Drumroll please...

...and the answer you have all been waiting for...the roommate is not a douche!! In fact, he's really great so far. In fact, he is kind of from Calgary...I say kind of because he grew up in Sparwood, BC...the place with the coal mine and big giant Tonka looking truck...pretty sweet place if you ask me! However, he went to SAIT for a while, and came out here to do some engineering studies at the college out here (he doesn't actually go to UVic), and after 6 months here, he goes to UBC for a while. He is a vegetarian, he likes hockey (though he prefers the Canucks over the Flames...booooo hissssss), has a car (quite handy, I must say), doesn't make fun of the rest of us for being so lame/weird (at least not yet), and seems to be easy to talk to. Therefore, I can't write any witty entries about how much of a douche he is...well, at least until he makes one wrong move!! haha...just kidding!!

In other news, I'm back in Victoria. It's rainy. I looked like a drowned rat when I got home, and still had to venture out to buy textbooks and groceries. But a very productive day it was. Made fun of Dave a little (haha, not really), met Hamish for sushi and coffee, watched some of The Office, made Vietnamese Salad Rolls for dinner, had ice cream cake for dessert, and chatted with the roomies for a bit. Now I am off to the first UVSMEA exec meeting of 2007...and then to the school to practice and drop off my instruments. All in all a decent day. Already missing everyone in cowtown...wishing we were still in canmore! Kristen, I love the pictures...especially the one of the boys setting up the cot...that was quite the adventure.

Well, I should go...at least I don't have to go far for my meeting...I simply have to walk downstairs to our kitchen!

Floccinaucinihilipilification

I believe that I could justifiably depict this Christmas holiday as epic. That's right...EPIC (that was for those of you who think I overuse this, the epitome of all words, haha)!! Between the abundance of skating, gingerbread, an amazing Martini Mingle, Laser Tag (2nd last place baby!!), hanging out with my awesome friends and family, realizing how awesome I really am at hockey, and a road trip to Canmore for New Years, I think this was possibly one of the best trips home ever (kind of like how my grocery store in Victoria is the best grocery store EVER, haha)!!

I learned some stuff too...for instance, that I was wrong for thinking that the longest word in the dictionary is, in fact, not "antidisestablishmentarianism". This is a common mistake made by many. Thanks to Reid, I now know that the longest non-technical word in the English language is "floccinaucinihilipilification"...29 letters of pure genius!! It only took me about a week to learn how to say!! It is my new favourite word. It sounds funny...maybe that's why I like it. So, I finished packing, and decided I should google the word. It took me a while to actually figure out how to spell it, but once I did, BAM, I found a plethora of information!! So here are some links to explore in case you love this word as much as I do...

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/floccinaucinihilipilification
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-flo2.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio/txt/s1469179.htm

The last link makes an interesting point...there is actually another word in the Oxford English Dictionary that is actually longer than "floccinaucinihilipilification"...it is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" with 45 letters. However I don't think it comes even close to the collossal ;) awesomeness of "floccinaucinihilipilification". Besides, it's the name of a lung disease, and is therefore far too technical to be included in the running for the longest non-technical word in the English language.

In other news, Ice Age 2 is awesome...some may say it is a children's movie...but I like to think I am youthful and full of life (except when I come off my sugar high and start to fall asleep) and am therefore allowed to enjoy animated movies in which a mammoth hangs itself upside down on a tree by its tail...and appreciate the homeliness of the sloth with a lisp. You might even say that this movie is epic...OK OK, I'll stop!

Well, tomorrow I head back to the island for another month and a half before my next trip home...I plan to keep my readers informed and entertained throughout my time in the windy city...hopefully I won't be hit by any falling trees, though it would be a pretty good story to tell on my blog.

My next update...maybe tomorrow, or soon thereafter. The topic, you ask?? I think it shall be, "Is my new roommate a douche??"

Yup, that sounds like a good topic...