On to 2008!

So far, the best events of the new year include my successful baking of a tasty carrot cake, our team winning a local pub's Quiz Night (we went from an awful second-to-last one week to first the next) and my friend Mike's birthday (he would be Chemistry Mike, but he's the only one). Since he has a particular aversion to corduroy, we naturally decided to make his birthday present entirely out of corduroy. The brainchild of my flatmate Caryn and dorm-mate Aisling, this marvelous idea expanded to involve a pair of corduroy boy scout shorts, a corduroy bow-tie and elbow-patch set, an utterly fabulous corduroy princess hat complete with tassel, a pair of corduroy Y-fronts (for effect and not meant to actually be worn), the Corduroy Ninja, and a corduroy Anthropology Tom. Mike was a bit baffled but on the whole quite pleased with this array of corduroy-tastic items. The photos are: "The Process," "The Evolution of Mike's Amusement," and "The Corduroy Ninja and Tom." I'm particularly proud of the Corduroy Ninja, my big contribution to the collection (except for the sword - we had to ask Cody, our resident video game and weaponry expert, to make that).