It has been recently brought to my attention that I have been ignoring this blog. After the shock wore off that anyone actually reads this thing, I realized that tis true, I am a neglectful writer. Though I have, as always, been obsessively photographing the world, I can't really come up with anything worth posting on a Sunday morning. So instead, I give you the highlights of some of the more random moments in life I have experienced in the last couple of weeks:
1) Seven year olds acting like seventeen year olds.
This is an actual conversation I overheard at work from a seven year old on the cell phone with god knows whom at 3:30pm on a Tuesday:
7 year old: No beaatch, that's totally not what I said to her.
Uh, whatever. Call me when you get it right.
No idiot, it's not yahoo, it's gmail. No, gmail. G.M.A.I.L. God you're so stupid. Just text me.
Me: Yikes. Why do I write grants for these wee ones?
2) Mattresses by mail.
I've been sleeping on my couch for the last two weeks without heat since my landlord is a deadbeat and my bed moved out (long story). So, I did what any frugal, bedless girl does - I ordered one online. I admit being awfully curious about how they would deliver this queen sized 10 inch deep foam mattress to my backwoods, snow covered apartment. In fact, that was part of the allure. And lo and behold I received a 6 foot bright blue tootsie roll of a mattress. They vacuum sucked my mattress and all its foamy glory into a 50 lb barely portable tube. God it was neat. After releasing it from its bondage, it slowly and wondrously expanded into an impossible 60"x80". It was like one of those dinosaur sponges we all bought as kids that expands to 10 times its size with water. I'm in love.
3) The travel bug.
I have discovered lately that Burlington, Vermont is an exceedingly small town. Six degrees of separation? Right. One, maybe two at the most. And thus my almost pathological desire to travel. I'm open to suggestions on this one. Ideas?
4) Liquid magnets.
Josh emailed me the most intoxicating thing the other day. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you ferrofluids. I fully intend to do this very soon:
http://chemistry.about.com/od/demonstrationsexperiments/ss/liquidmagnet.htm
All I have to do is figure out how to keep ammonia at a low simmer for an hour without killing myself from fumes.
Ok, that's it. I promise something better and more colorful soon. I will be burning a large pile of papers in my snow covered backyard today, so if the pictures are at all entertaining, I promise to share.
