I need to get better at updating this thing every day. Most of the happenings in my life are pretty redundant but I still manage to forget them.

On Wednesday right before leaving for class I checked my email and found out that my first class had been canceled. I'm glad I checked my email. I wanted to do something productive with my newfound time but I ended up taking a nap.

After my second class I went shopping and got a few new CDs. When I got home I was going to listen to them but I ended up taking another nap. Then it was time for Chipotle. It was the second time that I had it this week but I survived.

Sometime after dinner I managed to take another nap. I'm not sure what was up with Wednesday but I was apparently tired. After I woke up from that my friend came over and we watched some TV and then a movie. Good times.

Right after she left I got a call from my friend who's in town. He needed a ride home from the bars so I drove down there and picked him up. At one point he started talking like Sean Connery. Needless to say, he was pretty drunk. Plus he had pneumonia and was on medication so that probably didn't help anything.

Thursday was a pretty decent day. I had a quiz in my first class but that was pretty easy. I think I only missed one or two questions.

In between classes I went and picked up my friend and took him down to get his truck, which he had left at the bars. I didn't want to accept any payment for being his driver but I did let him buy me lunch. I hadn't planned on eating lunch so that was a nice surprise.

In my next class we had a lecture and then got into groups to work on a small project. We have one major project in that class and then two smaller projects, all with the same group. Then we have a few other projects, each with a different group. It's all ridiculous.

In my next class the teacher cracked himself up. That happens pretty often actually but it's funny every time. This time he was telling us about his Spring Break trip with his International Business class. He told us that when they were in London they road on the Piccadilly Line several times and at one point on every trip a very polite voice with an English accent would come on and announce that they were on the Piccadilly Line and then something about a connect to Cockfosters. Every time this happened all the students just looked at each other with smiles on their faces, trying not to laugh. The best part was hearing the teacher go into his English accent and continue to randomly say Cockfosters throughout the class.

After class I had a meeting about the rat training that I signed up for. There is an Open House in a few weeks and every year for the past 30 or 40 years members of Psi Chi have trained rats to walk across a tight rope at the Open House. I thought this was pretty cool so I finally decided to sign up for it.

We met with the graduate student in charge and she went over all the information, including the latest security measures thanks to our university recently making the PETA website. Go us. After all that we went and looked at some rats. First we saw some albino rats that get to hang out in this giant cage with a bunch of different toys. That was pretty cool. Then we went to the room where our rats were. They are black hooded rats and they're pretty cool. We got to pick out which one we wanted and I kind of went at random. I don't really know what to look for in a rat. I had two to pick from and one was kind of curled up in a ball, hanging out at the back of her cage so I went with the other one.

It was my first time holding a rat so I was a little unsure about how aggressive or gentle I had to be. I think I got it worked out though. She ended up chilling in my arms and giving herself a bath. We get to come up with names and afterward we have the option of taking them home. That's pretty cool and I think I'll take advantage of it. As far as names, my first thought was Asper. I like that name but my mom and everyone else pretty much shot it down when they said "Ass?" So now I'm thinking about PingPong. That's what I wanted to call the latest cat that we got but it was shot down. Now I finally get to use that badass name.

After the meeting and dinner I got a call from my friend in Florida. I haven't heard from him in awhile so that was pretty cool. Then I headed over to my other friends house, the drunk one from the night before, and we played some video games. Video games are a lot more fun with other people. We played for several hours and then I headed out.

I got a call from my friends that had gone to see Bayside. They had gotten back early so they were going to preview "21". I decided to join them. It was a good movie but it was really long and I was really tired. I'm not sure it was the best idea to watch it at one in the morning. After the movie I gave my friend a ride home and then went home and crashed.

This morning I got up earlier than normal because one of my groups was supposed to meet with our teacher to go over the latest draft of our paper. Only one of my group members showed up and the teacher was ten minutes late. It was a good start. I like the teacher though so it was okay. He definitely has adult A.D.D. Three minutes into looking at our paper he rolled over to his computer to show us a video of a tiny monkey riding a mini-motorcycle that he thought was cool. I have to admit, it was pretty cool, but extremely random. Then we got back to the paper. Several times throughout though the teacher got a little bored and started asked me and my other group member random stuff that had nothing to do with the paper. I thought it was pretty funny.

The meeting got over right before my first class started so that was good timing. It was a pretty laid back class and was just an open discussion about iPods and Apple and Zune and Microsoft. The underlying theme of the conversation was differentiation. It went pretty well because we have a class that actually participates. I even offered something which is pretty rare.

After class I went over to hang out with PingPong. We have to let them get used to us for a couple days and then slowly get into the training. I've decided I've coddled her too much already because she doesn't like to leave my arms. My partner and I took turns trying to get our rats to stand on the platform. His rat was all about it. Mine not so much. Every time I tried to put her down she would crawl back up my arms. Tomorrow I think we're introducing treats so hopefully that will be incentive enough for her to part ways with my hands.

My second class was pretty average. Nothing worth noting. After class I had work. Yay work. Today most of the movies were set up on a timer so they started themselves. That just kind of makes you feel worthless. There are still some glitches though so I still had to be there as each one started.

After work I had dinner and finished my taxes. Then I took a short nap. Now I'm watching TV and burning some CDs. My friend might come over later to watch a movie which will be fun.