frightened by dinosaurs

I just watched Jurassic Park. It was frightening. Tomorrow morning I will be learning how to cook "Quebec cuisine," whatever that may turn out to be, at a free workshop. The grinding of the rumour mill has it that crêpes are involved.

Today I learned: one of my roommates had a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig for a family pet when she was younger. Such a thing being illegal in that part of the world, her family spun a web of lies to shield the neighbourhood from the truth. Once, when the pig was squealing audibly from the backyard, they went so far as to claim that their "dog" had simply "tripped."

They later found out that the neighbours never really bought it. It was just so clearly a pig.