It’s early. Watch out for orange juice on the cereal.
That hasn’t happened to me in a while, but I still have scars.
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It’s early. Watch out for orange juice on the cereal.
That hasn’t happened to me in a while, but I still have scars.
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chopper
beats beerios.
R-Jud
How about accidentally dumping cumin on your oatmeal instead of cinnamon? I don’t recommend it.
RedKitten
No danger there — haven’t been able to drink juice of any kind for the last three months.
Just about to leave for work, and feck, I’m tired. I haven’t had a day off since last Sunday, and worked 14-hour days on both Friday and Saturday. I get this afternoon off to go get an ultrasound, and I’m hoping that the doc takes his sweet time about it so that I can nap while he’s doing all the measurements.
wvng
Ah, the memories. Coffee on cereal. Cereal in the coffee cup.
Good times.
geg6
A sweet three day week for me this week. Have today off (and it’s a beautiful day here in the ‘Burgh) and Friday, too. All in prep for another week of freshman orientation next week. I am drinking my delicious Dunkin Donuts coffee, will drink some OJ and eat some yogurt, go visit my brother-in-law to see how my new (used) car is coming along, and then do some shopping at the farmer’s market. The plan is to cook the lovely Delmonico currently marinating in my fridge with a fresh veggie extravaganza for dinner. I want some wine with it and would like to try something different with the steak. Any suggestions? Remember, folks. I prefer reds and I live in a state that prefers to limit what wines we can buy and controls that as ruthlessly as Stalin did agricultural production.
R-Jud
@RedKitten:
…and I am sure the baby will be there nursing a huge coffee while writing down action items on a whiteboard.
Your mat leave starts at the end of the month, no? I hope someone pops for a last-minute pregnancy massage for you.
John Cole
I poured dish soap on my pancakes once.
JK
Tim,
How many votes do you think Sotomayor will receive from the full Senate? My guess is she’ll receive no more than 64 or 65 votes. I think the Republicans want to stick it to Obama and I expect very few of them to vote in favor of her.
Tim F.
@JK:
I bet that she wins everyone but the xenophobe caucus. I STRONGLY doubt that Republicans from states with a hispanic population will vote no. Even so, the partisan in me hopes that they do.
gizmo
I can live with the OJ on my bran flakes. But I wear contact lenses, and can attest to the fact that if you think you are about to put saline in your eye, but in fact have the hydorgen peroxide storage solution bottle in your hand instead, you are in for a very unpleasant surprise. I’ve done this twice already in 2009. Getting old, I guess…..
chopper
@R-Jud:
*cough* it’s way too early in the morning to read a sentence like that.
gizmo
My all-time favorite YouTube video. Loading bricks off a barge in Bangladesh. Whatever you do for a living, it’s got to be easier than this….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26NxU9j2Fpk
RedKitten (formerly Krista - the Canadian one)
@R-Jud: Heh — it’s not too bad, actually. My other boss just called and told me to take a day or two off this week to recuperate, so I’m going to take tomorrow off and plan on spending most of the day in bed, in my jammies.
I actually feel pretty decent, which is surprising. Saturday night at the big closing dinner, everybody kept asking me how I was feeling and how I was doing, and I think that they were all surprised that I felt and looked so peppy. But once the conference starts, I tend to run on adrenaline, and because this one was so smooth, with no roadbumps, the adrenaline was combined with a sense of giddy relief.
Tom
Once when I was a kid, we were out of milk and I really wanted Rice Krispies, so I used water instead. The was the first and last time I tried that.
lotus
dish soap on my pancakes
Yeeow. How many hours (days?) did it take yo’ mouf to recover from that forkful?
geg6
Just want to recommend some fine reading with your coffee. Digby has a great post about “Blogger on the Bus” with which I completely agree. And Glennzilla has his closing argument that shows exactly how mega stupid and vapid Meghan McArdle is. In fact, she is remarkably Palin-like. Taibbi is busting a gut reading it, no doubt.
Punchy
Try Natty Lite on Special K. College football tailgating breakfast of champions.
Cyrus
Heh, I know what you mean. Nothing as colorful as orange juice on cereal, but I slept through my alarm clock this morning. I didn’t wake up an hour later when my cell phone vibrated, which I also have set for an alarm in the morning. I’m lucky(1) to even be at work now; a cell phone buzzing on the other side of the room is something I could easily sleep through. I really wish I could figure out how to fix that, but as far as I know my cell phone refuses to have one mode for announcing a call and another for the morning alarm. If I want something audible at 7 a.m., I’d have to have something audible in my pocket whenever I get a phone call. Stupid phone.
