Matt inspired me to finally change my byline. He's been through three or four, and I've had the same one the whole time I've had my blog. We were watching our Buffy DVDs tonight and one of my favorite lines came up. Giles: "I believe the subtext here is rapidly becoming, uh... text."

I've never been good at keeping things in the subtext.

We had a great dinner tonight. All week, I've been trying new recipes and I've had several duds. I tried a new stir-fry last night that was much too salty, and a lime and garlic chicken that was nothing special given the amount of work I put into it. However, tonight we got a great one. We had Kentucky-fried pork tenderloin, with mashed potatoes, cornbread, and caesar salad. Great comfort food all around. It was fantastic.

CityTV had waydowntown on tonight. It's a movie that was shot in downtown Calgary. I haven't seen it for awhile, but it seemed especially good tonight as school has me really bummed out lately and I'm missing home.

Speaking of school bumming me out - I still have not told my supervisor that I'm going with Matt to his conference in Hawaii. Things have not been good for me lately - I'm having anxiety attacks every couple weeks and I feel queasy for at least some part of every day (and no, I'm not pregnant, so it's not that). Even though I'm making solid progress on my thesis (I have the first draft of four chapters written, and I'm partway through revisions on them), I still feel like it's not good enough and I'm always nervous about seeing my supervisor at all. I'm terrified of his reaction and can't get up the nerve to spit out that I'm going with Matt on this trip. I'm still getting guilt from him for the Cuba trip, which was my sister's wedding and couldn't really have been avoided. Anyone have any tips for me? We're leaving in about a week!