Ruining any possibility of a morning run, I've decided to chat with friends and look up random trivia on Wikipedia: the last 3 searches were - Paloma (I meant the SS Music VJ, Google thought I meant Paloma Picasso, whoever she is), Veyyil (the best Tamil film this year), and the 'GI Joe theme' that I grew up on the mid-90s.

Last afternoon, I Skyped (that's a word in Firefox, and 'Google' isn't?) with Veeru, Suhail and Modi. Among other things, we mocked Veeru, made fun of Suhail's Aussie accent and Modi being the King. The King of what, you ask? Doesn't matter. We also listened to the Johnny Quest theme a few times sang along ('tan-tan-tanananana-tan-tan') and then Modi made the point how stupid it sounded. Quite right, but still fun to sing.

Work took a sudden and unexpected upswing thanks to help from a psych. grad student who showed me how to create movies in MATLAB. Sounds geeky, but it was fun to watch the bee do a 180-degree turn in 15 seconds. Now to solve the memory issue and show it to my prof.

Walking to Schnuck's this evening with my flatmate, I noticed him stepping on a rather odd-looking twig. When nothing happened, I let it go. Only to be a confronted with hissing cousin of what I presume was a dead serpent. He did a jump in the air, as did I, and we were a bit wary the rest of the way - though I did occasionally ask if he thought [random object] was a snake. Didn't appreciate the gesture too much, I think.

Why is buying groceries so much fun? Perhaps there is a neuroscientific explanation for why shelling out money for food is an exciting experience.