(1) Well, “lucky” is the wrong word, but I have to get this editing done eventually…
Punchy
@Tim F.: All I can keep thinking is this: if they’re this unhinged for a progressive Justice who’s replacing another liberal Justice, just what level of apoplexy will we see when one of the RATS takes a dirt nap?
I fully expect to see at least two Senators from the Deep South self-immolate when Obama nommies a gay Black immigrant woman from San Franciso to replace swinger Kennedy.
Persia
When I was in high school, I used to do a lot of watercolor painting. There’s nothing quite like raising the glass you’ve done your rinsing in up to your lips. When I get throat cancer, blame the Cobalt Violet.
JGabriel
@John Cole:
And did you realize before or after the first bite?
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Cyrus
@Cyrus:
Should be “I didn’t wake up until an hour later when…” of course. I did make it to work on time this morning.
RedKitten
A few options:
1. Buy a better alarm clock — you can get them now with dual alarms, so you can set one for when you’re supposed to wake up, and one for when you HAVE to wake up.
2. Set your phone to max volume right before you go to bed and then set it back to vibrate as soon as you wake up.
3. Stick your cell phone in an empty tin can on your nightstand when you go to bed. You’ll always know where it is in the morning, and if the alarm on it does go off, it’ll be a lot louder rattling around in there.
jibeaux
Krista, I’m so glad you’ll at least soon be off for a year to enjoy that baby. It’s so….civilized. Do you live in one a them industrialized countries or sumthin?
Surabaya Stew
Depending on the cereal, this may not be the worst thing to happen. An accidental splash of OJ on Raisin Bran kinda makes it more interesting. The key is pouring a different type of juice to drink instead, as the orange-tinted cereal makes drinking OJ unpalatable.
PaulW
I predict that the Republicans will seize control of the Senate Mail Room and refuse to ship out the latest issues of Maxim until Obama, Biden, Pelosi and Reid are forced to resign and get replaced by Jeb Bush, Neil Bush, Skippy Bush and Randall “Flagg” Bush.
Or am I being paranoid?
jibeaux
A friend of mine gave up dairy once for Lent and started eating Grape Nuts with OJ, and found she preferred them that way. I guess if you’re eating something entirely indigestible, it doesn’t much matter what liquid you eat them with?
schrodinger's cat
I once put salt in my tea, instead of sugar.
Dork
My mom always said shit like “it all ends up in the same place, anyways, so who gives a flip in what order it gets there” to defend the occasional OJ on cereal bit or donuts dipped in coffee.
OriGuy
@RedKitten: Just for you: Home Birth by the Upright Citizens’ Brigade.
The transmission is about to go out on my seven-year-old CR-V. I’m hoping it will make it to the shop this morning.
JK
Wingnut Neanderthal of the Day
During an open phone segment on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, a knuckle dragging neanderthal said that because Sonia Sotomayor was on the board of La Raza, she was therefore connected to George Soros and David Rockefeller because they apparently have ties to La Raza and Sotomayor’s confirmation will bring us closer to a one world government. Where do these lunatic talking points originate? Have Hannity, Limbaugh, or Beck said that Sotomayor or La Raza is connected to Soros and Rockefeller?
JGabriel
JK:
JK, I’m thinking about 75 votes for Sotomayor.
All of the Dems, plus GOP women, Collins, Snowe, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Lisa Murkowski, and some other Pugs from states that either voted for Obama – like Judd Gregg, Richard Lugar, Richard Burr, Chuck Grassley, and George Voinovich – or have significant Hispanic populations that support Sotomayor’s nomination – McCain, Mel Martinez, John Cornyn, John Ensign – and, finally, there are a couple Pugs who tend to be somewhat centrist (by GOP standards) on court issues – like Hatch and Graham.
So I think Sotomayor will actually do better than expected. She might even break 80 votes, but just barely. Hard core conservatives and GOP Senators with anti-Hispanic constituencies (i.e., most of the Southeast) will vote against her.
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RedKitten
Yup.
