Last night's surprise activity: playing the Mariokart drinking game at Ben's. I'd only stopped by to pick up some videogames, but, well, my other drinking plans were destined to fall through anyways, and those Law and Order reruns would keep.

(In case I haven't told you: I'm very conflicted about Law and Order. I love the detective work, but I hate attorney James "Jack" McCoy. Unfortunately, I don't like the male leads on either of the two successful Law and Order spinoffs or that scary-looking woman on The Closer, so this is the best it gets. And no, I don't like CSI, which is for the most part a pretty crappy show.)

So. The MKDG (yes, I know: never again) is definitely my favorite, or second-favorite, drinking game. There are alternate worlds where it's all I do, geez what a drunk. Also, worlds where I can beat Ben outside of my home course, Dry Dry Desert.

I don't know why we made up a game where playing worse means that you drink more.

To review: get hit by a shell, and you earn a drink. fire off a blue shell, and you earn a drink. finish first and you can send one of your drinks. finish first without earning any drinks, and everyone else takes a shot. Simple. Naturally you're doing all this drinking after each race, so you can concentrate.

Even after four or five beers, only two things could shake my concentration: 1) meeting Ben's sister, whose unnerving life-size cardboard replica I'd seen several times before, and 2) Ben's continued insinuations that we were in Edina.

Afterwards we watched My Name is Earl, the funniest live-action show on television. Everyone knows about it, but I keep thinking it's my little secret.

The games I borrowed don't seem to work on my computer, but tonight Jenna and I finally started a co-op game of X-Men Legends 2, which plot-wise has almost nothing to do with X-Men Legends. It's fun, but not as much of a bonding experience as you'd think, largely because we spend most of our time trying to figure out what's going on and where we should go.