I was so spoiled with the Cambridge campus, which while it is in a strip shopping center, is right next to a Whole Foods and fast food and Starbucks, and this being NE, a Dunkin' Donuts. The Woburn campus, however, where I spend most of my time these days, is in a lonely and deserted at night/weekends industrial park, so the vending machines have a more captive audience.

I still can't wrap my head around eating a vending machine cheeseburger, though. ::shudders::

Ah, Cherry Ames. I still have about twenty of those books. I love them so.

The thing about those triagular package vending machine sandwiches is that they always seem to be filled with things that should nat just be sitting around for a long time. Like egg salad or tuna.

Some people seem to buy them at lunchtime, when the cafeteria is open and right there!

Dillo had a huge back of the head bonk last fall that raised a goose-egg that lasted for weeks. (Our next door neighbor the ER doc looked at it and said it was fine). He's had several front of the head bonks, only one of which really made a goose.

Her brother drove a jalopy! (Hee -- jalopy. I still only think of that one car, because it was where I learned the word.) No, of course they weren't actually poor, just book-universe poor. I can't believe I don't know who the Lynches are. I should re-read those books, or maybe I shouldn't.

I bought the first sixteen from a used book store a couple of years ago and reread them all. I was kind of blown away to realize that, like ita said, the "poor" Belden's were really just middle class. And what a world of privledge...staff and maids and chaffeurs. The Bob-whites of the Glen were totally the Gossip Girls of their day. Except suburban and goody-goody. ETA: Imagine if Blair, Serena, Chuck, Doofus, and Little Jenny fought crime? And wore matching jackets!

So I assume it's Monday and I'm at work, instead of me dreaming this. Bah.

ION, the final Space Shuttle servicing mission to Hubble is scheduled to launch today at 1:01 EDT (10:01 board time).

I still can't wrap my head around eating a vending machine cheeseburger, though. ::shudders::

Ahahaha- that reminds me of the Newsradio episode when Bill McNeil was addicted to the nasty sandwiches in the vending machine and freaked out about them take them away.

"Just like mom used to make."

Funny stuff from Craigslist: Alt Text: The Craigslist Free-Couch Blues

Article from 1926, about a KKK baseball team playing a Jewish baseball team. [link]

Speaking of Craiglist-- why are all entertainment center's hideously ugly? New, used, inexpensive or expensive, they are all terrible looking to me. I know this is partially because I can't stand "oak" grained things, or really anything that is "fake wood" AND I don't like black lacquer AND I don't like real wood that is "country- style", but still...