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At work today Krista and I came to the conclusion that the series finale of Joan of Arcadia, in order to further mirror the story of Joan of Arc, must conclude with Joan being burned at the stake.

Now I normally do not watch Joan of Arcadia and I've only seen one episode of the series since it debuted... uh... some time ago. At the time I felt one episode was more than sufficient. If they were to go this route for the series finale, I think I would be able to make the time to watch it. Again and again.

Now I know that on Clone High Mr. Butlertron computed the odds of the clone of Joan of Arc being burned at the stake at 38%; I wonder what the odds of a character mirrored after Joan of Arc being burned are. Hmmm...

Breakfast of Champions

As I was frying up some eggs this morning it occurred to me, not for the first time, how odd some of our food conventions are. Why is that some foods are 'breakfast foods'? And why are there other foods (and drinks) that get you strange looks if you want them for breakfast?

At first I thought maybe certain foods were just better for starting your day? But breakfast foods certainly aren't just healthy foods. Bacon, eggs, sausage and bologna are all greasy as hell. Other choices like pancakes or waffles tend to be doused in butter or maple syrup. Hell the majority of breakfast cereals are loaded with sugar. It does not seem like it's a health thing.

Now most breakfast foods can be eaten at other times of day without earning you any funny looks. People will often have some sort of eggs, hashbrown and meat combination for their supper. If you try to have a hamburger and coke for breakfast however, be prepared for some funny looks.

And it's not like we have the breakfast foods marked out for the first meal of the day either. If you get up sometime after 11 AM, it's perfectly all right to have any type of food stuff. You can have your eggs if you want but nobody will give you a second look if you decide you'd like to have some mac and cheese or a plate of french fries.

As near as I can figure what we have is just an abritrary convention that between the hours of 6 AM and 11 AM only certain foods are acceptable to eat. I remember going to mealhall back in the early years of university when we used to have a 'breakfast crew' (mealhall's best food was served at breakfast so we'd often go to bed at 4 or 5, get up at 7:45, go to breakfast and then sleep till noon or later). A few of us would sometimes get ice cream just for the hell of it (a practice we did more often once you realized it bugged the hell out of some people :P).

Whatever reason we have our food convention, it's one I shall be making strides to break. I leave for work about 10:15 5 days a week and there's only so many 'breakfast' things I can make in the 15 minutes or so I allot for food preperation.

Productive Findings

I had a nicely productive day today. Well the morning and afternoon parts weren't that productive but the evening part, that was loaded with productivity. I finally added the movie section to TV Incognito with my review of Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter (which also turned out to be my longest and most in-depth review to date).

In addition to site work, I got some work done on my novel (its been slow-going the last little bit but I think I'm finally getting clear of the slow area) and I started work on a nifty short story. I had the idea for it last night and I really liked it so I started putting it into typed form this evening. It's only a few hundred words so far but I'm really liking how it is turning out.

Then in my quest to find out if my site has been processed and added to the major search engines yet (something that I'm really hoping for so I can get readership and hopefully a few other reviewers (which should help to broaden the scope of the site substantially)) I made this somewhat disturbing discovery while searching yahoo.com for "Quilted Porcupine": swimwear personal pics amateur girls (warning: very much not a family friendly link)

As far as I can tell the site strung together dozens of random sentences in an effort to increase hits. The sentence, "Right-angled Congridae originate in the quilted porcupine ball with sent hangman" is included along with many other random sentences like "Unhygienic freight fumble the baffling Goodenia with clearheaded post. Blessed western ragweed pink the Zambian Abramis with accepting Solent. Haunted orthodox sleep gum up the unrifled sirdar with lame giant chinkapin."

I know it's just a random coincidence that put "quilted" and "porcupine" together but it also marks the first time I've searched my nickname on a search engine and found something that wasn't connected to me in some way, shape or form.

The Tiredness Phase

For some reason I was REALLY, REALLY tired this evening. I was fine all day but around 11:45 I felt completely drained. So much so that I eventually ended up laying down for about a half hour. When I got back up I felt even more tired and if hadn't been for the fact I wanted to watch some TV at 1, I might have even gone to bed. And now it's almost 3 AM and there's not a trace of tiredness to be had. Whee!