tomorrow i will go to cvs and buy chocolate on sale
happy cheap chocolate eve, o my flist. :D i celebrated with a bingo lunch for the admins at work (we ate pizza and talked smack, as you do, and one of the admins brought her very fluffy and very cute pomeranian, who i swear is like 90% hair and just looked so happy to be there) (do poms have resting happy face or was he a particularly delighted and energetic fluffball?) and a valentine's day social for the whole department (which included an opera singer and his opera-trained-but-now-getting-a-degree-in-chemistry wife, who sang love arias while we chowed down on charcuterie, assorted appetizers, chocolate covered strawberries, and cupcakes). i made cookies for the bingo lunch - and the department actually paid for our pizza, shocker - there's one left and i left it in my office for tomorrow. they're yummy.
admin p, who retired like two years ago, came by i think for the bingo except she thought it was at one and not noon, so she showed up as we were all leaving. and then since she worked on my floor she came up with me and admin l who sits near me, and we caught up (and, uh, talked smack) and she did the "is so and so still here, is the other so and so still here", and told us that her husband's sister did 23 and me and discovered... they have a half brother. :O apparently their mom had a baby as an unmarried eighteen-year-old. the woman in the next room in the hospital had just lost her baby (stillbirth, i'm guessing) and the doctor, knowing unmarried eighteen-year-old mom's baby was going to be put up for adoption anyway, asked married mom if she wanted the kid. she did. (i guess you could do that in the 40s in boston.) fast forward like seventy-five years and suddenly the kid, now a grown-ass adult, finds out he has half siblings! he had a good life, got married, had kids, did well in his chosen profession, and has now met a half brother (admin p's hubs) and a half sister (the 23 and me sister). none of their other sibs - there are seven of them - are interested in meeting this guy, tho. admin p is, shall we say, DISPLEASED at their behavior. like, she didn't go to a family christmas party because SHE WOULD HAVE HAD WORDS AND THEY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN NICE ONES.
i did not get a lot done after lunch, let's just say that.
sunday my curling team lost, sigh, altho we put up a good fight. i made all my good shots in the beginning of the game. and saturday i went to get my comics and stumbled on a chili contest put on by the small business association or something. there was jamaican jerk chili with mango salsa (my favorite), mexican chili, and vegan five-bean. which was a lot less vegan after they added sour cream and cheese (and red onions and cilantro and i can't remember what else). the jamaican jerk chili came with plantain chips to use as spoons. the weather was nice, the chili was good, there were lots of dogs, it was good day.
i finished s4 of yellowstone and am taking a break from the wild west to watch more of 1899 which is VERY VERY WEIRD and occasionally creepy and i really like it. i have no idea what's going on but that's ok. (and it is very clear i have no idea what's going on when i try to explain it to my roommate because she wants to know what happened after it got too weird for her and she went to bed.) it has a wildly international cast which means fully half the dialogue has to be subtitled and occasionally characters try to make themselves understood to other characters who don't speak their language. sometimes they succeed! and then things are just weird as hell around them.
last night i caught scott pilgrim vs the world on tv, and while overall i enjoyed it, i spent most of the movie thinking "mary elizabeth winstead is so cute but is scott really such a prize?" i wasn't quite sure what she saw in him other than some very fun video game-y fight scenes in which he vanquished her evil exes. they were ridiculous fights and i liked them a lot. i also appreciated that every time scott said "evil ex-boyfriends" ramona corrected him - "evil exes". and i always enjoy chris evans as an asshole. even kieran culkin was kind of adorable. michael cera barely looked old enough to drive, tho, much less live on his own and have girlfriends who want to have sex with him.
oh, a thing i forgot - one of my pi's is in charge of a kind of social group centered around an area of research, and because i'm his admin i end up doing all the reimbursements for their social snacks. (they have teatime twice a week. it sounds very civilized.) for valentine's day they got a student acapella group to come by - it's a thing the u does for valentine's day - so i went to teatime to hear them, and they sang... never gonna give you up. we were rickrolled by acapella singers. it was fun.
