the country is a trash fire but at least we have horses in costume
the fun fruit at work this week is... a giant pomegranate. wtf. i have no idea how to eat one other than to cut it in half and chew on the seeds, but if no one claims it in a couple days i think i have to bring it home. i mean. giant pomegranate.
otherwise work is work. the new partner is still high maintenance in weird ways, i haven't done anything dumb yet, and we're still in the post-busy season lull. it's ok. we haven't had any little office celebrations for the red sox winning the world series, but maybe it's just not that big deal any more. (i called my parents last night and talked to my mom because my dad was watching the game, and every so often i could hear him say something and then try to explain to my mom what was happening.)
are all the americans reading this registered to vote? altho i think by now it might be too late in some states to register if you haven't already. i voted on saturday - i love early voting, i have to say - and went out for brunch with tamalinn and got rained on. >.< it was pretty stormy. but i voted! and got my comics and made rice krispie treat pumpkins for the halloween party (on friday i made chocolate covered pretzel zombies, which look more like aliens) and, uh, went to the halloween party. i wore jeans and a black shirt - because the bloodstains won't show :D - and brought yellow rubber gloves and the closest thing i could find to a syringe, which was supposed to be used to squirt water in your ears to clean out the wax. i half filled it with blue water to look toxic. i also brought a cereal box for the pun of it. and i ate an inadvisable number of doritos. >.< there was a lot of food, including rice krispie treat monsters, which were made with pistachio instant pudding mix and candy eyes. (each one was rolled into a ball like the pumpkins, and decorated with a single eye.) i highly recommend instant pudding mix in your rice krispie treats. company was fun, food was good, small dogs were adorable, asshole cat was decorative and not excessively assholish.
you can probably tell i've never covered a pretzel with melted chocolate before. they tasted good, tho.
this makes it look like the reese's peanutbutter cups are supposed to be little hats, rather than stems.
an ad for erectile dysfunction drugs. that particular t car was plastered with them. someone had an editorial comment.
i still have half a giant bag of mini pretzels. i took all the leftover m&ms and mini reese's peanutbutter cups to work today to get them out of the house.
prohibition almost killed the cocktail, probably because, you know, they were illegal. but pre-prohibition, the us had a pretty fabulous cocktail culture.
so apparently during the 30s a bunch of co-ops started in california, in which people traded work for services and food and managed to actually be productive during the depression. then the wpa came along and offered cash paychecks, and the co-ops died off.
nasa names twenty-one new gamma ray constellations, including ones named after the hulk, godzilla, and the tardis. space nerds are the best nerds.
and speaking of the tardis, check out this little free library in detroit.
this clydesdale is dressed as an at-at. because what horse doesn't want to cosplay?
photos of libraries, from baroque and classical stacks to super modern buildings to mobile libraries on the backs of trucks and donkeys.
otherwise work is work. the new partner is still high maintenance in weird ways, i haven't done anything dumb yet, and we're still in the post-busy season lull. it's ok. we haven't had any little office celebrations for the red sox winning the world series, but maybe it's just not that big deal any more. (i called my parents last night and talked to my mom because my dad was watching the game, and every so often i could hear him say something and then try to explain to my mom what was happening.)
are all the americans reading this registered to vote? altho i think by now it might be too late in some states to register if you haven't already. i voted on saturday - i love early voting, i have to say - and went out for brunch with tamalinn and got rained on. >.< it was pretty stormy. but i voted! and got my comics and made rice krispie treat pumpkins for the halloween party (on friday i made chocolate covered pretzel zombies, which look more like aliens) and, uh, went to the halloween party. i wore jeans and a black shirt - because the bloodstains won't show :D - and brought yellow rubber gloves and the closest thing i could find to a syringe, which was supposed to be used to squirt water in your ears to clean out the wax. i half filled it with blue water to look toxic. i also brought a cereal box for the pun of it. and i ate an inadvisable number of doritos. >.< there was a lot of food, including rice krispie treat monsters, which were made with pistachio instant pudding mix and candy eyes. (each one was rolled into a ball like the pumpkins, and decorated with a single eye.) i highly recommend instant pudding mix in your rice krispie treats. company was fun, food was good, small dogs were adorable, asshole cat was decorative and not excessively assholish.
you can probably tell i've never covered a pretzel with melted chocolate before. they tasted good, tho.
this makes it look like the reese's peanutbutter cups are supposed to be little hats, rather than stems.
an ad for erectile dysfunction drugs. that particular t car was plastered with them. someone had an editorial comment.
i still have half a giant bag of mini pretzels. i took all the leftover m&ms and mini reese's peanutbutter cups to work today to get them out of the house.
prohibition almost killed the cocktail, probably because, you know, they were illegal. but pre-prohibition, the us had a pretty fabulous cocktail culture.
so apparently during the 30s a bunch of co-ops started in california, in which people traded work for services and food and managed to actually be productive during the depression. then the wpa came along and offered cash paychecks, and the co-ops died off.
nasa names twenty-one new gamma ray constellations, including ones named after the hulk, godzilla, and the tardis. space nerds are the best nerds.
and speaking of the tardis, check out this little free library in detroit.
this clydesdale is dressed as an at-at. because what horse doesn't want to cosplay?
photos of libraries, from baroque and classical stacks to super modern buildings to mobile libraries on the backs of trucks and donkeys.