Ooooh! I want a stuffed bat or two. We already have stuffed gargoyles. A bat seems about right.

Yep, IKEA has bats. To the point I broke my rule about buying my own stuffed animals. Cause BATS!!! I may get more for distribution. EDIT: PLAN TO VISIT IKEA SOON. I really, really like bats. I wish they made good pets. With cats.

Kat, no prob. I just was being goofy to wish you a happy monthiversary, and didn't feel voicemail was necessary (also? it's freaky that you know I called sans a message. I mean, I know that's how phones work and all these days, but I'm still a throwback to the days of "no answer, no message, no evidence.") Also? I'm quite used to talking to friends to the drone of a pump in the background. R use to use her pumping downtime to call. It was kinda funny. If loud.

I oughta go to bed, in the nice cool non-a/ced apt, now.

Tickybox also has a stuffed cthulhu.

R use to use her pumping downtime to call.

My friend Julie sent me "hands-free pumping" paraphenalia. It's freaky, but she mentioned good for commuting. Which scares me a little. Plus, my commute? not that far.

Things I'm looking for today? Freezer space.

Fu-bats! I've seen some gorgeous designs of them.

I have a design for origami fu-bats. I should put some up. But Biyi has decided that Penguins are better luck than bats. Weird decor of the day: Penguin pooper! [link]

Kat, I think that the hands-free breast pumping while commuting should be a new insurance ad with Dennis Heysbert. Like the guy changing his pants while driving.

Uh-oh, sumi, I change clothes when I drive. Or I used to, back when I went to yoga immediately after school.

Thankfully, my choice of home being a third floor apartment with 70 miles of semi-clogged highway between it and my parents' house means visitation is on my terms unless medical necessity intrudes.

I had to forego a haircut tonight because the lone stylist had someone under the dryer, apparently a supervision-intensive process that makes it impossible to cut another person's hair at any point in a half hour period. I believe the Mastercuts manager and I will be having a discussion this weekend.

I've been looking at that Chinese math exam problem. [link] I'm having some, well, issues with it. I'm not sure if it's a translation issue or what. Parts i and iii both ask about finding the angle between two lines that, as far as I can tell, don't intersect. Now, for part i, I can sort of finagle the "Show these two lines are perpendicular" into "show that these two lines lie on perpendicular planes," which might be what they're looking for, but it's horribly worded. Part iii, I can only guess that they mean to find the angle between two lines with the slopes that those two segments have, but my answer would really be "the angle between those two lines does not exist."

Part ii, though, looks like an interesting problem. I kind of gave up for now because I can't remember enough analytic geometry.

The British problem, parts i and ii are both from a standard 4th or 5th grade curriculum in the US. Part iii isn't taught until later, but answering it requires nothing other than remembering a definition.

Really, from a "how to write a test" standpoint, I'm not too thrilled with either problem. But I really want to know what they're actually asking in that Chinese one.

Hil, I'm so glad to hear your take on those math problems. Of the Chinese one, Part ii was the only part I could understand.

Weird decor of the day

If that were cheap I might be tempted.

Based on the crowd on the train home I'm guessing... Detroit beat the White Sox?