there are no brownies or cookies in my house.

I am vaguely itchy

glad I am that I told matt to head to a concert without me. However, If I had gone, I might have found a brownie.

Conference is over. It was fantabulous, except teeny, tiny parts which we won't mention. However, I have a headache, a crick in my neck, a start of a blister on my toe, and I'm so tired I could spit, although I don't really know what spitting has to do with anything.

I'm also soooooo very inspired and can't wait to get back to work to hopefully implement at least some of the ideas I've gotten. This inspiration is continuing through the exhaustion, which is kind of amazing to me.

By the way, the tiredness is not that the conference is so tiring, just that I haven't really slept for over a week now. Blerg.

New Baby Fun

JZ: I think she flurmed. I'll go change her. [overheard from down the hall] How can you be so cute? Let's just get you cleaned up. Hey! Don't do that! Why would you do a thing like that?! No! Bad baby!
Me: What happened.
JZ: She kicked her foot in the poop. Then she peed on my hand!

::ten minutes later::

Matilda: {FLURRRM}
JZ: You can change her this time.
Me: This is an opportunity for you to show...
JZ: I did fifteen freakin' diapers today, okay?
Me: I got her. [takes baby to changing table] Alright. Mommy doesn't know how to handle you. What we need here is a speed change. Ya gotta prep before hand, then ninja speed changing powers! I'll just unzip you....look at that. You did indeed flurm. Hey! Don't...Dammit.
JZ: What happened?
Me: She peed on my hand.

Heeeeeee! Go Team Matilda! Mark your humans.

Me: She peed on my hand.

It's the old bait 'n' switch! They come for the flurm, but stay for the pee!

Fear the combo flurm/pee! (We shall call it FLEE!!)

...whence came this word flurm?

t puzzled

I'm guessing it's onomatoepaia (sp?). Either that, or they're using "flurm" because "santorum" was already taken.

We just got a Fear Factor briefing on how we're all going to die in the bird flu pandemic. Then we got directed to stockpile 3 months' worth of food and water. People started rolling their eyes. I don't think the doctors expected that response, but come ON, people! Do the math! 1 gallon of water per person per day works out to 1008 pounds of water. It would cost about € 700.00. And it would take up a LOT of space, more than we have in our house.

And did we learn nothing from Katrina? If there's a pandemic and everything shuts down, people will start looting.

Anyway, I did a bunch of calculations of this type and sent them to all my cow-orkers in an email with the subject line "If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me." One of them recgonized it as a BtVS quote! And said he'd be embarrassed to miss a BtVS ref. So hey! That's cool.

Matilda! Girl! You crack me up already.

Oh, Raq. How ridiculous.

I'm about to jump in the shower and head off to school, but decide to check my class websites to see if there were any notes on today's classes that I should know before going to class.

My Boston and NY Literature prof has rescheduled our Midterm! W00T! This means I really can just relax and party this weekend without having to worry about a big exam on Tuesday. Life is good.

Nuts. My sis was supposed to come down tomorrow night after her concert. She's still coming, but now she's bringing a bunch of people with her. Which is fine, I like these people, and I'm sure we'll have a great time.

But it requires a fundamentally different level of cleaning to ready the place for non-family visitors, which means I've got a lot to do tonight.

Did they remind you to seal up all the doors and windows with plastic sheeting and duct tape? Because that might ease up on the amount of food and water you need to stock.