My Mouse Trap

Yes, there is a real, live mouse running around in my apartment. I caught it out of the corner of my eye and thought first, "Wow, that's a really large cockroach." But a cockroach it is not. I thought mice only invaded homes with gaping holes in their walls or any place in the movies. Have no fear, the mousetrap has been set. According to my roommate, mice prefer peanut butter and Nutella. I can't say I have much experience in this area, so I will take his word for it. If there is a dead mouse in our dining room tomorrow, I think I'll make him take it out.

I was going to go for a bike ride today in this beautiful weather, but I needed to make some minor adjustments to my bike, and my attempt at handy-man repair failed. I adjusted the brakes fine, but after trying to adjust the derailleurs, I just made things worse. Now the spacing is off and it just makes a lot of noise. Guess I'll have to make a trip to the LBS tomorrow for some fine tuning before I take Sus out for another spin. Sus is my trusty stallion, dubbed as such after a suggestion from Eviatar, the local Hebrew expert.

See, when I got the bike used, it came with decal letters on the top tube that spelled "Jesus." I don't know exactly why the lettering was there, but I must say it was pretty cool riding around on the son of God for a while. Unfortunately, the letters "J" and "E" somehow came off today as I was riding it around the block. Now, it only spells "SUS." My first reaction was, "this sucks, grovel at a Sus." But, as I discovered from Eviatar, in Hebrew, "sus" means "horse." Not exactly comparable to having the Holy Spirit under my control, but empowering nonetheless.



And I have been playing way too much Halo 2. I finally hooked up the Xbox after four or five months of not having a TV, so I'm making up for lost time. Make all the cracks you want, but it is addicting. I should probably budget my time a little bit better, though, dedicate a little effort to more important things, like, say, getting into graduate school. Yeah, that'd be nice.