The third day of the week

After tuesday and before thursday is of course, not wednesday, but shake day.

The day when cookies and cream shakes with whipped cream and sprinkles and a cookie (and a moraschino cherry but i despise those things) go for just $1.

Thus the tradition goes, you must take a shake every wednesday in the short break after bio and before math. And of course, purchase them for your friends so they don't have to line up for eons since you got let off your bio class early.

Now, if perchance a number of those friends happen to not want the shakes, you now have a number of shakes, n, which >1. Even if it is a reasonable assumption that everyone will follow their predestined fate and eat of the shake, i suppose nobody can accurately predict when they're going to fall sick on a wednesday, or when, for example, they need to go back to their house to get something.

Thus, perhaps, you might end up with a number of shakes which greatly exceeds 1, say, for example, a number which exists between 2 and 4. (yes, an integer, you honors math freaks)

And afterwards, as an afterthought to a BRILLIANT SPANISH TAPAS DINNER WITH AMAZING CHOCOLATE TRUFFLE DESSERT AND SUPER INTERESTING BAD ASS TAPAS DISHES and a NEIL GAIMAN READING OF A BOOK-IN-PROGRESS WITH AUTOGRAPH SIGNING SESSION you might wish to get, say, another shake, when you're at clarke's, a supertypical 24 hour american diner which of course is a novelty since you're neither american nor typical.

Of course you could cheat in the counting because you didn't actually finish ALL of those shakes, but hey, that doesn't mean that wednesday wasn't shake day. =)




Oh yes and the neil gaiman talk was really fantastic and he read SOOOOOO well and so amazingly in -just- the right cadence and accent and flow that engaged and enraptured, with his usual brand of humour brought to life (since, of course, it's him reading it) and it was just spectacular. And i managed to get a book signed for my sister (and, while i was waiting in line, after a great contemplation, with my name tacked on too) which made her excited and happy so that is all good.

It was a good omen. Buy Neil Gaiman's Anansi boys. *jedi mind trick*