Alive, somewhat

I'm alive, and no I haven't forgotten, I've just been swamped with the essays due on Monday and Tuesday and thus I don't feel justified in writing something for 20 minutes or so when I should be writing my essay.

That being said I burned 2 hours this weekend already re-watching Russell Peters and burned a good bunch more playing Chrono Cross, so... -_-U

Had a very, very nice Thanksgiving Dinner last night. Katherine and Haley decided to cook up a dinner for some Eden Court/Hamilton Hall people, and it was awesome, even though way more people came than the people who signed up o_O;; Mad props to them (and the other girls that pitched in with food, like the sweet potatoes).

I still cannot wait for Supreme Commander to come out. Total Annihilation 2, basically. It's going to be sweet. I know a lot of people were sort of cautious about it, but Chris Taylor hasn't screwed up on a single game yet (Total Annihilation, Dungeon Siege, Dungeon Siege II... TA:K was not his doing), so I have a lot of trust in him.

I also discovered I'm down to 7 gb of memory, so I'm going to have to do a lot of DVD burning after the essays are done >_>

On American Commercialism and hilarious culture shock

So yesterday I was talking to Alex, and I gave him the Christmas Lights video I stole from Eddy's profile. Promptly, Alex begins groaning about how there're stores selling Christmas lights and that sort of good American commercialization stuff. Tim (my roomie) walks in a few minutes later, and I crack a smile as I glance back, saying, "hahahah they're selling christmas lights already."

"It's November!"

Apparently it's still fairly bad over here, but not as bad as the States, as I'd imagine those things would have already been hanging soon after I left. Good stuff. At least it made him laugh a lot.

Pratik then proceded to send a very strange Darth Vader video that gave me quite a good laugh. "Your lack of faith is disturbing... so piss off." "The most important thing is that this... never... happened." Actually he sent it to me a while ago, I think, I just never noticed it.

Russell Peters owns, by the way.

By the way, when I went to look for the Russell Peters video on google, this is the first video I got (totally unrelated to the search, it was the first video on the random ones they first show you, also, don't click if you've got people you don't want to see weird things watching, like your boss at work).

(22:36:45) ch624: silly japanese people
(22:37:03) ch624: damn guys and their androdgeny

EDIT:
Great E-Bay listing, by the way, courtesy of Eddy.

How important IS alcohol to having a good life?

So, I found it ironic how these things happen the day after I read the information about one of Dan's books. Under Lord of the Rings, it was questioning how important beer is to a good life (a reference to dwarves and taverns littered throughout Middle Earth).

So, as I've told some people, today was Raisin Sunday. Tomorrow is, unsurprisingly, Raising Monday, a holiday because of some tradition I don't really understand. That being said, let me try to explain it to the best of my knowledge.

In this University, there's something called Academic Families. That is, students get Academic Fathers and Mothers who are older students. Lends to one happy (and often big) families.

On one Sunday that I don't think I need to mention, the fathers have a party. Apparently in recent years, this means they get their children to drink as much as possible. That is, again unsurprisingly, what happened to my roommate, who is currently curled up in bed after several hours of vomitting and overall drunken deadness. Tomorrow they'll be heading out, terrible hang-over and all, carrying "something heavy" and then engaging in a foam-fight, where they'll get pneumonia.

Beautiful, isn't it.

They swear it's fun. I don't know, man, freezing your butt off while having dreadful hangovers and stinking up the room with your vomit does not sound too appealing. Especially if it's causing brain damage.