Archive for September, 2005

Why do I always sit next to the freaks?

Friday, September 30th, 2005

A generic adult female goes on a field trip and gives a very very short report on the outing.

I went to the apple orchard with my son’s first grade class.  We picked apples, saw some machinery, and tried to avoid getting stung by hordes of crazed bees (maybe not hordes, but one can sure seem like hordes when you are trying to have a nice bee-free morning with a bunch of scaredy-cat 6- and 7-year-olds) while eating apple-cinnamon doughnuts and drinking cider. 

On the long bus ride back to school, I had the bad luck of sitting next to the only wacko parent in the whole bunch.  She said this to me: "So I bought the package of Oreos for $2 and I took it home and set it on the counter and realized that they were NOT worth the sweat equity I put into the money I used to buy them.  And besides, Oreos are so far removed from real food.  There is nothing in them that is actual nutrition." 

I wanted to tell her to Double-Stuff herself.  O, Beloved black-and-white sandwich cookie, she hath befouled thy chocolatey name!  Come to me and I will ease your pain!

Chatroom Revisted

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

Because of a Series of Unfortunate Postings, I had to upgrade the chatroom software. It’s now up and ready for you to use. This time you have to register to use it, so I hope that doesn’t stop anyone from joining in on all the fun (I’m looking at you, Sara arts.).

All that to say, we’re back on for the weekly chat tonight (6 pm Pacific/Oregon time) in our brand-new logofied chatroom. Yahoo!