The Soap Box
A place for me to dump my brain and you to pick thru it

I Need Some Advice
10:03pm

So I just went into the garage where our washer/dryer is, opened up the lid to the washer and found a live mouse staring up to me. YIKES! So I left the mouse there and hoped it would get out itself. I go back in 10 minutes later and it's still staring up at me, then it ran under the agitator. DAMMIT! All I need now is to do some laundry, drown the mouse and find it's dead carcass among my "clean" clothes.

Here's were you come in. How do I tell if the mouse is out of there, and not hiding under the agitator? Please please please, I beg of you. What do I do?

Don't Forget Your Free Taco!
12:31pm

Today, from 2-5pm, you can get a free taco at Taco Bell, thanks to a Red Sox rookie stealing a base during the World Series. If you don't want it, you could always give it to a poor homeless member of society.

Free Stuff for All!
6:29pm

Thanks to Jacoby Ellsbury, the first Native American to play in the major league, everyone in the US gets a free taco on Tuesday, October 30th from 2-5pm. Taco Bell claimed that if someone stole a base in the World Series, they'd give free tacos to all. I think actually the promotion is "Steal a base, steal a taco." So, if you can stomach Taco Bell, go get your free taco courtesy of to the Red Sox rookie.

Also, if you are part of Red Sox nation and bought furniture from Jordan's Furniture in Massachusetts back in March or April, you are about to receive a refund for that furniture. Apparently the owner of Jordan's said that if the Sox won the World Series, he'd give rebates to his customers. 30,000 people took him up on that offer. 30,000! I seriously hope you guys all get your free stuff!

They Really Said It
8:26pm

Last night, durning the World Series at Fenway Park, one of the sportscasters actually said:

"You can find the Monster with the right stroke."

Uhhh, dude? Do you have any idea how that sounds? Reminds me of David Cross when he was on Arrested Development. He always said things in such a way that made a perfectly innocuous thing sound soooo dirty.

Cobert's Effect on New Mexico
11:07pm

Colbert is leading our governor, Bill Richardson, in the South Carolina primary. He's running third or fourth I believe. And he's only been a faux candidate for a week! Poor Bill's been busting his ass raising money and trolling the New Hampshire pancake houses for close to a year. However, on the Republican side, (Colbert is running in both the D and R primaries) he's running dead last. So, what does that say? Dems are stupid enough to vote for a faux candidate or the GOP just doesn't find him funny or they don't know who he is? Anyway, I don't think Richardson is finding Colbert humorous either at this point.

Who Turned Off the Heat?
10:05pm

It was 83 degrees yesterday -- a record high -- which made today's weather all the more shocking. It might have hit 50 but not much more. At 7:30pm, it was down to 46 degrees and it's supposed to freeze tonight. Another true sign that winter is undoubtedly on the way is that the cats are eating like a condemned man consuming his last meal. They are just pigs! All of them! Hopefully, Calliope, aka Crazy Old Lady Cat, aka Ribsy McGee will put a little weight on.

Random Notes
10:47am

Who cares that Dumbledore is gay? Really! In case some of you have forgotten, he is not a real person! If this turns into another reason for certain religious groups to protest the Harry Potter books, may I remind you that there are real things happening in the world that could use some protesting like children dying of hunger, genocide, corporations killing their customers...well you get the idea.

To get all my coursework done in time for me to go on internship when I plan to go has gotten complicated. I suppose it's possible but the department doesn't seem to want to make it easy and I'm frustrated. Also, it's out of my control and man, do I hate that feeling. I was hoping to spend a year before leaving on internship just working on my dissertation but there is no way that is not going to happen. It's now just a wait and see...

My birthday is in 5 weeks and I already know it's gonna be kick ass! Blue Man Group will be playing in Albuquerque ON MY BIRTHDAY just for me and 9,999 of my closest friends. How cool is that? Also on my birthday the new episodes of Futurama are release for the first time in years! Yes, I have preordered it and I can't wait. Futurama is easily my favorite show. What a great birthday present!

I think I'm finally over the mono that I've had since May. I'm still tired but I'm not running fevers and feeling like holy hell. The fatigue I can deal with and it's a heck of a lot better than feeling like a pile of poo day after day. So, overall, things are looking up.

Dirty Lou
1:47pm

So the big buzz around here is that a professor in the psychology department just published a paper regarding how much strippers make doing lap dances during different times in their...umm...female cycle. (Apparently they make more when ovulating, in case you care.) The local news has done a story on it and this week on Saturday Night Live they even referred to it with the punch line, "Who gave Dirty Lou a research grant?" Well, I can't answer that question but apparently Dirty Lou teaches at UNM in the psych department, just in case you wanna dump more research money in his lap (pun intended) for more stripper research.

Today's Pet Peeve
2:11pm

I really really hate when people send out flyers as powerpoint files. I mean isn't that like using a sledgehammer to get ketchup out of a bottle? You really can't convert it to a simpler document, or at worst, a graphic file? And you also couldn't change the name of the file to something more appropriate than "Improving Hope general flyer to outside people.ppt"? I seriously got a "flyer" with that title just now. Ugh. When I'm feeling more generous, I do feel bad for people who have to use computers on a daily basis and are never given any training. I'm not feeling generous today so I'm just gonna shut up.

Only In America
7:24pm

The Peace Ig Nobel award this year went to The Air Force Wright Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, USA, for instigating research & development on a chemical weapon -- the so-called "gay bomb" -- that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other. This is a real R&D program from 1994. Below came from the actual documentation:

I love that they call it distasteful. Homosexuality is so distasteful to the army that it should be inflicted upon an enemy or what?

Whatever.

Your tax dollars at work!

This Week's Crazy New Mexico Story
11:28am

Roman Catholic Bishop Donald Pelotte called the cops as he hid in his closet from "...gentle little people, about 3 to 4 feet tall, and wearing Halloween masks" who he reported were in his home and wouldn't leave. A little too much sacramental wine perhaps? You can read the story here.

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