Mind you, it’ll be a damn tight squeeze. Basically, I get to go on Employment Insurance for a year, which means that I’ll be at 40% of my pre-maternity income. If one works for a larger company, often the company will top up that payment so that the employee on leave will be at 75% or more of their pre-leave income. My employer, however, cannot afford any top-up, so money’s going to be pretty tight over that year. Mind you, I will be saving money on gas, and the Bank of Mom has stage-whispered to me that I will be receiving regular supplementary income. So I think we’ll be all right. :)
The year-long leave only came into play a few years ago. Prior to that, it was 6 months, which is still pretty good. When Mom had me, it was 6 weeks (which is what I believe you folks get, no?) I can’t imagine having to leave a tiny, helpless 6-week-old baby in someone else’s care. But, women have done it for a long time. My stepdad used to work for an accounting firm, and one of his coworkers, who was gunning for a promotion, had her baby on Friday and was back at work on Monday. I can’t imagine how one could even sit in an office chair all day only 48 hours after the beating one’s ladybits take during childbirth. And to leave a 3-day old baby at home? I’d be a bawling, guilt-wracked mess.
RWB
It has been reported that orange juice over corn flakes was the usual breakfast of the late Fisher Black, the economist who co-created the Black-Scholes option pricing model. Seriously.
JK
@JGabriel: I hope you’re right because the more Republican votes she receives, the more delusional Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, et al will become. I hope these creeps get a serious case of heartburn after the Sotomayor vote.
JGabriel
schrodinger’s cat:
In some cultures, that’s the preferred method. I think Mongolia is one of them.
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jibeaux
Well, what we get here is entirely dependent on where you work. There is no requirement for any leave at all, except for the FMLA, which allows up to 12 weeks unpaid if your employer has, I believe, 50+ employees. So there’s that. There are not a lot of employers that would let you take a year and then come back to your job. I was able to do it while teaching for the academic year, but of course it’s entirely unpaid other than what you have accumulated in sick and vacation leave. The only thing I’m aware of beyond the generosity of your employer as a way to have some income while on maternity leave is to purchase, in advance of getting pregnant, a short-term disability policy. These are required to pay out for six or eight weeks. I have advised a couple of potential moms of this and they had never thought of doing it, so maybe that info will help some other BJ-er.
Yeah, if you’re going back to work with a three day old or even a six week old, you’re not actually “working”. It’s possible someday we will figure that out, but I’m not optimistic.
And there’s no doubt that money will be tight, but one thing I’ve learned, at least for me, is that money always seems to be tight. When I earned less, it was tight and now that I earn more, it’s still tight, since I am spending it on things like “safe cars” and “house in neighborhood without crackheads” and piano lessons and so on. Plus, many of the suggestions about saving money are easier to accomplish if you’re not working outside the home. I just do not have time to bake my own bread, or constantly hunt the thrift stores and craigslist for bargains, and you may find you don’t either, but at least you’d stand a fighting chance. And remember that babies don’t actually need all that much other than you. They do not care what they’re wearing or what they’re putting in their mouth. (But that Bumbo seat, now, I would get one of those.)
Dennis-SGMM
Here in sunny California (It was 100 yesterday) a number of banks are refusing to accept the state’s IOU’s. Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., Wells Fargo & Co. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., along with some smaller banks, won’t accept the things. They say that their refusal is an attempt to pressure our dysfunctional legislature and our idiot governor to pass a budget. That may be so. It is a bit ironic seeing the same banks that required taxpayer funded life support calling on anyone else to get their financial house in order.
California, the world’s eighth largest economy, has so far issued 90,000 of the IOUs worth a total of $355m to businesses and individuals. Meanwhile, state employees are now enjoying a 14% pay cut via the mechanism of three unpaid furlough days per month.
The long term solution of course would be to have a constitutional convention to clean up California’s third longest in the world constitution and remove, among other things, the super majority requirement for passing anything to do with money. Naturally, no one in state government is mentioning that last one. That we don’t grow bananas here will surely prevent our becoming a banana republic.
passerby
Back in grad school I lived off of a stipend of $238 per month. I couldn’t afford milk so I used ice water from the dorm water fountain on my raisin bran. Sugar packets from Burger King were free and plentiful and I used copious amounts on the cereal. I lost 8 pounds that semester. Good times.
Face
This is a great point. I can’t wait to see Club for Growth and Limbaugh excoriate all the Repubs who vote for her, labeling them RINOs and insisting that listeners send rhinos in giant crates in the mail to these Senators. Followed by a boycott of elephants, American flags, and FoxNews.com subscriptions.
