Wow! Reading week already! Next week I have no class. Not that I ever had class, but next week I will be positively without elegance or refinement. Nor will I be required to show up on campus Tuesday and Wednesday night to listen to professors and grad students wax poetic about Waugh or Browning.

FYI, the paint tray was waiting for me in the middle of the living room floor this morning. So all dealings above board, there. Didn’t get a chance to see A. since JVL and I got home at around midnight due to me catching dinner downtown with classmates Kai, Steve and Julie from my Narrative Poetry course.

The wings at Mullins’ Pub on Bay Street, by the way, are DELICIOUS and ADDICTIVE. Mmm… saucy. Also? Mark “Marky-Mark” Wahlberg has been spotted on several occasions, bartending at ‘Sage’, the restaurant next door.

On the way home, Justin was playing the GBA game I bought him for Christmas, WarioWare Inc.: Micro Mega Games, and I totally dig it. Partly because it contains a “hidden” game called Dr. Wario which is a GBA adaptation of my all-time favorite videogame, Dr. Mario for SuperNintendo. I think it will be the subject of my next GameRankings review.

Thanks to everyone for their AWESOME response and suggestions for new bed #2, especially for his really excellent and informative link! Working with a restricted budget limited my options somewhat, and I admit I was leaning towards Ikea’s “Sultan” mattress line, since they’ve got it on sale for an appealing 25% discount all month starting tomorrow. In the end, my mother interceded, and ended my hemming and hawing and number-crunching and dilly-dallying and just went to Sears and bought me a bed. Because it was on CRAZY sale (less than the website advertised clearance price), and she’s CRAZY Scottish. Thanks, Mom! Woot, here it is:

SEARS-O-PEDIC® ‘2531SL’ Wellness Series, Chiropractic®, plush pillow-top sleep set
Queen size 60″ x 80″ mattress with 640 coils (Dave’s article said to look for a minimum of 375 in a queen, and 450 in a king, so this puppy should be COMFY!) and matching box spring. The mattress has 4 comfort layers, a 20 oz hollowfibre quilted to 3/4″ supersoft foam superlastic continuous coil for even weight distribution, modular grid foundation, and patented edge supports (whatever the hell that means).

I have no idea whether the “ticking” (the outermost layer of the mattress) is vinyl (cheap), polyester (mid-range) or a cotton-polyester blend (top range). Also don’t know whether or not the box springs has coils in addition to wood or steel bars (I’m guessing not). And we don’t yet have a frame with a centre support; that will have to come later (Ikea?). But I have been assured that there’s a warranty, and it should cover at least ten years. Will probably need new sheets, probably deep-pocket corner again $$$ 🙁 So, it should be another seven years before I have to do this again. Let’s hope I’m still on LiveJournal in 2012.

Today’s least-favorite piece of corporate speak overheard in the office?
“Looks like we’re dealing with a moving target here!” *vomits profusely*