In case you haven't met him yet: Joseph Adama   And if you don't mind HUGE spoilers and you're an A/R fan, go read this.

In other sci-fi news: I've decided that the only way I'll read Invincible is if the library gets it or I win it in a contest. I know some of you are trying to stay spoiler-free, so I won't go into details. I'm sure if there's any J/J goodies, someone on the f-list will post about it. (I'm looking at you amphetamine_47 )

In the non-sci-fi part of my life, I spent last weekend at a baby shower for my friend and then went on to see mustafear and my favorite boys and dogs.  the baby shower was awesome.  When it was over I went back to my friends new place and helped her unpack all the little clothes while we explained to her husband what some of the gifts were for (i.e. the diaper genie). 

My sister comes home on Sunday for the summer, which is muy exciting.  I miss her mucho. 

Tomorrow I'm subbing for the English teacher I had for half of my time in high school.  It's funny yet scary at the same time; the man is not one with whom you would want to mess around. 

Anyway, it's just one of those nights where you're waiting for it to be a decent and non-embarrassing hour to call your bedtime.

Saturday:

• Christmas gathering with my Mom's side of the family
• Moved half of my stuff back home

Sunday:

• Cleaned my room and found seventy dollars
• Used newly found money to buy my first cashmere sweater at Old Navy for $40

Monday:

• Went to Bloomington to pick up the rest of my stuff and see my cousin and her boyfriend
• Held babies
• Attended my favorite church service of the year
• Had the traditional Pseudo-Family Christmas Eve gathering
• Found out that after 20 years, one of my pseudo-moms doesn't always remember how to correctly spell my name
• Got a Star Wars daily calendar with lots of pretty pictures that are begging to be made into icons
  

Tuesday:

• Opened presents
• Saw National Treasure: Book of Secrets which was entertaining
  

Wednesday:

• Drove to Ohio to hang out with my former roommate
• Drove forty miles in ninety minutes (Cincy rush hour sucks) to hang out with mustafear for a couple of days
• Played Star Wars Lego for the Prequel trilogy, which is incredibly inferior for Lego Star Wars II
• Went to the Gap clearance out and purchased five dress shirts and two sweaters for a nickel (thanks to my cousin and grandparents for giving me gift cards that covered the remaining fifty-five dollars)
  

Thursday:

• Had a mini-photoshoot with the boys, their Christmas tree, and their lightsabers
• Ran around town some more
• Was grateful for not having to drive
• Got beat at Monopoly by a seven-year-old
• Watched the BSG mini-series and "33" (sidenote: is it time for season 4 to start yet? or at least buy season 3 on DVD?)
  

Friday:

• Drove home with taking my first overnight trip to Z's without it being official (those who have been there know what this means)
  
• Attended a pseudo-brother's wedding
• Watched The Prestige, which was an interesting movie that I almost had fully figured out (which is good for me)
• Saw the top 20 of AFI's most recent Top 100 films
  

Saturday:

• Slept in
• Unpacked all but Bertha (my stinking huge suitcase)
• Tried to go to B-Dubs (Buffalo Wild Wings) to watch the IU game on the stupid Big Ten Network with my Dad, but a lot of other people had the same idea
• Instead got wings from another place and flipped between the Giants' valiant effort to take down the Pats and the first National Treasure movie
  

Sunday:

• Finally updated the blog
• Started freaking out about student teaching, which starts a week from tomorrow
• Had dinner at Stir Crazy, which was okay, but the company (one of my Stephanies) was a big boost
• Found out after living here for 20 years that the mall closes at 6pm on Sundays
• Browsed in Barnes and Noble for over an hour without spending any money
• Saw Charlie Wilson's War which, like the other Mike Nichols' movie I saw, left me feeling like I wasn't quite intelligent enough to watch his movies (the acting was great, I just don't get really excited with the vibe of his movies)

-Watched last night's episode of Chuck.  There were too many great things to list, but we'll just say it was an amazing episode.  Great idea to bring the Black Friday funny to the Buy More.
-Bought Fury and might scrap some homework tonight to read it simply because Aaron Allston is my writing hero.
-Kendra in the middle of updating me about stuff at work: "You look really pretty today."  Me: "I didn't shower this morning so I'm compensating with a ton of makeup."
-Bought a Geek Squad flash drive since I've lost my old one.  I named it Nerd Herder to be fair to Chuck, Leroy, Ana, and Lester.
-Wrote a three page paper and once I turn that in and go to a meeting tomorrow, I'll have one class finished.
-Finished off my portfolio (which is probably over 30 pages thick) for my literary class.
-Currently at least 3/5 pages away from finishing my term paper for history.
-Knew I needed a break from being a grad student by all the stuff I turned into rainbow colorings tonight at work (including shift forms and excel spreadsheets that were highlighted in beautiful colors).  Granted, Jessica would tell you this is not out of the norm, but I try and hold back while out in public so people don't laugh at me.  Like Kendra did.
-Helped open doors for a woman with 3 beautiful kids under the age of 5 or so.  The one in the stroller gave me a huge grin, and of course I returned it.  They were so cute.