Today is a joyous day!

First off, I got a birthday present from Maya. Gods and Monsters! Sweet, lovely Ian McKellen to warm the cold cockles of my heart. Also, I got a picture of Stan, my MSN smilie boyfriend. (He's the one with a straight line mouth and wide-open eyes.) So they're all sitting in a happy pile on my desk right now, until I get time for movie-watching.

But that's not all. Okay, this begins with a story. When Sarah was very little, we used to have to entertain her in the car. One day, I took the plastic snowman off a Christmas candy-filled plastic cane and stuck it on top of my Chapstick. And danced it about. The snowman stuck on the lid, and I couldn't get it off. So I just kept it on my Chapstick. And when it came time to replace my Chapstick, I switched out the lids and kept the snowman. Fast forward at least six years, and I still had the snowman. I was very attached to it. It had been with me for a long time. Then, just before Thanksgiving last year, I couldn't find my Chapstick. I looked everywhere. I turned the apartment upside down. I had lost it, and the snowman.

I've been despondent. I would be walking to campus, and kind of think about the fact that my lips were a bit parched, which would immediately segue into, "I miss the snowman!" I really, really missed the snowman. Like, a lot.

I found it at work today! It was sitting on a desk! I squealed at a frequency that was inaudible to the human ear, "My snowman!" So he's sitting on my jewelry box right now. I don't care what happened, and I'm trying not to think about the fact that the Chapstick's missing so someone had to have gone to a lot of effort to get the snowman off the lid. I'm just glad he's safe and sound.

It really doesn't take much to make me happy.

New song linked to the left, at the bottom of the column. Check it out, yo. (Please right click and save if you want to experience it; I do not have streaming dowhatsits.)

I like weekends. Weekends are nice.

My roommate just set up a new blog. (Think Blots, linked to the left.) Two out of three posts are about food. Hee, she's so cute.

Last night was the Joint Birthday Extravaganza of Shannon and Jenny, Roommates of Destiny. Well, maybe not destiny. But it was a fun night. We had Japanese food, which was quite good, and we bought things at a magnificent restaurant called House of Pies. Although technically Jenny bought a cheesecake, which doesn't sound like a pie to me, but I'll let it slide this time. You can read Jenny's far more detailed account of the evening here.

I'm trying out that Netflix service, which delivers DVDs to your door and you get to keep them for forever and, like, can rent as often as you like for twenty bucks a month. It's a two-week free trial. I signed up Thursday night, and my DVDs showed up today. Awesomeness. So, I shall be watching some good movies the rest of the weekend. Thoughts on those will probably be posted, since movies = cool.

It's nice having a weekend off. Filming starts to wear you down. I wouldn't mind so much if it were the only thing I were doing, but with class and work and everything else, it's just tough. I think I would have enjoyed one of those colleges where you only take one class at a time, for like four weeks or something, and then move on. That kind of direct emphasis more suits my attention span, I think.

Jogging is hard. We went around campus today, which (allegedly) is 2.2 miles. I'm very tired, now. And on that note...