The first official snowfall at Hilbert, yikes! The little snowflake vampires are on a mission to suck the colour out of everything, blanketing it in a cold and slushy sheet of white. But what's super bizarre is the thunder. A snowing thunderstorm? That's a nature first for me folks. I need to get some Vicks but it's wicked out there!


the view from my apartment


a few hours progression, snow is still falling!

Team Nothingness has completed its tour of duty on the Canisius co-rec soccer circuit. Hopefully we'll reunite for a different sport next semester. Ciao!

Some of you may remember Avantika and Manish from my birthday party. Hopefully you were among those who had the pleasure of meeting these fine folks. They invited Bernard and I over tonight to help celebrate little Kush's first month of being on this planet. So sweet! Ciao.


bernard and I helped celebrate


sweet little kush


proud new parents, manish and avantika

Diagnosis:

You were male in your last earthly incarnation.

You were born somewhere around the territory of modern South of Latin America approximately in 1300.

Your profession was warrior, hunter, fisherman, executor of sacrifices.

Your brief psychological profile in that past life:
You always liked to travel, to investigate, could have been detective or spy.

Lesson that your last past life brought to present:
You should develop your talent for love, happiness and enthusiasm and to distribute these feelings to all people.

I just picked up a relatively healthy Aqua Mouse at the shop. I'm sooooooooo happy. As it turns out, something was wrong with the shifting cable and it wasn't able to properly lock in park. This was, as a safety feature, preventing the car from starting. Best news, this time, it only cost me $40!!!! I think that needs to go down in the record books as the least amount of money I have ever paid when taking my car in for repairs. Sweet! So, to all of you that have been so kind as to give me rides during the last 3 weeks, I am most grateful. You know I will return the favor any time! Ciao.

I went to a gathering with (mostly) members of my Canisius program cohort. It was really nice to get to chill with them outside the context of the classroom. Here are a few photos of the nonsense that ensued once the Tooters and Jell-o shots came out. Yes Tooters, (e:Ladycroft)’s favorite test-tube treat! We missed all ya'll that couldn't make it. Enjoy.

me and my hilbert homie lori


amanda, me, alicia and lori


a tooters toast to cspa class of 2007


aj and cristina


annie, jen and alicia


amanda and me


loquacious lindsay crying over issues with her nachos


me, alicia and amanada


me taking a photo of this cool infinity candle thing


here comes jen with the jell-o shots


cheers


lindsay crying over issues with her jell-o shot


anisha and kelly bustin moves


linsday, me and jen: starting to get silly


alicia


jen setting up a game


me, annie and jen: now silly


lindsay is schnockered


me and annie: still going


aj says: have a nice day


malcom says: those fools are hammered


annie knows he's right


me and kelly: afraid of something perhaps?


alicia and jen: hey baby!


me and anisha: chillin


kelly says: what's this timika?


it's my uber cool glowing sea creature!


ass!!!!!


me, annie and alicia: i don't know...


the group

So, my joy in only spending $200 to fix my car was short lived. Yep, you guessed it, Aqua Mouse won’t start. One start to get it home and now it’s dead in the parking lot. I could cry. I could scream. But I remember reading a quote by (e:Jason), that when life hands you lemons say, “Hey, WTF is this” and throw them at people!!! Yah, I think I’ll skip the crying, skip the screaming and just go straight into throwing. If you see a woman skillfully beaning people in the head with lemons, seek shelter.

My dad picked me up after work and took me home so I could pick up my car. It's fixed, hurray! It only cost me $200. The old problems are still there, but the fact that it starts and is running, well that's just peachy. He also got the blinkers to work properly. Now it's time to detail Aqua Mouse with glittering letters. Maybe I should do it tomorrow while it's supposed to be another lovely fall day.

Since I was right near my house I took an hour of my day to chill with my little Bambi. I love her so much. I feel so sad when I go see her, knowing that we both miss Twigi so much, and now that my mom is off visiting my pregnant sister down in Mississippi, she's all alone all day. Poor thing was giving me sugar for 30 minutes, non-stop! Not that I'm complaining, it's not like I'm getting sugar from anyone else!

I'm busy finishing a mid-term due by midnight, but I wanted to send out Happy Halloween wishes to all!


I donned one of my renaissance outfits for daytime wear. I was happy to see a few of my classmates dressed up as well. Lucky I brought my camera along!


I know everyone has already seen my outfit, but I managed to make a few adjustments yesterday which really improved the overall quality. I painted my chest plate red, coloured my arm cannon the proper bluish-green, and added a green tinted visor to my helmet. People thought I was really intimidating, so I guess it worked! Ciao.

I had a lovely time at the party folks. I wasn't going to go because I was too depressed, but circumstance encouraged me to attend. I'm glad I did. I got to test pilot my Samus Aran suit. Thank you for the warm reception despite my botched helmet and incorrectly coloured arm cannon. I'll have you know BOTH of these details have been remedied this afternoon. I will post a photo after tomorrow night's festivities so you can see the changes. I was impressed with a few costumes so I want to give props to (e:Matthew) as Aquaman, (e:Mike) as Gobo from Fraggle Rock, (e:Jill) as Poison Ivy and Jim as The Joker. (e:Flacideness), I didn't even ask if you were portraying anyone specific, but I dig your threads. I do admire great creativity! (e:Metalpeter), glad you could make it. (e:Demartiste), thank you so much for aligning my back and ankles, even if we did scare (e:Josh) a little bit! (e:Springfaery), pleasure to hang with you again, we must do the (e:peepettes) night out SOON. (e:Terry), I can always count on you for a little groping, but (e:Flacidness) is right on your heels! (e:Paul), good job as the bomber, you blended right in with the furniture, I hardly saw you! Forgive me Brother (e:Jason) for it has been 3 weeks since my last confession....

Instead of my usual listing of names I thought I would go with quotes for the evening's photos. Enjoy.

Samus's arm cannon is no match for my Tirdent!


Samus threatened to shock us with her energy beam if we didn't pose with her.


She has no idea I just shorted her self-destruct sequence, hehehe.


Do I have to pull out my squirt gun?


Josh's 'make a wish' come true, a visit from Samus Aran.


Hey, who farted!?


It wasn't me, tee-hee!


Yesssssss, my long hair is a chick magnet.


This week's episode - Cumbersome costumes: The art of drinking shots through straws.


You're really cute Mr. 80's fake tanner boy!


Next on Fraggle Rock, Gobo meets a girl.


She just flashed me, yeah baby.


Like a deer in headlights, this tractor beam thing is too easy!


Mooooooom, they're doing Madonna again!!!


My what a big cannon you have.

• gasping*

I'll handle this folks!


Can you identify this ass grabber?


So, I hear you guys are wanted in Gotham City?
I'm wanted in 4 galaxies. What up!?


Cheezy engagement photos gone wrong, next on Springer.


(Gobo) I'm gonna scratch those skanky hos!
Get off Mr. 80's fake tanner boy!


Golden.


Thank you, and goodnight.

Ciao!