Eldrad must live

Today was fun - went out to Borders to pick up a birthday present for my stepdad, then hung out with rathershady and our former coworkers Jill and Victoria at Mike's Tavern. Oddly enough, though I've gone to school just a couple of blocks away for most of my life, It's the first time I'd ever been there. It is pretty much a college-student dive (and the fact that they had construction going on didn't help the classy ambience any). Still, it was fun to hang out there with everyone. Afterwards, we went to Governor Stumpy's - I'd dragged Vinnie there a couple of times, and Jill had stopped by for my graduation party, but Victoria hadn't been there before and I think she enjoyed it. And I'm fairly certain the one bite of lemon cake she ate for dessert made her a believer. >D

I've been glad I've been keeping relatively busy this week; it's done a pretty good job of distracting me. June is always a hard time of the year - the 12th was my dad's birthday (on which I didn't call him, figuring I'd wait till Father's Day, something I'll probably always regret), he died late on the 14th, and I heard about it on Father's Day (which was the 15th that year). So basically from the 12th through Father's Day is kind of teh suck. On Saturday I'm going down to Higginsville to visit the veterans' cemetery where my dad is buried (well, his ashes anyway). And hopefully that'll put an end to this difficult part of the year.

Also, my sister is coming up from Phoenix to visit in mid-July. It'll be nice to see her again, since I haven't seen her for a couple of years (not since right after Daddy died and I got back from England).

In cheerier news, some positive linking:
- A new King Tut exhibition has opened in L.A. I'm totally seeing this when it comes to Chicago (since that's only a 3-hour drive from Iowa City).
- This is an interesting article about gender and the brain. At least, I find this kind of stuff interesting. -_-;
- And stolen from jokersama, the BBC's opinion on the Michael Jackson verdict. XD

Edit: Wow, my mouth is like lusting for strawberry. I had a strawberry smoothie earlier and a frozen strawberry margarita with dinner and my mouth is still "AUGH GIVE ME STRAWBERRY GRAR." But I have no strawberry-flavored stuff to give it. ;_;