No wonder Limbaugh is so fat….he never stops eating his own.
cleek
buncha mongoloids
A Mom Anon
Jeff Sessions is a dick. That is all.
passerby
@Dennis-SGMM:
Too bad Goldman Sachs doesn’t have commercial branches. I hear they are doing very, very well.
Violet
When they were kids, my aunt-by-marriage’s brother used to tell her that OJ on cornflakes was the right way to eat them. To this day, that’s how she prefers her cornflakes.
Cyrus
@RedKitten:
1. My alarm clock now has that, actually. I’ve used the second alarm for afternoon naps, or for morning wakeups not at the normal weekday time, like if I need to get a lot of shit done on a Saturday I might leave the normal alarm unchanged and set the second alarm for 9 a.m. I’ve never even thought of using it like you suggest. I guess the only reason not to is that I might hit “snooze” on it or turn it off as easily the main alarm, but it still sounds like a good idea.
2. Definitely won’t work. I’ll forget to turn the volume up, or more likely, forget to turn it down.
3. Heh. Clever.
What I really need is one of those alarm clocks that launches itself across the room helicopter-like when the alarm sounds, so you have to stay awake long enough to find the thing by sound and walk across the room to turn it off.
This actually isn’t that big a problem for me; this morning was probably the first in more than a month. I just mention it because it was this morning specifically, and there Tim is, talking about doing stupid things before you’ve fully waked up.
Also, good luck with the whole maternity leave thing.
SGEW
Does anyone else think that it’s hilarious (i.e., quite saddening, actually) to see Lanny Davis as the public relations face of the “new” government in Honduras?
Here you have the Secretary of State sitting down across the table from one of her old campaign managers, trying to tell him that his clients are not accepted as legitimate by a single nation in the world, while he’s trying to spin their actions as responsible and unavoidable. What the hell was that conversation like?!?
Brick Oven Bill
We had a community breakfast yesterday. A friend invited me to this. A group of neighbors in a very modest neighborhood, most of whom are not exactly thriving, got together for a meal. There were five heads of households, and the associated ladies and kids. We served a nice spread family-style. I cannot recall neighbors getting together like this before. It was very nice.
I also cannot recall anyone putting whiskey in their morning coffee before, but hey. This might be a good idea. That bottle is winking at me.
Dennis SGMM; This is Gresham’s Law (theory originally established by Copernicus) in action. Good money pushes out bad. The government will try to stop the IOUs from being used for barter, but will not be able to do this. The political class over-estimates their ability to control human behavior.
Janet Strange
@jibeaux:
Looks like it accomplishes the same thing as what I called the baby box when my daughter was at the “I want to sit up and play with my toys and look around and such, but I can’t quite manage it yet.” Which meant that she wanted me to hold her sitting upright in my lap all the time.
It was just an ordinary cardboard box that I lined with a folded quilt. Propped her up in the corner of it with a few toys and she played happily while I cooked or whatever. One of my (and her) favorite items of baby “furniture.” And free, too.
linda
ugh… 2 friggin hours wasted with these opening remarks by these senate gasbags.
SGEW
Re: Waking up
My trick is a rather old alarm clock that sounds like the Air Raid Siren of the Apocalypse, and requires three separate actions to turn off (push slider three places to the left, then two to the right, then an “off” button is held down for one second) – studies have shown that having to complete three or more separate actions when you wake up will break you out of your semi-conscious state and force you into full wakefullness.
I’ve nearly had an SO break up with me because of it (they would wake up screaming when it went off, and one memorable early morning started hammering at it with a shoe, to no effect), but it gets my arse up ten times out of ten, and is totally worth it.
cleek
oh look, Crittenden’s fishing for a link!
JK
@SGEW:
That’s definitely not appropriate. I’ve never been a Lanny Davis fan. I remember Tucker Carlson telling Lanny Davis that he was his favorite democrat to debate on his show The Situation, which thankfully is no longer on the air. Sean Hannity also had numerous interviews with Davis. Of all Clinton’s surrogates from the primary campaign, I think Davis was the among the most strident critics of Obama. I’d rather see Davis running a used car dealership. I think it’s a better fit for his background.
The Grand Panjandrum
Nice. Looks like Crittenden linked to the wrong thread.
So is Lance Armstrong going to be able to win this year’s Tour de France? I think we’ll know when they get to the Alps.
