White emblems, feeling sick and falling asleep, ice cream, and bananafish

High-scoring words of the night:

LAV (175 points) - against Alice P. [two 5W]
EMBLEM (135 points) - against Pam H. [two 3W]
WHITE (224 points) - against Nicola P. [two 4W]
BAA (163 points) - against Chantelle S. [two 5W - one used twice, hook off TRAM to make AT / AR]


Called Henry to tell him that I felt sick, so wouldn't be making it out to Awana today; he could certainly tell Auntie Vivian for me, and hoped I got better soon. Possibly! Later, Vanessa H. got on MSN to say that we should do bubble tea; for sure! We talked about growing up with the last name Ho (Holly probably got ALL the jokes!), NOT hyphenating names, Wayne's last name, not naming your kids Ida / Ivan / Tally if your last name was Ho, snow, sending chocolates to Newfoundland (it gets more expensive around Xmas), Tapioca Express Snow Bubbles (coconut smoothie) being gross, Well Tea at UBC (and the different menu), and more. Fell asleep again, then Candy at least let me know that she got my Christmas card - phew! Steph and Lisa were at the Canucks game tonight - yay for Markus Naslund getting his jersey #19 retired! However, the team lost 5-4 to the Tampa Bay Lightning in overtime...


Facebook quiz taken from Nina:

What kind of ice cream are you? Leslie got vanilla. "You are a quiet, calm, gentle person. You love to hang out outside and listen to what nature brings you."


Trivia fact for Sunday, Dec. 12: What eccentric American writer created an imaginary creature called a bananafish? J.D. Salinger, in his short story A Perfect Day for Bananafish. According to Salinger, the bizarre fish was named for a fatal food fetish - it would dive into holes in reefs to search for bananas. It would eat so many of them that it became too fat to swim out.