bone in sub

my good friend derek was visiting for the past 5 days, and it was a ridiculous 5 days. we had barely hung out since he went to university 4 years ago, and even less since i moved to canada 3 years ago, so it was over-the-top.

thursday: a look back on the third presidential debate
friday: i had an awesome lesson, followed by MAX PAYNE which was amazing, and then real-life valkyr. hilarious!
saturday: obviously we were awake all night, so saturday morning started with Schrödinger’s Breakfast. there is an amazing video of this that i will upload at some point. another look back on the third presidential debate, at 8 in the morning.
sunday: the green room, followed by some stuff that is so ridiculous i’m not going to write it. actually, “things happening that are so ridiculous i’m not even going to write them down” is a pretty good summary of the last five days.
monday: live sitar and really incredibly delicious indian food

a great time, but exhausting. i think i might be getting sick now, but that’s what i get for 5 days of partying.

i’m not sure how it started, but since i can remember, every time i see a movie with my family we stay until the end of the credits. occasionally there’s something cool, like the breathing noise at the end of episode I, or some sequel thing at the end of one of the x-men movies. i guess romantic comedies have outtakes. since i stopped living with them, and subsequently going to movies with them, i’ve kind of stopped doing that. the people i go with always have to pee or i’m there with a bunch of people who start leaving anyway.

at max payne i told derek i want to stay until the end and he was cool with it – good thing, because there was a relatively long secret scene about a possible sequel! yes! the bad thing was that this was the 4:30 screening on the friday that it premiered and there were maybe 30 people in the whole screening. this is at the paramount, downtown toronto. it did reach #1 movie this week, though. what a fun movie.

i rode to school yesterday morning without gloves because it was still about 10°, according to the weather report. i didn’t realize it was quite windy, so i had a very unpleasant bike ride. definitely the worst of the season so far. i got out of school eight hours later to find that it’s still windy, below freezing, and SNOWING. that morning’s ride was immediately topped as the worst ride so far this year.

i have a great ski jacket, and cold legs isn’t a problem that i have, so the only issues with winter i have are cold face and cold hands. cold face is more of a motivational problem – knowing i won’t be able to breathe for a second after going outside is an issue when it comes to going to class, but comfort-wise it’s not too bad. cold hands, though, is one of my least favorite feelings of any type. if i were to make a list of my “top five least favorite feelings, physical or otherwise”, cold hands would be in the top three. yesterday was the last day of the year that i will get on my bike without gloves.