SGEW
That is an unfair characterization of the current Honduran government. ;)
Dennis-SGMM
I lived in a 1957 VW bus for more than a year. My worldly goods, other than the bus, were my machinist tools, some books, some clothes and a box of cassettes. Breakfast was oatmeal and dinner was pork and beans or soup and crackers heated on a Svea camp stove with the occasional meal at a diner. I picked up odd jobs at small machine shops from Central California all the way up to Idaho. Bathing was usually bucket and washcloth or the nearest creek. There were always back roads to park on, state parks, or in front of the shop where I was working.
Kept in touch with friends and family via letters and occasional pay phone (Remember them?) calls. During the course of one of those calls I was told that an ex-employer wanted me to come back for a very good job. Like a fool, I took them up on it and I’ve been grounded in Southern California ever since.
jibeaux
@Janet Strange:
Yeah, I had a small laundry basket lined with blankets. The Bumbo is totally genius, though. You can feed them in it, they really cannot topple over if they have any sort of normal baby strength, it holds their little legs out of the way (although I understand some babies with exceptionally pudgy legs have trouble with the leg openings), unobstructed view, you can even set them down in a baby pool or bathtub in it and let them sit and splash… I just wish I’d invented it.
KDP
Mmmm, orange juice on cereal. Fed that to sister and self for a couple of days back when she was 3, I was 7 and our mother had just died in a car accident. Dad was off the deep end, and it was all we had to eat until my grandmother arrived to look out for us.
The Moar You Know
@Dennis-SGMM: Used to grow bananas as a kid here in San Diego back in the 1970s. Easily done.
chopper
@geg6:
‘fortified’ is pretty good.
chopper
@jibeaux:
it works for a bit but once baby starts doing the lean-back thing it aint no good and its time for a real high chair.
CynDee
6 a.m. Coffee Error #345: Pouring the coffee beans into the grinder without first removing the lid.
passerby
@Dennis-SGMM:
There were times when the dorms weren’t open and I slept and lived out of my car (a 7 y,o, 81′ Honda hatchback). Sometimes I could crash for a few days on someone’s couch (I hated that). But it didn’t kill me and it’s an experience that I’m glad to have under my belt.
But, you know Dennis, of all the crap I had to learn, tests to cram for, papers to write, the most useful thing I ever learned was how to get by without enough money. It serves me well even today that I know I can go to bed “hungry” if push comes to shove. [ As an added bonus, it’s a great weight loss plan. ; ) ]
Emma Anne
I once spooned salt instead of sugar on my cereal. Ugh! Salt is not just the wrong taste, it is about 1000 times as strong as sugar. I really wondered about the people I was visiting who had their salt in a dish instead of a salt shaker.
JenJen
So, apparently this entire SCOTUS hearing is going to involve a bunch of whiny Republican Senators whining about Miguel Estrada? Seriously?
New Rule: All GOP Senators must keep hands above the table (The David Brooks Rule).
Ash
This picture of Sotomayor’s nephews during the opening statement is priceless, and probably how everyone else feels about the whole hearing in general.
Jackie
My Dad once used my Mom’s hairspray instead of deodorant one morning. Figured it out when it hurt to lift his arm to drink his coffee.
He also used Brylcream (sp) instead of toothpaste once.
I come by my “not a morning person” honestly.
Dennis-SGMM
@passerby:
That has stood me in good stead as well. That and finding out the difference between the stuff that you want and the stuff that you actually need. Despite my efforts to live as simply as possible, stuff has accreted around me like marine life on a shipwreck.
Phoebe
I put coffee on my Cheerios and it was delicious.
Not delicious enough to do every time, but I now put leftover Cheerio milk in coffee and recommend it strongly.
YellowJournalism
@chopper: I have to say “ditto” on that. My son learned to lean back in his Bumbo, kick his legs and wriggle out almost all of the way. Until then, the thing was great. Then again, I swear my first child is a reincarnation of Houdini the way he gets out of highchairs, carseats, clothing, and gets around household obstacles.
Bumbo is now making potty seats. I may have to check that out, seeing as the regular seats don’t look very comfortable for potty training tots.
Oh, and the worst mix-up I ever made was putting my psoriasis medicine on my toothbrush. Not recommended.
Perry Como
Most boring. Hearing. Ever.
jibeaux
@YellowJournalism:
Okay, wow, I did not know about the leaning back thing! I thought they were so sturdy. Those are some acrobatic babies y’all have. Maybe they’ll make a SuperBumbo — Now With Added Weight!
passerby
@Dennis-SGMM:
Haha!
