This Cake is NOT a Lie... And Other Oddiments

So, it's been about a weeks since FASS 2010 rolled it's final credits and, over all, I think it went pretty well. We seem to have had the most ticket sales since sometime in the mid-90's (including largest crowd for opening night since around that time too) so hopefully that is a sign we were on the right track. And despite some of my complaining in my previous post, I did end up having fun with my part - though getting the second role added (the Wise One) helped a bit. Plus for both roles I was able to wear a costume that wasn't just jeans and a t-shirt which is always nice. In fact I think that the Kirby costume turned out rather well and for the Wise One, well, it's always nice to have an excuse to wear my cape (and I got a funny looking robe). Also, the Friday Late audience suitably amused me this year.

As seems to be becoming a post-FASS tradition for me, I hosted a small gathering at my apartment today since it is, in fact, the third iteration of "Wear You Under on Your Head" Day, also known as "Why I Voted for the Provincial Liberals" Day or also, more officially yet more boringly, as "Family Day". I made some home made pizza and a couple of tastey cakes. Or rather, one cake in two parts since I made round cakes but did not layer them as is traditionally done with the round cakes. And now that I think about it, why is that, exactly? Why doesn't anyone make single-layered round cakes like one would with a regular rectangular cake, or non-circular layered cakes? Or, if they do, why aren't the more common?

But that's really somewhat tangential to the real matter which is to show pictures of my two half-cakes:


I made a Kirby cake! The lettering on the cake is Kirby's first line in the show. His fate, in Final Fassity MMX, was to shut himself in the bathroom and eat himself to death (a la Pizza the Hutt from Spaceballs). Here we were able to eat him one last time, and he was very tastey.

Originally, I had planned just to do the one cake, but when I realized that the circular pans are only about half as big as the rectangular ones and that I'd have half a cake left over I decided...


...that I could make a Pac Man cake as well! The letter here says "Do you like falafel? Nom nom nom..." because in the penultimate scene, Pac Man kept going on about setting up a falafel stand. I actually iced this cake first since I figured it would be easier (and it was).

Despite that my cake decorating skills are clearly underlevelled (I've never been able to get the icing satisfactorally smooth, in my opinion) I think they both turned out ok, especially considering this was my first ever attempt to actually try to decorate a cake. In any case, they both served their purpose and amused and were enjoyed by all.

In a way, I feel a little bad eating such adorable cakes, but now I get to eat Kirby and Pac Man (or what's left of them) for the rest of the week.

Anyway, that is all for the moment.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

'Tis the Season... Not

So, I was at the mall today to get some thank you cards to send to my references since they were pretty awesome about getting the reference letters in for the Vanier scholarship on such short notice. When I went into the card store I couldn't help but notice that they ALREADY HAD CHRISTMAS STUFF OUT. And it's only early October. I mean, cripes! I know capitalism/materialism is getting a bit out of hand these days, but still, couldn't they at least wait until after Thanksgiving? (*)

Sigh.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

(*) And by Thanksgiving, I mean Canadian Thanksgiving which is this weekend.

Sand, Surf and Freaks

The civic holiday was this past weekend. I don't really know what the civic holiday is supposed to be for, really - to me it's always just been a day off. But that's ok! I like days off.

On the Friday evening I saw the new Harry Potter movie (#6). I enjoyed it, though I thought they could have probably spent a bit more time on the backstory around Voldemort and the horcruxes since those will be important for The Deathly Hallows. Though, last I heard, the last book will be turned into two movies so I suppose there'll be plenty of time to cover those.

On Saturday I went to the beach with a couple of friends. This was really one of the first beach-worthy weekends we've had this summer. The drive was longer than I remembered, but it was definately I nice day for it. 'Twas a pleasantly lazy day at the beach.

The rest of my weekend was fairly uneventful, though I did get some project work done. Hopefully the rest of August will be nice and I'll have a chance to get out and do some more hiking and stuff - well, what passes for hiking around here, anyway. As I have often lamented, it's really just going for a stroll in the woods, compared to anything involving mountains.

Anyway, Freak Out,
-TFitC

Second Annual "Wear Your Underwear on You Head Day"

In the last provincial election (what was, oh, about a year and a half ago, I guess) I made no secret that I voted for the Liberals and also made no secret that my sole reason for doing so was because they'd promised to create a new statutory holiday in February. Well, I don't remember if they actually specified the month, but regardless, shortly after they were elected they did just that, so my expectations were met - not, I suppose, that they were terribly high to begin with.

While the actual holiday is called Family Day, I've always maintained that they could call it, "Wear Your Underwear on Your Head Day" for all the difference it really makes. I just wanted an extra day off.

So, yesterday was second annual "Wear Your Underwear on Your Head Day", though I did not, in fact, wear my underwear (or anything else) on my head. And now, as a university student, it's Reading Week.

Freak Out,
-TFitC