New Hair and Other Tidbits

Guess what I did?

I did this.

Also, how awesome is the legit Wonka chocolate bar?

Also got this fabulous poster to add a little bit of decoration to my depressingly bare walls...

... and caught up on a LOT of correspondence. And I still have more to do!

Thursday night I went out with about 12 other people from my program to the SYP's Pub(lishing) Quiz down at the Blind Poet, which was super awesome and fun, as well as a bit stressful! But we came in second place, largely thanks to Candice, who has a shocking amount of random knowledge, not to mention she kicked ass on the music round (listen to a clip of a song, identify the book/movie, the author, the name of the song, and the artist singing it) - if I was in charge, it would have been a blank piece of paper. The only team to beat us was a group of much older people, so we felt like we had definitely achieved our goal of not being in last place, and then some! Not to mention there was a prize (candy!) for the best team name - which were supposed to be book puns - which we won for the terrible and awesome name "Moby Chicks".

Probably my proudest moment of the night was knowing what a Fibonacci sequence is <-- that link isn't to an explanation on the Fibonacci sequence per se, but a video on the Fibonacci spiral in nature that is one of coolest/most incomprehensible things I've ever watched.

I also learned that The Golden Compass was called The Northern Lights in the UK, but retained the other names in the series. Which is weird, because Canada usually keeps the UK title, its the US that tends to change them.

I'm heading up to a place called The Burn tomorrow for three days on a trip with my program. Apparently its quite lovely up there, so I should have lots of pictures to share from that in the near future!