World Tree and brownie experiments

So I found this cool brownie mix while shopping on Sunday. Basically, you just add yogurt to the dry mix- I know it sounds odd, but I thought I would try it.

So World Tree tonight was made up of my unwilling test subjects... Mwahaha!

Aside from the "It's not horrible" comment, the reaction was good. Success. They have a number of flavors of this mix. And while raspberry brownies do not at all appeal to me, mocha or mint might be acceptable.

Hmmm, there is always D&D next week.

Becky owns cool clothes- this wonderful blue velvet-like shirt with sparkly buttons. Very petable. Cuddling with Becky on a couch is good.

Money Woes

*Sigh* Yesterday I thought I might be able to go to SIGGRAPH, a big graphics conference. It's in San Diego this year. But I did some quick calculations today, and came to the conclusion that it simply isn't affordable for me, which stinks. Then I found out they wanted students to be there Tuesday-Thursday, and I just can't miss that much class. So the whole issue of money is a moot point for that trip.

However, I really want to go to Florida this fall, for a super-cool get-together with a bunch of friends. It's a yearly thing that we call the Howl, and it's a blast. I had so much fun last year, it's well worth the money to get there. But I'm not sure I'll have the money, and I probably won't know til August. Which stinks, because I could probably get better airfare deals if I started looking around now. And even if I can fly down there, I'll basically be able to pay for food, and that's it. Everyone else seems to want to go to a bunch of theme parks like Magic Kingdom, and I just won't be able to do that. Still, we had tons of fun last year in Maine, no theme parks needed.

I just hope everything works out. I'll figure something out, because I really don't want to miss the Howl.

I'm still not feeling all that great, and I really hope I'm not on my way to getting sick. I didn't get any work done today, between a freezing cold office, paying my rent, and finding out that my paycheck (the first one this quarter) somehow got misplaced. So I have a lot to do tomorrow, since I need to have my proposal handed in to my advisor by 6.

After that I can spend most of the weekend in bed, reading the new Harry Potter book. Yay for good books!