Today was another example of why I'm not a big fan of planning schedules in advance.

My original plans for today (as in Saturday, I realize it's technically Sunday now) were to get up around 6:45, order tickets for the RAW show in Halifax (that were going on sale at 7), sleep till noonish and then spend the afternoon working on my Shakespeare essay. It didn't quite turn out that way.

I got up at 6:45 but I realized that Hentai Baka was still in bed so I had no way to order his tickets (he and his gf were paying on a diff card) so I decided some more sleep was needed. Got up again around 9:30 and checked to see if Baka was online and he came online just as I was checking. Then I spent 45 mins trying to order the tickets. Apparently they were going pretty fast. By the time we got through the only seats left were in the upper bowl (or higher) or behind the screen in the lower bowl. We got our tickets for Section 33 of the upper bowl and all was good.

At this point I figured I'd get some more sleep (as I'd only had about 5.5 at this point). For some reason though I simply couldn't get back to sleep so I scratched that plan and just kind of hung around till lunch.

After lunch I decided to get to work. First though I started talking to Granger (who had just gotten out of bed :P). She ended up inviting me over to watch an episode of Trading Spaces we had taped previously. I thought this sounded like a lot more fun than my essay so off I went. After all, it's only a one hour show, I'll still have lots of time to work on my essay, right? Fast forward 5 hours and we return to 4D to prepare for Fromez's birthday celebration. :P Now some people would be frustrated with themselves for having 'wasted' an afternoon like that but I'll choose an afternoon with my best friend over an afternoon of working on an essay anytime.

The birthday celebration itself was also cool. It didn't start off all that great as some people were running late but once everyone arrived things were quite fun. Fromez liked his gift (a couple of mechwarrior booster packs) and you could tell he was quite appreciative of everything. Then we settled in to watch Transformers: The Movie (which we rented for the occasion). I don't know if you've seen it or not but it's an incredibly cheesy (and hence entertaining film). It was nice to just hang out with the whole group and watch the movie. Then we had some cheesecake that Granger and I prepared earlier. Okay, well Granger prepared it, but I did help... a bit at least. :P In any case, it was damned tasty.

This was followed up by much hanging out and very little (read: none) in the way of essay work. I might be doing some right now but that lack of sleep last night has caught up to me and I'm in no shape to be working on an essay.

The moral of the story is friends are more important than academics. At the end of the day, all your work will only result in a letter. Besides, work can be done anytime, so put your friends first.

And now I enter my Quilted Cave for many, many hours of sleep.