hand wash dish soap. And, Megan, good point.

Welcome, Shambles! I adore your name.

Awww, Nora, I'm sorry. A mouthful of soap is just nast.

A former roommate would justify her wildly excessive use of water while washing dishes by saying that if you didn't get all the suds off, you'd get really sick.

Huh. When I was doing my JYA in England, the Brits on my hall never, ever rinsed their dishes. They'd run them under hot water, soap them up, and then just put them in the rack to dry, and they all rolled their eyes forever whenever I rinsed.

Not that I'm accusing the entire UK of this -- the sample size (five first-year university students) was a little small, and it's entirely possible, based on the bizarre dining choices they made that they were simply slightly pampered kids whose mothers had never let them in the kitchen and the entire cooking and cleaning up afterwards thing was a deep and inscrutable mystery.

Still, soap on the dishes. All the dishes. All the time.

Great, now I'm psyching myself up to be sick along with you, Nora.

hand wash dish soap. And, Megan, good point.

You're fine. Don't worry about it.

I think some dishwashing machine detergent has lye in it, which is why I asked. Even then, trace amounts I wouldn't sweat.

Welcome, Shambles! I too love your name.

Nora, ick. I'm sorry you don't feel well. Oh, and I still have your hat. Guess we're going to have to have lunch again soon :). How did your class go? And we need and sj check-in too.

My plans for the morning got rescheduled. I'm being lazy. It's nice.

Stephanie, do you often get baby bugs of that type where you are? Are you near a desert?

Tom's a bit lax on rinsing. He gives them a pass through but there's often suds on the outside of the dish when he put it on the rack. Hasn't killed us yet!

Class yesterday was OK, we basically just got our syllabus and did intros, so it was a good warm up for me. I was exhausted by the time I got to class, having tromped all over campus buying books and figuring out where the class was. Did a little recon work on alternate transportation that does NOT involve the B line. Or depend on getting to North Station by 8.

Hi Shambles!

Your name cracked me up. I finally rememberd why - it's something from one of the funniest Onion "Point-Counterpoint" articles ever: [link]

Is that where you got it from?

Billytea, Both crushing and slightly embarrassed at the exact same time.(Part of it's you and part of it is that that seems to be my emotional default at the moment.) "Reading the phone book is cute in an Australian accent." It's redundant if I agree, seeing as I have a Thing, right?

do you often get baby bugs of that type where you are? Are you near a desert?

Yes and yes. I'm at my parents' house in New Mexico and "those bugs" are somewhat common. The odd thing was that my dad had just told m e yesterday that I should start shutting the door of my cabin because they like warm places as the weather starts to cool at night.

Hi, Shambles!