i found a cocktail dress for friend r's wedding at eshakti (altho i don't think it has pockets). now i just need to order it. and then i have to buy shoes.
the san antonio zoo has a valentine's day fundraiser in which you can name a cockroach after your ex and a zookeeper will feed it to one of the animals. if you want, the zoo will even send the ex a digital valentine's day card letting them know you did this.
admin p, who retired like two years ago, came by i think for the bingo except she thought it was at one and not noon, so she showed up as we were all leaving. and then since she worked on my floor she came up with me and admin l who sits near me, and we caught up (and, uh, talked smack) and she did the "is so and so still here, is the other so and so still here", and told us that her husband's sister did 23 and me and discovered... they have a half brother. :O apparently their mom had a baby as an unmarried eighteen-year-old. the woman in the next room in the hospital had just lost her baby (stillbirth, i'm guessing) and the doctor, knowing unmarried eighteen-year-old mom's baby was going to be put up for adoption anyway, asked married mom if she wanted the kid. she did. (i guess you could do that in the 40s in boston.) fast forward like seventy-five years and suddenly the kid, now a grown-ass adult, finds out he has half siblings! he had a good life, got married, had kids, did well in his chosen profession, and has now met a half brother (admin p's hubs) and a half sister (the 23 and me sister). none of their other sibs - there are seven of them - are interested in meeting this guy, tho. admin p is, shall we say, DISPLEASED at their behavior. like, she didn't go to a family christmas party because SHE WOULD HAVE HAD WORDS AND THEY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN NICE ONES.
i did not get a lot done after lunch, let's just say that.
sunday my curling team lost, sigh, altho we put up a good fight. i made all my good shots in the beginning of the game. and saturday i went to get my comics and stumbled on a chili contest put on by the small business association or something. there was jamaican jerk chili with mango salsa (my favorite), mexican chili, and vegan five-bean. which was a lot less vegan after they added sour cream and cheese (and red onions and cilantro and i can't remember what else). the jamaican jerk chili came with plantain chips to use as spoons. the weather was nice, the chili was good, there were lots of dogs, it was good day.
i finished s4 of yellowstone and am taking a break from the wild west to watch more of 1899 which is VERY VERY WEIRD and occasionally creepy and i really like it. i have no idea what's going on but that's ok. (and it is very clear i have no idea what's going on when i try to explain it to my roommate because she wants to know what happened after it got too weird for her and she went to bed.) it has a wildly international cast which means fully half the dialogue has to be subtitled and occasionally characters try to make themselves understood to other characters who don't speak their language. sometimes they succeed! and then things are just weird as hell around them.
last night i caught scott pilgrim vs the world on tv, and while overall i enjoyed it, i spent most of the movie thinking "mary elizabeth winstead is so cute but is scott really such a prize?" i wasn't quite sure what she saw in him other than some very fun video game-y fight scenes in which he vanquished her evil exes. they were ridiculous fights and i liked them a lot. i also appreciated that every time scott said "evil ex-boyfriends" ramona corrected him - "evil exes". and i always enjoy chris evans as an asshole. even kieran culkin was kind of adorable. michael cera barely looked old enough to drive, tho, much less live on his own and have girlfriends who want to have sex with him.
oh, a thing i forgot - one of my pi's is in charge of a kind of social group centered around an area of research, and because i'm his admin i end up doing all the reimbursements for their social snacks. (they have teatime twice a week. it sounds very civilized.) for valentine's day they got a student acapella group to come by - it's a thing the u does for valentine's day - so i went to teatime to hear them, and they sang... never gonna give you up. we were rickrolled by acapella singers. it was fun.
i found a cocktail dress for friend r's wedding at eshakti (altho i don't think it has pockets). now i just need to order it. and then i have to buy shoes.
the san antonio zoo has a valentine's day fundraiser in which you can name a cockroach after your ex and a zookeeper will feed it to one of the animals. if you want, the zoo will even send the ex a digital valentine's day card letting them know you did this.