Interesting weekend. I busted the footrest off of my table; well, not off but dangling even moreso than before. Umm, watched the rest of Fruitsbasket and the Read or Die OVA's (errr, OAV's? I can never keep straight which it is. I think both might be acceptable actually.) Good animes.

The other night, walking back from Wendy's at like 2am, I looked up at the moon and it had a hazy circle around it. Normally, I'd just be like, hey, that's pretty cool, and think nothing of it. But turns out, this week's Naruto (#69) says that that sort of rainbowy halo is the mark of the snake, and a sign of bad things to come. *Turns out I had a really terrible week after that, so I guess it was correct, more or less. =/

Also, doing something quite out of character for myself, I decided to read the chapter for my accounting quiz. I found one of the passages particularly amusing (Kimmel, Essentials of Accounting. 2003):

In fact, Tootsie Pops are at the center of one of science's most challenging questions: How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop? The answer varies: Licking machines created at Purdue University and the University of Michigan report an average of 364 and 411 licks respectively. In studies using human lickers, the answer ranges from 144 to 252. We recommend that you take a few minutes today away from your studies to determine your own results.

Hah, man, it's funny, cuz I really was planning to do that experiment. I stocked up on Tootsie Pops last year, but never got around to designing a controlled experiment. But yea, those numbers seem off, if I remember correctly. I did like 100 strokes of the lollipop along my tongue and barely even made a dent. Maybe it depends on how you define a "lick." Like maybe you have to take a mini-timeout in between licks so you don't saturate the surface of your tongue. In my preliminary study, I think that might have been the case, and there was a sort of plateauing effect. Hmmm, most interesting. Perhaps I'll take another shot at this experiment after I finish my thermodynamics and fluid dynamics coursework this semester- might give me a bit more insight to analyze the results.