'Conversations with Dead People'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
We get non-homogenized milk and every time I crack it open for the first time, I want to scrape the cream off the top and eat it with a spoon. It's so hard to shake it back into the milk bottle.
It's times like these, I can understand why some look at the Good Old Days with fondness.
Here is your Friday afternoon bat video. [link]
Have I been remiss in linking to Friday afternoon bat videos in the past? The bats in this one should make up for it. And for all the bat videos I'll fail to link to in the future. I think it may contain all the bats in the world. (Except for Michael Keaton.)
which is why they don't recommend it for the most vulnerable people, i.e. children under 2, pregnant women, and the severely immunocompromised.
Unless you're in this group and severely allergic to eggs, in which case the shot isn't an option.
Weekend plans: Buffy Halloween ep watching, which I may have already mentioned here; possibly the pumpkin carving mentioned by Calli; dinner tonight is Buffalo Wings.
Unless you're in this group and severely allergic to eggs, in which case the shot isn't an option.
I feel like I heard on NPR that there's an egg-free injectable version, but I can't swear that that's true. (Plus, if it does exist, I imagine the supplies are very, VERY low.)
Oh! And the annual bellydance Halloween party, aka Haflaween. 'Tis my favorite event all year. I'm not dancing, but I'm happy to just watch and eat the goodies. And probably see how many skull/bone-related articles of clothing I can wear at once.
This weekend I am coordinating a LibraryThing flash mob to catalog the Classics department's collection of 2200+ books. With 4 librarians, 6 faculty members, an unknown number of grad students, and 8 undergrads. It will also be the 7th day in a row I'll have been at work.
It could be cool, or a disaster. I'll know by noon tomorrow.
Weekend:
I may have overscheduled my almost 8 months pregnant self...
Gah, we have no Halloween candy! We've been remiss in the stocking up. Fortunately it should start being on sale soon, even if the kids end up with mini-boxes of Dots or off-brand smarties and such.
Flash mob cataloging! You ARE library 2.0!