Day 14

And here is somebody exhaling hookah smoke through their shoe. I don't know why.

Day 13

Today, I had a great deal of fun staying in with my buddy Andrew and just... doing whatever it is we do. It's so bad- I rarely go out anymore on weekends because I have too much fun staying in and being a dork. So here's me. Being a dork.

Day 12

I decided to make a delicious midnight snack of hash browns (I have like ten billion potatoes that will be going bad soonish), and cooked them in my cast iron skillet that had been soaking in the sink for the past few days. I know, soaking a cast iron skillet pretty much ruins it... got behind on dishes, what can I say. Anyway, washed it, cooked in it, then noticed my potatoes were turning a funny greenish-grey colour. There's also little specks of black from the skillet itself. Probably not safe to eat..... (I ate it anyway). Don't worry, the red is Frank's Red Hot.

I'll keep you posted on whether or not I die of lead poisoning.

Day 11

Hole-y crap! My shoes are not doing a very good job of helping me survive the winter. In case you were wondering, having snow inside your shoe is quite an unpleasant experience.

Day 10

I have a canopy bed without a canopy or curtains. I love it anyway. Today, I realised that my laundry was still too damp to put away, and decided to dry it on the best clothing line I have- my bed! Now I can kinda pretend I have a canopy...

Day 9

Some more of the mice I take care of. Again, they're very happy and well cared for little buggers. These particular guys are new and young, and were exploring their new surroundings. While I was in the room weighing them, all the lights went off- apparently the staff adjusted the schedule without informing us. Normally the lights in that room are programmed to go off at 6; imagine my shock and momentary terror when they unexpectedly cut at 5:15. The manual override switch seemed to be stuck, and I couldn't get the lights to go back on- I had to finish my work in the dark. I wouldn't have been so freaked out had I not been in a room full of mouse cages and machinery, in a giant facility with no other human beings in it! At least I hoped there were no other human beings, because all of the employees had gone home long ago... creeeepy.

Day 8

I don't know what it is about these ponies, but every time I drive past them I kinda lose control. They just overload my cuteness threshold, and I begin to squeal like a 13 year old Twilight fan waiting in a crowded theatre for the newest movie to start. They are just insanely adorable. These aren't the cutest two; there are several more ponies in with them that are even smaller and even more squeezable looking. WANT

Day 7

As I was jaywalking across Grand River, I realized I was going too slowly and had to run for it- in the process, my phone fell out of my pocket. To avoid being hit, I had no choice but to continue to the other side of the street and watch as an SUV directly ran over my phone. I thought "Well, that's it, I'm screwed, my phone is gone for good." But when I went to recover it, amazingly the only damage was what you see right here, along with a small crack in the main screen. The camera no longer functions well (it can take pictures but they are wicked blurry), but my phone is still alive! This is after I also dropped it in a bucket of water about a week earlier. What a trooper my little darling is.

Day 6

A poster left from an activity in a previous class. Hmmm wonder what they were talking about....

Day 5

I got bored and decided to draw out my prospective tattoo design in pen. I also noticed that my underwear choice matched very nicely with the bed and my stuffed whale, Shamu. (note Shamu in top left). After drawing this, I decided that I actually do not like the tattoo, nor do I like the placement, so it's back to the drawing board on this one (literally).

P.S. If you noticed it, the rash on my belly is from my belts... I have a nickel allergy and will turn into a very itchy rash up when I wear a belt and don't immediately put medication on it afterwards. Just fyi so you don't think I'm diseased.

Day 4

This picture is VERY bad quality, and for that I apologise. I was trying to discreetly take a picture from the back of a lecture hall. Today, my Physics professor called for a volunteer to help demonstrate how there is zero electrical energy on the inside of a conductor. I happened to know the volunteer, and didn't realise she was in my lecture until I saw her in an electrical cage on the front podium. Odd way to recognise someone. I decided to take some photos in case she wanted to see them; the people around me definitely thought I was a creeper.

Day 3

My mice had babies this week :)

I work in a lab where we use mice as research specimens. Don't worry, they live very comfortably. PETA gives animal research such a bad rep... nobody wants to torture animals. We take very good care of them, and there are federal laws stating that we must not inflict pain on them. If an animal appears to be in pain, it must be anesthetized or painlessly euthanized if it's a permanent condition. Trust me, they are very happy mice. These particular little girls are part of a hereditary study, so we bred them a couple weeks ago, and now... they all have pups! I'm oddly proud of them.

This litter was delivered yesterday. Obviously, that's mama behind them.

Day 2

Kinda lousy picture. Tonight, I went to an on-campus caf for the Martin Luther King Day dinner. I wasn't sure what to expect (surely they wouldn't have fried chicken, right?), but it was decent I suppose. Afterwards we ventured to Blockbuster to rent Royal Tenenbaums for a movie night, and I also bought a few used DVD's from the bin.... Stardust, Babel, and Harry Potter: Half Blood Prince. Meh, the combination of the three was $20... I'm ok with it. I would gladly have paid $14.99 just to buy Stardust, but decided to nab the other two for a three-for-one deal. After Royal Tenenbaums, we played Mario Party. For some idiotic reason I picked Peach. I won the minigame champion star, which is a first in my life.

GOLLY GEE MY LIFE IS EXCITING!

Day 1

Greetings, interwebs. This is my blag. I'm going to post a picture every day, for 365 days... at least I say that. I'll probably give up halfway through, but it will be fun to try for a while.

This picture was actually taken on January 17th, and I just took a while to upload it- in fact, that will probably happen for most of my pictures. It's a fiberoptic flower thing I got at Salvation Army for $4.50, and it reminds me of the jungles of Pandora in James Cameron's "Avatar." I completely fell in love with the world of Pandora... someday I'd like to make a mural of the bioluminescent jungle scenes.

Anyway, I'll try to have a brief story for every day... my story for Day 1: I had sushi for lunch, and it was delicious. [End]