A Trivial Interlude

There's two things that I learned from Liz's birthday party last night. Firstly, it is a smart move to block your ears and not participate during a mass balloon-popping ceremony, lest you compound your already heinous migraine and possibly extend it for another twenty-four hours or more. Secondly, visually entertaining pinatas are much more enjoyable to demolish than the standard ones.

Unfortunately, the only pseudo-decent camera phone image that I managed to get of last night's unforgettable aesthetically challenged amphibious avian pinata apparently exceeds the maximum message size by six kilobytes. Scaling it down simply would have not done it justice. Therefore I thought it would be better to confront you with a remarkably low-quality image taken in the night mode.

As you can see, the duck was made from two cardboard boxes taped together. Note the entertaining eye drawn on the side of the so-called head (although it isn't particularly visible in this useless photo). Even more entertaining was the fact that the eye on the other side had a much larger iris. The feathers are what made it overall, though. Cynthia came up with the ingenious idea of giving it curly feathers on its chest, and on its shoulders. If you aren't finding this funny, it's probably because you had to be there.

In other non-related-but-just-as-trivial news, my friend and co-worker Michael had his former majestic mop of hair crafted into a marvellous mullet for fundraising purposes. He has generated upwards of five hundred dollars on the condition that he keeps the mullet for a month. I was the only person he ran into not to immediately comment on it, as I for some reason was under the impression that he had actually willingly chosen the style and I was afraid of offending him. Besides, guys just aren't supposed to comment on each other's haircuts. It's just not right. I now take questionable pride in presenting you with a scaled-down image that does do the subject justice. Or not. My goodness, camera phones are overrated. Still, enjoy.