Yubsie's Yammerings

McDonald's managed to fail pretty epically today. I was all excited because I ordered fajitas only chicken and cheese and for once I didn't have to fight them over it. This lasted until I got home and actually opened them.

1. They were cold
2. It was the wrong cheese (they put the sliced cheese instead of shredded for some reason)

But all this pales in comparison to...

3. THEY FORGOT THE CHICKEN

Seriously. WTF, McDonald's?

Well, back to the usual at work. But nothing remotely noteworthy's been happening (except that I am developing a hatred for the 4 mm probe because it behaves less every time I use it...), so have some other random babblings!

Ryan was away this weekend. When we're both home, the cats sleep on me. When I'm away, the cats sleep on my side of the bed. This was actually the first time Ryan's been away while I'm still here. Guess where the cats slept!

Yep, on me.

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Today my MP3 player started acting up randomly and refused to turn off until I reset it. This would have been irritating... except it was playing "All Along the Watchtower", so it was really quite disturbing.

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And today I discovered that they sell UWO branded Ugg boots. This is quite possibly the most frightening and yet oddly appropriate piece of university merchandise. Seeing as the stereotypical "Western Girl" has bleache blonde hair and wears miniskirts and Ugg boots in the dead of winter. Now they can be Western Ugg boots!

Also, are leg warmers back in fashion or something? If so... why?

It's probably not a good sign that Caprica required less suspension of disbelief last night than Glee. But Caprica just expects me to buy killer robots and holobands! I watch science fiction all the time and can practically take those as a given.

Glee though, Glee expected me to believe that sectionals is in two weeks and they haven't picked their songs yet! Performing arts doesn't work that way.

Uh, LTC? I might do a better job of believing your "live" arrival times were actually, y'know, live if you weren't telling me when routes I know are not running this week would be arriving. (Aka, no, the 10B won't be here at 8:42 as the 10A and 10B are only there when the undergrads are :p)

So apparently they are going to do another season of Torchwood. I must admit I am somewhat confused as to how.

(Uh, probably CoE spoilers in the comments :p)

Meme from djcati. Meme of MADNESS.

Go to your icons page in Livejournal and look at the first two icons (the one on the right and the one on the left). Pair up the characters in the two icons. Go to the next two and do the same until you have a list of ships. Then...well, write 'em.

I'm not writing them, but I will comment on them. :p Because this may not have been a good idea given MY icons. :p

( So, umm... )

Apparently GINGHAM is in fashion. As in, "Yay, we're not doing a period piece, I won't have to wear gingham!" Seriously, most of the dresses in the stores look like someone took a bunch of costumes from Oklahoma, cut off the sleeves and lowered the necklines. Why on Earth is UGLY in fashion?

Sometimes, the students blow my mind. I had to proctor the blasted intro chem midterm this morning (EW). It's a 9 AM exam. And yet... some of the girls were in cute little Friday night dresses. They were DRESSED UP. For a 9 AM exam! Honestly, DRESSED for a 9 AM exam is an accomplishment. Definitely nothing about the "studying clothes". :p

We also kinda sorta maybe forgot to tell them to turn off their cellphones when they put their bags at the front of the room. Apparently none of them have any common sense, because the blasted things were ringing the ENTIRE TIME. I was so close to actually ANSWERING one. :p

The new student in our lab got here today. We're still working on pronouncing his name. He admits that it's a tricky name for anglophones. Hopefully I'll get the hang of it soon, because I fell bad about not being able to pronounce his name.

EVIL INVITATIONS OF DOOM ARE MAILED! FINALLY! NEVER AGAIN! NEVER NEVER NEVER!

This paper starts out so logical and sequential and then it hits the point of "Ooh! I should have a paragraph about this!". Downside to longhand drafts. But it's all typed up now, so I can edit it tomorrow morning. Yun's defense is in the afternoon, so I'd like to have it mostly done by then, since the paper is due on Wednesday. Exam on Friday for my other class. Then just research!

Dear Mount A:

I only just graduated in May. It is TOO SOON to ask me for money. What are you doing with the money I gave you for the past four years? :p

Mixed Feelings,

Yubsie

Also, I no longer have the reject desk at work. They snuck me into another room. I went ALL the way down to the keys office only to discover it needed the same key as my old office. :p Oh well, there were cookies. :p

Okay, seriously, who the HELL robs a Girl Guide camp?

Someone apparently broke into the area Guide camp over the long weekend. They ransacked the old farmhouse there to get all the copper wiring and plumbing. From every appliance, every fixture. They also stole about a dozen tents (the good ones, of course. Not the evil canvas ones that they quite frankly would be WELCOME to) and a bunch of pots and pans. And the news coverage seems to delight in noting that they even stole the cookie sheets. (Seriously, who steals a cookie sheet?)

I spent many a weekend when I was in Senior Branches there helping to keep the place in repair. Because that's how the camp gets looked after. Not to mention selling so many cookies to keep the place in shape. I mean, it's a Guide camp. Other than an occasional donation, it's kept afloat by fundraising.

Also, it was seriously weird watching my old Guiders being interviewed and walking through a building that I know so well. They were showing the stove knocked over in the kitchen, and I was having flashbacks to picking apples in the pouring rain to make a pie in that very stove when we went in to get everything straightened out before winter.