So, today was pretty average until I was driving home from work. After work, I got a couple of nice things, one of which most people won't actually think is all that exciting, but which I am really freaking psyched about. Anyway, first: weekend summary (which, despite being called a summary, is still pretty long).
I took off about half an hour early from work on Friday and drove to Grand Rapids to meet up with 5 friends. We went out to a sports bar for dinner and I got a really good burger, plus a free appetizer (courtesy of the two who organized it, Branden and Jess, who had a bunch of coupons). Then we went bowling, which was a lot of fun. I did my typical not-so-great in the first game, significantly-better in the second game thing and ended up a little over 140 in the second game, which I was happy with. After that, we went to Branden and Jess's apartment and played some Wii until it got late, then we drove to Holland and went to bed.
Saturday was basically trying to fit everyone I wanted to see into one day, which was... interesting. It started off with brunch with Angela (hash brown omelet apparently = hash browns on the outside with an omelet in the middle. VERY tasty), then some walking around Holland with stops at a couple of shops (the Peanut Store has a great bulk candy selection!) and grabbing a temporary parking pass from Campus Safety (apparently free now, which was nice). Then I went disc golfing (which IS in fact different from frisbee golf. Who knew?) with Becca and Mason which was a lot of fun. After that I visited a couple of friends (Brendan and Laura) still living in campus housing, which was neat since I hadn't seen them or the buildings in months. After that was hanging out with other friends (Ross and Steve and the guys they life with), one of which had a sibling visiting (Ross's brother, Adam) from out of town who I had met and gotten to be friends with last summer, all the while running about 15 minutes late. (Whee run-on sentence!) By now I think it was dinner time, so I met up with Becca and Mason (on whose pull-out couch I was spending the night) and we went out to a Chinese/Mexican/American all-you-can-eat buffet. It was pretty good, although it was a bit strange seeing orange chicken, lasagna, general tsao's chicken, and chicken burritos all (literally) right next to each other and not in a cafeteria. Anyway, after this I went back to Ross's apartment and there was apparently a music fraternity & birthday party going on, which involved basically no alcohol and instead an excess of cupcakes and candy. My kind of party! After this I called up Becca and Mason and it turns out they were watching a movie with some other people, one of which was my freshman-year roommate, so I went over, said hi, and watched the first two-thirds of Role Models before people decided it was bed time (which was much earlier than Friday night).
Sunday was basically just sleeping until 11, showering and packing up, saying bye, and driving back to East Lansing. Once I was here I proceeded to procrastinate on my homework and play some games, of course.
Anyway, today was basically just lab work all day. I made some progress and I know what I'm doing, but I'm getting a bit burned out in this lab. The rotation goes until the end of April, though, so hopefully I'll get a second wind pretty soon. For dinner I decided to get some take-out. The main reason was because... a Tim Hortons opened down the street! I haven't had Tim Hortons in a long time, so I got a bagel, some soup, tea, and the ten Timbits you see below for about $5.50. That makes me feel like I'm getting ripped off when I get lunch on campus. Oh well. It was really good and they have free Wi-Fi, so I might end up spending more time there. Probably not, because I can always get it to go and just use my pretty awesome internet at my apartment, but who knows.
Once I got home and had dinner I played some WoW. This was the highlight of my day, honestly. The first little bit wasn't all that exciting, just running around doing some quests, pretty normal stuff. Then I got a pretty freaking sweet piece of armor. (Feel free to skip to the last paragraph if you don't want to read about game stuff)
For those of you that don't play but are, for some reason, still reading, here's a short explanation. Normally to get this armor you have to beat the hardest bosses in the game (with 24 other people), get a token (which at least 2 other classes in the game also need, so you're probably fighting with at least 4 other people for it), and turn it in to get the armor. Or you can collect emblems (about 2 per boss I think) and turn in a bunch of them (about 30-40 I think) for the armor. As you can tell my numbers are really rough because I never really expect to be able to fight those battles, nor do I really want to, since they involve a lot of scheduling and, probably, more stress than it's worth.Instead, once a week, I get in a group to fight one boss. You can fight the boss on two difficulty levels and you can do each difficulty level once a week. On the easier level he drops two random pieces of second-to-best armor, and on the harder level he drops 4 random pieces of best-in-the-game (at this point) armor. The armor is class specific, which means, since I was the only Warlock in the group when a Warlock piece of armor dropped, I automatically got it! And it was on the harder difficult, so it's some of the best in the game, unless I get into the really hard bosses, then there might be some slightly better stuff. I'm not really sure. Either way, this is the best possible stuff I can get with the effort I'm willing to put into it, so I'm more than happy.
Also, there's apparently a Facebook app based on Risk, so I'm playing a game of Risk with 4 other people and kind of dominating. That's basically a first for me, so that's pretty sweet too.
