Philosophy

My odd, not-so-relaxing, winter break:

Saturday: Shopping with the boy.
We braved the bitter cold and wind for unbeatable prices at the outlets. Tons of people. Lots of dogs. Lots of smiles. Lots of laughs. Lots of pictures! Lots of fun. Timed just right so we could make our 7 o'clock reservation at a restaurant downtown. Yummy noodles. Did you know that you need a minimum of 4 people to go lazer tagging? Completely lame. No laser tagging for the two of us. But lots of Planet Earth!

Sunday: IKEAAAAAA.
After having a mini-panic attack, brought on by incorrect directions given by my mother resulting in claustrophobic me driving straight into the heart of downtown New Haven (hate driving in cities with a scared passion), the boy and I happily explored all the wonders IKEA has to offer, with our coffee beverages in hand. Then back home for hot pot and beer - what a meal. Plus shots of baijou. Yum.

Monday: Guitar Hero-mania.
The boy left, along with much of my sanity. Played Guitar Hero World Tour for a good couple of hours. Almost got through Sweet Home Alabama. Determined not to do any work. Realized that not bringing my physics book home was a major mistake.

Tuesday: Glee fail.
After working for a good part of my waking hours and eating through a large pile of frozen food, I was excited to take a break and watch Glee, which I thought was at 9. Unfortunately, it was at 8. My parents laughed at me. More time to work on my organic chem labs, I suppose.

Wednesday: Why is everything expired?
So, I wanted to make alfredo sauce to go with my pasta, but it expired in 2009. I wanted to make brownies with chocolate chips and peanut butter chips, but the brownie mix also expired in 2009. Good thing there are about a million brownie/cake mixes in this house. Brownies were a success! Definitely need to be consumed with milk though.

Today: Roller Coaster Tycoon 3
Somehow, whenever I come home for break, I end up playing my old Roller Coaster Tycoon on the PC at home. So today I decided to download the game for mac. Cue the extreme decrease in productivity. Apparently in the new game, if you don't pay your staff enough (i.e. handymen, mechanics, etc.) they'll get really unhappy and ultimately quit. You can counteract this by increasing wages, disciplining your staff, or just firing them. I decided to do the latter, and just kept a steady cycle of staff. Ah well. Currently working on my bitch of a biology report rewrite. My TA thinks that bracketing all the figures and tables, with uninformative arrows is actually really clear and constructive criticism. Yep, yep, definitely see what you're saying there.