Oh! You know what this weekend is? My Boston-iversary!

Wait. The new kid on Glee is actually named Chord Overstreet??????

I am so bummed I am missing the Halloween parade at the kids' school, but I have to teach. As for the weekend, many social plans, which somehow need to magically balance out with grading. Not sure how I'm going to do it all.

Check out this cool photo of the sun:

The Making of a Mind-Blowing DIY Sun Photo

I got a response from Lush after sending them email about the Flosty Gritter:

Thank you for taking the time to write us, we truly appreciate it when our customers take the time to write in with their feedback. I am sorry to hear that you find the name Flosty Gritter offensively racist. The Flosty Gritter has been a wonderful addition to our range of products for quite some time. I can assure you that in no way was it our attention to poke fun of those of a Japanese heritage or those with pronunciation difficulties and apologize if it comes off as so. Here at Lush we are very proud to employ a vast range of multi-cultural employees and believe in toleration for those of any race. Each of our products, including the Flosty Gritter are developed by our talented product creators in the UK. I would be happy to forward on your comments to the Lush UK customer care team. Have a lovely day,

ETA: what burns my toast is that the subject of the email they send to me is "product rant." Like I was just mindlessly spouting off to them about it. Way to take it seriously, Lush

I think my boss is having a day like mine. As she was walking back to her desk, I was standing up to go get some coffee, and she asked me if I was wearing this outfit all day. Apparently in her head, I was wearing jeans, a long sleeved t-shirt and sandals. (Actual outfit? black dress slacks, fluffy white shirt with black & white tweed jacket and black & white tweed high heeled mary janes)

I got a response as well, rather similar:

Thank you for writing us, we appreciate your feedback. I am sorry to hear that you find the name Flosty Gritter completely offensive. The Flosty Gritter has been with us for some time, and has been enjoyed by a great deal of users. As a company, Lush is incredibly proud to employ people of many different heritages, including the Japanese. It was not our intention to be racist and sincerely apologize if you feel it comes off as such.

The Flosty Gritter and each of our terrific products are developed by an amazing team of product creators in the UK, I would be happy to forward your email onto our UK customer care team.

I am actually not surprised that it was developed by the UK folks. The casual racism that I saw when I lived there was pretty rampant.

I made some muffins, and the plan was to put orange glaze on them for Halloween. I didn't have enough yellow, so they're peach-colored. Halloween fail.

I couldn't do an emergency run for yellow because I've been waiting for a dishwasher repairman since 8. They called at 11 to say that it would be at least 1, because his first job went pear-shaped on him.

Now I can't get to the post office in time to get the stupid registered mail that I have no idea what it is. I didn't even know about it for several days, because the postal person smushed up the notice and pushed it under the door.

I am actually not surprised that it was developed by the UK folks. The casual racism that I saw when I lived there was pretty rampant.

Interesting. My close friend's horrible husband (I've mentioned him before) was reared in England. He's the one who giggled and ordered "flied lice" at a Thai restaurant (we were a group of 7 people). He actually repeated it three times because the server coudn't understand WHUCK he was ordering. His wife looked slightly embarrassed and rolled her eyes, and the rest of the table was silent.

I told him I was completely offended and that I had no interest in dining with him and I got up and walked out.

believe in toleration for those of any race.

Oh, isn't that nice of them.