that exam went totally well.

yes, yes, yes! one thing down. 1,115 to go. This is actually a precise number. All due Monday.

I am currently downloading The Watcher in the Woods in order to have screenshots to show Angela, who cuts my hair next week. But I'm kind of chickening out. Because it's a really stupid haircut. As I describe what I want (Karen from W in the W meets Sarah Connor from TV) ends up souning like Worst of the 70's meets Mullets Galore.

But for now, I'm taking a break, and a bath, listening to tunes, and updating my blog. The exam got out early, and I have a whole 3 hours I wasn't really expecting.

UPDATED new rug

I got a new rug! It is so pretty, and the cats love it. Xander is sleeping on it right now. I got this rug because after I cleaned my apartment and got rid of a lot of stuff, I realized it echoed. So I found this Iranian rug. And I took pictures. Here are several pictures, of the rug and my cats (of course):


NEW: I wanted to take pictures with the couch uncovered, to make sure all the reds don't clash. They might a little bit, but it's ok.
NEW: It looks so homey with the rug!

This is the rug.
This is the tape I'm using to train Ladybird to stay off the counters.
This is Ladybird, studying statistics for me.

This is Xander and Ladybird hugging.

Fellas, don't drink that coffee! You'd never guess… there was a silverfish in the percolator.

I'm searching for a bike tire patch to fix my balance ball. I searched "bike patch" first, and now I can't stop thinking of it like a pumpkin patch, but with bikes.

I discovered that I can brew my yerba mate in my single-serving coffee brewer. This discovery went hand in hand with discovering a nest of silverfish in my single-serving coffee brewer. I'm not sure I can get over this fact, psychologically, however much I disinfect.

maybe 90%

Woah, I'm turning into a regular, moment by moment account of my life blogger.

I'd have to guess that 75% of my calories today came from Easter candy

messy people

My professor, whom I gave a ride from one part of campus to the other this week, has a super-messy office. Like picture an absent-minded professor's office. Now double the amount of stuff in it. Bookshelves overstuffed with binders and loose papers. Stacks and stacks of leaning papers on every surface of a huge desk. The rest of the floor space is taken up by stacks of cardboard boxes that are all taller than I am.

Prof: Hmm, that paper is in here somewhere....
Me: What's in these boxes?
Prof: [looks at them, startled] I have no idea! (note: these have been there since last semester)
Me: Hmm. Well, you've seen my car, so I can't say anything about mess.
Prof: It wasn't so bad.
Me: I picked up hitchhikers a couple of weeks ago, and I was the one embarrased. They were the ones that ran out of gas!

spitzer

We watched a video in Microeconomics about the Worldcom financial scandal. Eliot Spitzer was NY's attorney general at the time, and was interviewed a lot for the video. At one point, he said "propositioned," and everyone was kind of giggling to themselves, until someone must have made eye contact with someone else, and then everyone had giggles for pretty much the rest of the video.

the awesome thing

The most awesome thing has happened! I got five dollars cash in the mail! And all I have to do is fill out a survey about TV. I might have done that anyway. It's like they knew that a) I've been doing nothing but watching TV since the new year and b) I really like one dollar bills!

I did not mention that during my trip to LA, I kept finding one dollar bills in all my pants that I'd brought. I started hoarding them, and sometimes when I couldn't find them, I would suddenly fret "My ones!" I was trying to pay homage to my brother's obsession with change for a dollar on one family vacation, but I don't think he got it. He only laughed when I offered to pay for something for him because "I have ones coming out of my butt. Apparently." Because I had just found even more mysterious ones in the back pocket of those pants, too.

I'm off to fill out my survey!

...hmmm. Now I've filled it out. It was kind of disappointing, because they first asked age, and I answered. The next screen they asked "How many television sets are in your household?" and I put zero. Then, pretty much no more questions. I wanted to tell them the strengths and weaknesses of the Sarah Connor Chronicles! And that they should bring Firefly back! And that BBC America should be available via antenna! No, they just asked if I was white, and sent me on my way.

beef: it does a body good

Two items for ms. sasha cohen. Beef toothpaste and beef tea.

scarving

It takes a special kind of nerd to create a site this detailed about the scarves of Doctor Who through the seasons. And it takes a special kind of nerd to have found it on Google. I blame Sara, my LA friend who knitted during a really lame hipster show we went to, for making me think seriously about knitting a scarf approximately 20 feet long.

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.


~ Rumi ~


(The Essential Rumi, versions by Coleman Barks)