Curse you, Neherenia...!

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.  (All my buddies in DFW, my 'mano in California, my family in the Carolinas...)	✓ I don't watch much TV these days.  (Sad, but true. There are a lot of series I'd love to watch, but I can never get it together and keep a schedule.)	✓ I own lots of books.  (HAHAHAHAHAHA. Enough said.)
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.	✓ I love to play video games.	✓ I've tried marijuana.  (Just the once. Didn't care for it, actually.)
✓ I've watched porn movies.  (Funniest damn thing I've ever seen. THERE WAS A LETTER. And somehow this meant there must be sex.)	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.  (I suspect this is the case, but I can't really be sure. Nobody's issued restraining orders, in any case.)	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.  (Usually. Please DON'T tell me if you're going to have to kill me later.)
✓ I curse sometimes.  (Despite the shocked expressions it sometimes earns me.)	✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.  (I think I'm always changing mentally, actually. I am a regular psychoevolutionary extravaganza.)	✓ I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.  (Does a purple-handled pocketknife make me a hick, or just a biologist?)

( it goes on... )

Birthdayings...

So, I have a confession to make: Though I wanted to see everyone, I was honestly not looking forward to the portrait aspect of rabidlemur's birthday party. I'm not good at being on either side of a camera, and not very artistic, visually speaking. But I went because I love Lemur and wanted to be there for his birthday celebration.

I had a BLAST.

It was really fascinating watching everybody dress up and pose, and seeing what sort of ideas people came up with for photos. I have some amazingly talented, photogenic, and creative friends, and it was cool to see everybody in action. I'm really looking forward to round two - and hopefully this time I'll have a chance to bring my own costumes and props for general use.

Pleasant surprises are good! :)

Edit: The spoils of our evening are here. Damn, my friends are talented AND beautiful. The pictures are awesome!

Today's for housework and homework, and at the moment I'm taking a break from reading assignments and doing laundry to have some dinner and mentally unwind, a bit. I've got a goal for this evening, which is to finish my reading for this week (another 60 pages or so, which will take me a while) and to work through the godawful hydrology equations that I should probably learn how to solve before my test next week. :P If I can get those things done today, I'll be pleased, and feel a lot better about my workload.