Freakishly Happy

Unlike some of the other masks, these ones made me really happy. They are just too cute walking all together.

Chocolate is good for health and this article proves is:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4755108.stm

John left for his conference in Salt Lake this morning, leaving me to my own devices for a whole week. Too bad my own devises consist primarily of writing my paper, playing web sudoku (his rant got a lot of people hooked, me included, thus spreading the long and reaching hand of sudoku), and checking my email and the website nearly obsessively. If you have the time, please send me a message to help me cope with the boredom being alone. I've decided it's better to be on my computer because it's at least somewhat close to the work I should be doing. I am fighting the urges to clean the bathroom, organize the spice drawer and reorganize the closets.

Today is Fat Tuesday. I'm not really sure what the German equivilant is. As I sit here in my 4th floor apartment, I can hear people in costums walking by on the street below. Most of the costumes are lined with jingle bells, ranging from as big as a grapefruit to as small as a pea. When one person passes it sounds like a whole team of horses decked out in their winter sleighbells. It is especially nice when a whole group of them pass. The whole street is filled with bells.