Doing the Zombie Lurch
I think this sounds hilarious, and I might have to go downtown to see it. As posted on washingtondc:
"More fun things to do around Halloween time: First Annual DC Zombie Lurch!
"This October 29th, we're staging a March on Washington that people will never forget. Starting somewhere in the afternoon (exact timing is yet to be determined), a horde of the pseudo-undead will be shambling about the unsuspecting streets of our nation's capital! Why? Well every zombie will likely have their own reasons, but the majority will be; seeking to consume living human flesh, protesting for zombie rights & hunting for nice, juicy BRAINS!!! (..Good luck there, guys! ;D)
"More information at http://www.renaessance.com/lurchindex.html and dczombielurch"
Speaking of zombies...hey, that's going to be me very shortly! In real life! Some of you may recall that I recently cracked jokes about being the only member of the patent group, since my staff was down to one newbie and one staff member who'd been out sick for a while. I have now achieved a self-fulfilling prophecy, as my newbie resigned via voice mail this morning and my sick staff member had her boyfriend drive her to the office today to pick up short-term disability forms, since she is under doctor's orders not to drive due to her seriously medicated state. Various other staff members are scrambling around to try to help pick up the slack, but it's going to be a bad month or so. And so the lab is once again metaphorically on fire, but it's not going to go away anytime soon.
I have pictures from P-Funk on Friday night, and also of the latest monstrosities that our downstairs neighbors have inflicted on the house (note to 22-year-old neighbors: hippies are so over, and Buddhas are tacky unless you actually use them for worship). Oh yes, they did. They decorated the front walk of our house with not one but several stone Buddhas, to join the overabundance of plant life already festering there - all theirs, placed during the final "nesting phase" of the girl child's recent unplanned, unwed pregnancy. I'm too tired to upload the pix now, but I will. I remarked to some friends this weekend that the downstairs neighbors are just lucky no one in this house is an evangelical intolerant Christian (I have a pretty tolerant evangelical on my friends list, actually), because the shit would be on about those Buddhas. As it is, I am seriously considering adding my own tacky decoration with religious connections to the front yard, as suggested by my friends: a Virgin Mary shrine, as is popular with my people on the West Side of San Antonio. With votive candles, Christmas lights and a halogen spotlight. And a fountain grotto, if I can figure out how to engineer it.
In other annoying news, it looks like the software I need to do my circuits labs is going to cost me an additional $230 that I wasn't expecting. But it's taking me so long to figure out how to do even simple stuff on it, I really need to have my own copies at home, and not just depend on being able to use the computer lab at school in scheduled time slots.
"More fun things to do around Halloween time: First Annual DC Zombie Lurch!
"This October 29th, we're staging a March on Washington that people will never forget. Starting somewhere in the afternoon (exact timing is yet to be determined), a horde of the pseudo-undead will be shambling about the unsuspecting streets of our nation's capital! Why? Well every zombie will likely have their own reasons, but the majority will be; seeking to consume living human flesh, protesting for zombie rights & hunting for nice, juicy BRAINS!!! (..Good luck there, guys! ;D)
"More information at http://www.renaessance.com/lurchindex.html and dczombielurch"
Speaking of zombies...hey, that's going to be me very shortly! In real life! Some of you may recall that I recently cracked jokes about being the only member of the patent group, since my staff was down to one newbie and one staff member who'd been out sick for a while. I have now achieved a self-fulfilling prophecy, as my newbie resigned via voice mail this morning and my sick staff member had her boyfriend drive her to the office today to pick up short-term disability forms, since she is under doctor's orders not to drive due to her seriously medicated state. Various other staff members are scrambling around to try to help pick up the slack, but it's going to be a bad month or so. And so the lab is once again metaphorically on fire, but it's not going to go away anytime soon.
I have pictures from P-Funk on Friday night, and also of the latest monstrosities that our downstairs neighbors have inflicted on the house (note to 22-year-old neighbors: hippies are so over, and Buddhas are tacky unless you actually use them for worship). Oh yes, they did. They decorated the front walk of our house with not one but several stone Buddhas, to join the overabundance of plant life already festering there - all theirs, placed during the final "nesting phase" of the girl child's recent unplanned, unwed pregnancy. I'm too tired to upload the pix now, but I will. I remarked to some friends this weekend that the downstairs neighbors are just lucky no one in this house is an evangelical intolerant Christian (I have a pretty tolerant evangelical on my friends list, actually), because the shit would be on about those Buddhas. As it is, I am seriously considering adding my own tacky decoration with religious connections to the front yard, as suggested by my friends: a Virgin Mary shrine, as is popular with my people on the West Side of San Antonio. With votive candles, Christmas lights and a halogen spotlight. And a fountain grotto, if I can figure out how to engineer it.
In other annoying news, it looks like the software I need to do my circuits labs is going to cost me an additional $230 that I wasn't expecting. But it's taking me so long to figure out how to do even simple stuff on it, I really need to have my own copies at home, and not just depend on being able to use the computer lab at school in scheduled time slots.