitting at the Keytarded "victory." (And by victory, I mean those fuckers cheated. You canna trust old people.) It was fascinating. First of all, I like reading about pathetic guys becoming cool, and that's a big part of the pick-up artists. Second of all, I like reading about celebrities doing stupid shit, and by celebrities I mean Courtney Love. So it was pretty engrossing. I am one of those people who can ignore the bad nasty parts of theories and scenes and focus on just the positives (although I also often do the versa), and so I focused less on the misogyny of it all and more on the narrator, who just became less pathetic and even fell in lurve.

Although the girl he ends up with for two years then dumped him for Robbie Williams.

In other news, this Intelligentsia coffee really is good shit. I was about to add another sugar when I was like "Wait, this is nice."

The person in front of me at Starbucks left without their latte. Or perhaps there was a miscommunication, b/c my latte was preceded by my latte but "extra-hot". In conclusion, I got two lattes. And the complimentary stirrers in our kitchen are now the double-chambered red/white kind. I think this is going to be sweet.

I was originally going to write a long post about my evolution as a cook, but I noticed that if I didn't leave RIGHT THEN the bus would leave without me. Instead I'll tell you that I'm going to have a cappuccino in the Italian cafe downstairs, and then Pho later.

shit, you know what's good?

coffee brewed with cardamom seeds.

While Tully's is a little bit pricier than Starbucks, their Weird Fancy Drinks are so far all better. The only exception to this is the vanilla latte, which is same across the board. However, as the one by my office is no longer serving banana bread, they ultimately lose.

In other news, Reg did proper shopping yesterday, bought expensive fruit and cheese and Pringles. I mean, I know that relying on a boy for groceries tends to be an impractical idea, but he did well. I keep thinking I need to make hummus and soup (as I did get a blender) but then I forget.

I basically had a headache from 4:45pm yesterday to about an hour ago, and what you may ask got rid of it? A Grande Macchiatto. "Coffee, I'll never doubt you again!"

I inflated the air mattress and put it on top of our bed. Helped to a degree but I think we maybe should take the mattress off too.

I'm going crazy insane with book recs. I have the greasemonkey plugin that checks the SPL for the book you're looking at on Amazon, so I just click and there it is. Unfortunately fiction book ISBNs seem to not match. But it's easy enough to click one more button and type the name in, and this is how my hold list grew to 20 books. The only way it could be better is if there were a netflix equivalent, instead of actually having to drag your carcass to the local library.

I made some morning glory chai last night. It's really hard to make if you don't have a large strainer, so I guess I'll get one. which means another trip to BBB. Oh noes. Cos I hate that place. Not. It's like a miniature IKEA without all the stupidly expensive furniture.

ah, caffeine makes the headache go away.

two days and I'll be on the road to Bickleton. Talked to Matt Prime and Paul and Shannon and Ephraim about camp plans last night. Whee! Weather looks great.

Finished the oscar wilde book and a totally fucking awesome true story about a Canadian biologist who hangs out with Arctic wolves. He's dry and sarcastic and hilarious and clinical and deadpan about it all, but still manages to show his sentiment and warmth for the wolves. Brilliant.

Since i've been sick I've been drinking tea tea tea, just re-using the same bag till no matter how long I leave it in, the water refuses to turn bright orange. And of course this doesn't contribute to a very high caffeine consumption rate, so my tolerance has gone down a wee bit. I just had a double mocha and I'm flying. Woo boy!

My coffee tastes like dog hair.