To be honest, I haven't actually cooked this week. Kirk (my girlfriend, for those of you who don't know) came down to visit Sunday night, and stayed until late Wednesday. Together we went to Valentino's pizza down on the square in San Marcos, and got the most amazing pizza. It had artichoke hearts, spinach, sliced tomato, onion, and feta. SO good. It was a massive pizza, too, so it lasted until she left, and we didn't even touch my quiche, so I still had plenty of that left. Although, I am eating the last piece now. It's still delicious.
So, this week hasn't been healthy for me. The pizza, though delicious, was probably not the best choice, given my options, but oh well. Besides that, at some point I contracted a cold, and am now suffering through the last of it (I hope), and the drastic weather changes here in San Marcos have not helped me feel any better.
Classes have been good, if intense, and I've been kept busy most nights reading frantically to keep up with the lectures. Wednesday night, actually, I thought I had done my homework until I decided to take a second look at the night's assignment, and realized I still had about a page or two to write before I could go to bed. The same night I watched Double Indemnity for my Film and Prose class. The movie was actually really good for the first 3/4's, but due to the rules Hollywoodland had in place at the time, people cannot get away with crimes, so the ending was drastically different from the book. My advertising classes have been boring so far, so I have nothing to report on those. So far, it's just been lecture and reading.
On the home front, I started reading Hunters of Dune, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's interpretation on where the whole Dune story was going. It's been a while since I read Chapterhouse: Dune so I'm slightly lost, but according to the forward, a lot of fans didn't even read through to that final book by Frank Herbert, so I'm actually ahead of the game in a sense. So far the book is alright, though I wouldn't tout it as a masterpiece of sci-fi literature.
Also, I splurged ($8) on a game I've been wanting for a while. It's called Ninja Town, and it's a super cute tower defense game. The story is absurd, in a good way, and the characters are unbearably cute. While these two items usually hint at terrible gameplay, I've found that the learning curve is appropriate (if steep at times) and the gameplay is terribly addictive. The story is filled with inside jokes, and blatant silliness. One great part is when your people are besieged by pirates, and Ol' Master Ninja notes that ninjas have always been better than pirates. So true. The characters are all awesome. From Consultant Ninja with his pie graphs to Business Ninjas who moves super fast due to the quantities of caffeine they consume, each character is guaranteed to make you smile. Whether you've played tower defense games before, or you're new to the playing field, I suggest this game. If you have a Nintendo DS, for your own sake, buy this game. Best $8 game I've ever played.
Anyway, my neighbor just knocked on my door and invited me over, so I'll talk about whatever I forgot to talk about later. 'Til then, eat well.
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