I understand completely. Lately I find it much easier to make a clean sweep of the house. This past spring, I ruthlessly gutted 2 closets and a file cabinet. I admit it was kinda tough but it gives me a good perspective on need vs want and makes it easier to resist the urge to buy trinkets (mostly in the form of kitchen gadgets) and clothes. I also reduced my books by 1/3 and CDs by 1/2. Ruthlessly.
Feels good to let that stuff go. Stagnant material goods are just so much clutter.
Dennis-SGMM
@passerby:
I pulled out several bags of books that I’ll never read again and chucked out trashbags full of software, some of which dated back to DOS. I’m hampered in my clean sweep efforts by having a wonderful wife who can form a sentimental attachment to salad forks. Our son is twenty-four and we still have at least dozen storage bins filled with his toys. We still have the son as well but that’s because he’s autistic. Otherwise, it would have been either college or the service for the lad.
passerby
@Phoebe:
Thanks for this idea. Sounds like a perfect summertime breakfast and I intend to put it into action. It’s like hitting 2 birds with one stone. The left over coffee I didn’t drink will now go into the fridge, instead of (usually) down the drain, then into my generic honey nut Os tomorrow.
I am amused at how eager I am to try it. Since it’s too late in the day for me to have coffee, I can’t wait until tomorrow morning. :) Yum.
passerby
@Dennis-SGMM:
Yes, this is also my toughest hurdle in NOT letting go of some of my useless stuff. Oh well, I’ll let go when I’m ready.
And a kiss to the forehead of y’all’s son.
Dennis-SGMM
@passerby:
Thanks. He’s a great person and it sometimes requires more courage of him to walk around the block than it took me to go through a firefight at close range.
Nethead Jay
@The Grand Panjandrum: Regarding Lance Armstrong, I don’t think he’s going to win, but I’m sure he’ll be in the top 5, possibly on the podium. As you say, the Alps will be the real determinant, this time the Pyrenees were just the appetizer.
I think the critical stages will be on Sunday the 19th and from Tuesday the 21th to Thursday the 23th. Three mountain days with a resting day on monday and then a 40 km time trial at the end. The profile for Tuesday’s stage in particular looks extremely tough.
And if it’s still close after that, then there’s Mont Ventoux at the end on Saturday the 25th. I’ve ridden up that mountain several years ago when I was younger and fitter and man, that climb is a killer, especially on hot days.
SGEW
O/T:
This audio clip from the BBC, interviewing the four Uighur detainees who were released to Bermuda, is beautiful.
Accompanying article here.
chopper
@passerby:
+1. man, when i think about exactly how broke i was in college and how close i was for so long to not being able to eat at all i shake my head in amusement.
but i did figure out a few great tricks. like get a job at a restaurant or cafeteria. getting free meals actually encourages you to go to work. i’d work 16 hour shifts and not spend a dime on food.
Punchy
Similary, I once spreaded Veggie-mite onto bread, thinking it was Nutella (it was brown, so how was I to know?). Instead of a sweet, smooth chocolate delite, I got an insanely salty bitter, nasty spread of what must be kangaroo dung.
It was at camp, and I used unknown and previously untapped superhuman strength to keep myself from instantly projectile vomiting. To this day, the mere sight of a bottle of it makes my stomach queasy.
passerby
@chopper:
Yessirree chopper. In my final semester, I worked in a hospital kitchen that allowed us GAs to eat any thing we wished for free. The only rule was that it was verboten to take food home–a rule I gratefully obeyed.
Man, I could pack 2,000 calories into lunch. No, not the healthiest way to survive, but hey, survivin’ is survivin’.
asiangrrlMN
@SGEW: That story about the Uighurs in Bermuda brought tears to my eyes. Thank you so much for sharing it.
@gizmo: As someone who used to wear contacts, all I can say is, ouch. I hope it didn’t do any permanent damage!
When I lived in California, I had a housemate who ate his cereal (don’t remember which kind) with Sprite. Ew.
Comrade Dread
I just have to say that the ads are really getting entertaining in a sort of bizarre way. Today we have a Christian-Filipino marriage site, a mosaics reseller, a blog for/about Central America; Amazon.com; and Animal Hats.
It’s almost like modern art.
Laura W
@Comrade Dread: What the heck is “a mosaics reseller” and should I change my business model to become one? Is it profitable? Fun? Edgy?
Tonal Crow
On first read, I was sure that this headline read “Swearing Makes Palin More Tolerable”. It doesn’t, actually.