Valentine's Day?

So, get this. On average, men spend twice as much as women on Valentine's Day. What's up with that, eh? I figure that yeah, men can be jerks and all, but why on earth must we buy girls all this stuff? Crass materialism, I say! Bah. Nothing like a holiday to get me ranting, but this one in particular manages makes you feel bad for being single OR poor for being in a relationship. Apparently there are over one billion Valentine's Day cards sent globally. I want to invent a new holiday, a better holiday! Maybe Nathan can come up with a whole post on that one?

So what's up, you ask? (All those who wanted a coherent post: beware!) I'm having a quiet evening; still feeling stuffed up and icky, got a tournament bright and early tomorrow (today?), buncha friends out of town for the weekend, etc. My roommate appears to be talking on the phone about a History Channel special on the apocalypse to someone, and I'm burning a couple of reggae CDs. Amusingly, my CA played beirut tonight with us (for those of you loyal readers from beyond St. Lawrence, our CAs are your RAs), and he was terrrrible. Terrrrrible, I say! On the subject of terrible things, if I am subjected to any additional lists on Facebook of 25 things I never ever ever ever wanted to know about you, I may... something. Blah. Those lists are just such an odd combination of intensly personal yet breathtakingly boring information, it baffles me...

In what was easily the highlight of my Friday, I received a pair of home-knit socks from my grandmother. I'm guessing she ran out of yarn about halfway through, because the toes and ankles are endearingly different colors. What else has been good lately? Slightly fewer people seem to be flu-infected... I had a lovely one and half hour dinner session tonight: we just sat and talked for forever. About weird stuff too, like our favorite animals.... My roommate just proposed that every time a character played by Keanu Reeve is killed off in a movie, an angel gets its wings... I watched the movie Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels for FREE on Hulu, and was much amused. If I'm going to keep randomly promoting Hulu like this, they should give me a couple of dollars, just enough to pay for my weekly apple juice maybe...

Well, I again apologize for actually posting my 2 AM ramblings, but I'll make it up to you with a handcrafted joke:
Q:How many indie rockers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: You mean you don't know? Hehe.