I am booked for Ecuador! Well, I am waiting for the confirmation that I've given them all the info they need to book me for Ecuador, but close enough.
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
Boot, bra, clothes, and work. This is my morning so far. I'm ready for a nap already but I have three conference calls back to back.
The one advantage of going back to Previous Employer would be getting back on a 9/80 schedule, which means a three day weekend every other week. So useful.
Dad's surgery must be over, I'm waiting for the doctor to come talk to me.
I feel like retirement is going to be wasted when I am old. I wish I could do something like a reverse retirement!
I also have an irrational hatred for the words "Plenary Session" at any conference that is just a tiny tiny thing that no outside people are invited to. It is too formal. Also, this particular "conference" has 4 plenary sessions and lunch. There are no other kind of sessions.
I don't know that that hatred is all that irrational....
The one advantage of going back to Previous Employer would be getting back on a 9/80 schedule, which means a three day weekend every other week. So useful.
Yeah, I think I would like that. It wouldn't fly here, I don't think, because people basically work all the time.
I am pondering aspic(s) today. Why, why, why aspic? I have never had it, and I probably should try, but it seems so unappetizing. But, they were very popular from at least the late 1800's to, like, 1950, right? But WHY?
why aspic?
There are lots of things that are objectively gross and disgusting that people nonetheless consume. Like cauliflower.
Maybe because you could make it ahead and it didn't have to be served warm or really cold, Sophia? It's basically savory Jell-o, right?
I have inflamed lungs. And an antibiotic prescription. Whoo. My blood pressure was also 150/90 or something, which was unnerving. My blood pressure is usually normal to low.
So ready for winter to be over.
I've seen some snow coming down today, but nothing's sticking. And it looks like a couple of flocks of birds decided to hold a defecation contest on the window next to my cube. Sadly, the snow isn't washing that away. People keep coming up behind me, exclaiming "What is that?" Me: bird crap. Them: Why is it there?
I'm not the bird whisperer--how should I know?
There are lots of things that are objectively gross and disgusting that people nonetheless consume. Like cauliflower.
And Tom Scola throws down the cauliflower gauntlet!