I want Graeters ice cream.

And now I do, too.

We should go get some!

So need to get screens. Toss up between sitting in the dark and having all God's creatures flitting to the monitor, or with the lights on, AGC amassing overhead on the living room ceiling. One is incredibly annoying, the other is terribly creepy.

And Nunya is starting to tear apart my paper lamp in an effort to get at all teh bugs. I blame the massive thunder and rainstorm that just passed through. From the bug-eyes the cats were making, I kept expecting to find chipmunks and rabbits and 'coons taking refuge from the deluge in my apartment.

Speaking of critters, we're having a rash of dead squirrels at work. Health Department is giving a song and dance of "well, yes, we've received similar phonecalls from elsewhere in town, and the Fish and Game Department tells us that overpopulated animal species can do a self-correction, which is the most likely cause of all the dead bodies."

Um... rodenticide, mayhaps? Deer and coyote don't "course correct" for over-population. Dude, if you don't know, don't make shit up. I think the Health Department is related to my boss.

(I'm not sad over dead squirrels, and may start rejoicing if I see bunny and chipmunk and groundhog bodies besides the grey guys, but I do worry over the foxes and their kits eating the bodies, especially if they're poisoned. Saw a fox wandering through the roses on Tuesday after having taken a lounge in the small pool amongst the ferns and evergreens --the fox, not me).

mmm... ice cream

Grammar Question:

I'm creating a t-shirt for the cheerleaders. It says EVHS Pep Squad with a megaphone beneath. Beneath the megaphone, I want it to say "Go Falcons!" Technically, it should be Go, Falcons! But the comma looks weird on the t-shirt.

Grammar over appearance?

As an imperative, does it really require the comma?

Regardless, I'd lose the comma.

I dunno, brenda. It's still direct address.

The quandry is that I'm also an English Teacher and I'd like to get it right, as good grammar costs nothing. BUT I'd also like it to look nice.

It's also probable that no one will care but me!

I'd lose the comma, despite the grammar quibble.

When I remember the Challenger disaster in the future it will be a memory with another human dimension included.

Thank you, Laura, that's a nice thing.

Kat, huh. It's funny how sometimes you get that whole "who are your people" thing going on. Even having never lived there, I still react with a home vs. mainland sort of mentality. Anyway, hee that you thought of me.

I had a cute local boy moment at the music festival. I turned up randomly at a show because I'd heard good buzz. But sadly it was the last day of the fest and it had just let loose a downpour, so a ton of people had just bailed. So the show was pretty much just me and a few people the band knew. Like, literally, maybe half a dozen people (including, randomly, some girl I'd met in Arizona this spring).

Anyway, they're called twentyfour64 (noisy myspace link) were from Hawaii and they put on a great show anyway, and I loved them. Bought their album even though it wasn't really my style, because I felt bad for them having come all this way. Then later they were hanging out in the audience at another show I went to. I shaka'd at them, so they came over to talk to me for a while. It was cute how excited they were to be talking to someone who knew their vibe.

And there is a whole 'nother language that goes on underneath the language with local people. I dunno. It's just something unique.

eta: I saw a whole bit of a show about Graeters and I was super impressed with the manual labor involved. Also, I really really wanted some.