I'm a weiner!

So, not only did I end up winning the Lake Effect fantasy hockey league this year, but also - remember that nerdy chemistry contest thing I told y'all about a few weeks ago? I won the grand prize drawing for that! No, really! It was too funny - I didn't attend the prize-drawing ceremony because I was elsewhere in the building at the time, studying madly for my last organic chem test of the semester before our final exam (which is this Thursday, May 4th - wish me luck, I'll need it!).

So, instead of the 3rd-place prize I wanted, which consisted of an SU chemistry department T-shirt and some gift certificates to some Marshall St. restaurants, I got the big gift basket containing: a woven SU throw, a chemistry department mug, some keychains and junk from the SU alumni office, two Syracuse Stage tickets, a gift certificate to the restaurant that's in the University Sheraton, and a Jim Boeheim Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative plate. I shit you not. What the hell am I going to do with a Jim Boeheim commemorative plate??

Pictures of this bounty, and a brief post-mortem on the fantasy hockey season (not that anyone but me cares about that), will be coming soon. Soon, like, after my exams are all over - which will be by May 10th at the very latest. I promise.

I am not a lazy blogger

My brother-in-law accused me of being one this afternoon. I am not. I'm an extremely busy blogger - so extremely busy I feel like I barely have time to breathe most days, and I am not sure I will be able to keep my head above water for the next month it will take to finish out the semester. Anyway, he's the one who has had his blog since last November yet only made a grand total of 11 posts ever.

Speaking of my brother-in-law, I need a new nom de blog for him, since he is not Bean's mister anymore - and for what it's worth, I think they'll both be better off, since they were just making each other miserable for like, at least the last six months of that mess. I think the biggest downside is that I probably won't get to see Bean as often anymore - not that I get to see much of anyone these days, aside from my DH (tonight was a notable exception, but that was all about dinner, not just socializing).

Anyway. A new nom de 'net for my brother-in-law. Here are the only things my deep-fried brain has been able to come up with after as much thought as I could spare:

• his initials: JEB


• a dumb nickname which I know he hates, like Jimbo


• as with my DH: call him my BIL (but what do I do if I want to refer to him by name, instead of in the possessive sense?)


• something relating to his blog username, like Mr. fun_with_cheese or Mr. my_underscores_are_so_1999

Y'all are welcome to offer input. Suggest something! Suggestions from said brother-in-law will take precedence over anything else, since it's a name for him - unless the rest of y'all can come up with something so good it can't be denied. Heheheh...

And now, back to my regularly-scheduled stress-induced freaking out. That'll probably last until about May 10th. Then you can expect to start seeing regular posts from me again.