Judy and the dream of horses

So, we won Trivial Pursuit. It was a freaking juggernaut; down 3-1 one minute, victorious 7-3 a half hour later. But first:

I went to that optional library research thing. It was alright. The speaker was that Kelly again, and she's really good. To be honest, I didn't learn anything I didn't already know, but it didn't hurt to have a refresher, I suppose. I think that Kellogg takes people from fairly diverse backgrounds, which is cool. There are people here that have never really done serious library research, and I'm sure the presentation was invaluable to them.

I went and had a slice of pizza at the Centralized Dining Food Emporium before the Mexifest, which was good thinking on my part because they put meat in everything. The meat dish had meat in it, of course, but the vegetables had pork in them, the biscuits had sausage with them, the salsa had bacon, the rice had chicken, and the potatoes had bacon and chicken and beef with them. What's up with that? Does freaking everything need a slab of flesh tossed on it? Regardless, I had a salad, which was quite good - red peppers with lettuce and radishes and other stuff.

Trivial Pursuit was great. We held our own - I did well at first, but I messed up a question midway through. What fighting machine was originally called a reservoir or cistern? I guessed submarine because it's freaking logical and makes perfect sense. Jan said "tank" because reservoir is synonymous with tank. I said, both a reservoir and cistern are filled with water, as is a submarine, and I guess I was convincing because we went with it, but the answer was tank. All modesty aside, I'm usually right. Not this time. It was tank.

Anyway, toward the end, Frank caught fire. He was answering all these weird questions. One of them had to do with some bizarre Swedish pornographic filmed called "I Am Curious (Yellow)." I had never heard of it, but I googled it, and it's a real thing. Everyone of a certain age in the room knew of it, and everyone under a certain age did not. I think it's a watermark.

I'm tired, and my back hurts. My rubber mattress is killing me. Tomorrow looks good:

9 - 11:30 / Assessment and placement continued
1 - 4 / Accuplacer and Compass

It is true. Tomorrow, I take the Accuplacer and the Compass. At our Institution, I'd bet that I place in college level in both enc and rea, and mat9024 in math. We'll see. I looked at a 9013 final once, and I thought it was easy, but not so easy that I think I'd sail through 9024.

I ended tonight on the phone with Amanda - the same way I begin every day and end every night. Before that, I hung out with Michael and Joe and talked about the Border Trilogy and films adapted from Cormac Mccarthy novels. I'm still interested in the gray area placement testing; I think it's a good idea.

On XM: Sour Times by Portishead. Awesome.