I had my last exam for school on wednesay. I use the term ‘exam’ loosely – we handed in the answers to two question that my theology professor asked us, and then he showed us some slide show with pictures he had taken claiming ‘the end is near.’ Most of them were photos of people in my class doing various strange things. At the end of the slide show, there was the question ‘what can we do?’ and the words ‘leeroy.wav’ on the screen.
As a World of Warcraft player, I instantly recognized the word ‘Leeroy‘, and I though to myself “there’s no way that’s what he’s talking about. ” Sure enough, he explains the movie to the class, and then plays the ‘Leeroy Jenkins’ battlecry thing on his cell phone. I didn’t think people would appreciate the humor, seeing as how they didn’t play WoW and hadn’t seen the movie, but they seemed to think it was funny.
After I went to hand in that exam, I went to pay my bursar bill for the next semester. I owed $1,100, which was going to put a bit of a dent in my savings; especially because my car needed to get its water pump replaced, to the tune of $200 or so. When I got to the bursar’s office, the lady there told me that although she wasn’t entirely sure, ( because of the way their computer system was set up she couldn’t have an exact look at my bill) but she said that most likely Xavier owed me that $1,100. I wasn’t too sure about that, but when I got home and looked at my bill I realized I’d just read it wrong. I was pretty pleased at that point.
I took my car in to get it repaired on thursday (thanks for picking me up, megan) and they said they could have it finished by that day or perhaps friday. Thusrday afternoon I got a call telling me that not only was the water pump cracked, but one of the intake gaskets was busted and that was causing coolant to leak into the engine. The whole thing was going to cost $800 to fix. I felt pretty bad untill megan pointed out that my school was going to pay me $1,100, So I guess that cancels out.
That night, I went to Bw3’s with Grant Simpson, Bob Doerning, Jeremy and Megan. There it was decided that we would all go back to my house, to have a PvP raid in WoW. We all play on the Dark Iron server, in a guild of our own creation called ‘Invite Only.’ We were all low levels; Megan and I were 17, Bob was 25, and Jeremy was 45. It was great fun and we had a good time until some level 60’s showed up to chase us out of there. We killed some stupid guy named ‘Crumbsdanish’ at least 10 times. Sucker.
Friday morning, I woke up to a message on my blackberry from Adam, my boss at work He asked if I liked skiing, and if I’d be availible for a trip to Utah on January 8-11. I told him, I’d have to miss a few days from school, but sure I could go skiing. There’s some regional sales meeting and he wanted me to come to help update computers etc; he figured we could leave a day earlier and go skiing. I thought that was pretty cool.
Today I tried to make some cookies, with help from megan, for my company’s holiday ‘cookie exchange.’ We were told to make 6.5 dozen cookies, which meant we had to triple the recipe we were using. I decided to make lemon bars for some reason, and they didn’t turn out so good. If you’ve never had them before, lemon bars have a kind of crumbly crust and are filled with this gooey yellow lemony filling that’s pretty tasty. I’d always assumed that the filling was yellow because of the lemon inside; it turns out that the filling is yellow because it’s made with a whole bunch of eggs. After we cooked the things and let them sit, they were still all gooey and runny and it looked pretty gross. I don’t want to feed people cookies with runny egg-yolk product in them, so I guess I’ll be making a trip to buskins tomorrow morning. To buy 80 cookies. *sigh* Hopefully they’re not absurdly expensive.