Thirsty Thursday

 

Today Seabird worked on campus, which isn't usual for a Thursday, so I went up and talked to her in the morning, and then at lunch we walked all around in our building since it was so cold out. The students are back, so it's harder to walk around in our building, but not impossible. I had two meetings this afternoon (yawn!), then after work I drove to the Nitty Gritty in Sun Prairie to join Mamastep and her eclectic group of friends for her birthday party. We were supposed to wear crowns or tiaras, and Mamastep had an impressive headdress with ram's horns and flowers, but I was the only other person who wore something, the rather underwhelming tiara from my wedding. Somehow I remembered it being more crownlike, but it's really just a fancy headband. I also wore the red plaid scarf or shawl type thing I got at a random gas station in Kentucky and never blogged about before, over my green sweater. This seems like it might be a good outfit for the Burns dinner. Travalon joined the party over an hour late due to his work schedule, but he was not even the last person to arrive. I really enjoy seeing Mamastep's friends - they are a great group of people. 

Then Seabird texted me that the university will be closed tomorrow due to the extreme cold. I am not clear on if this means I don't have to work, since I was going to work from home anyway. I was supposed to have a dentist appointment tomorrow at 11:30, but then they changed it to noon, and so I rescheduled because I have a meeting at one. Just as glad not to have to leave the house tomorrow, but I'm not sure if my meeting (which is an online one) is still happening.

I drank a lot of water at the birthday party (a LOT of water), but no alcohol. Still, while driving home, I somehow took a wrong turn at the roundabout on Highway 19 and started heading toward Waunakee. Travalon had been following me the whole way, but I noted that he did not copy my mistake. I should have just taken River Road, and then I wouldn't have looked so stupid. Can't blame it on my excessive water intake.

I got a new sticker from DuoLingo, and the owl appears to be stoned:

I texted it to Travalon, who responded with an owl that appears to be drunk:

I am doing Spanish, and one of the exercises will have English words on the left and Spanish words on the right, and I'm supposed to match them. But then I thought DuoLingo was making things up, because one of the (allegedly) English words was "bezorging," and I have spoken this language for over half a century but don't know that word, so I had to figure it out by the process of elimination. I thought, "Go home, DuoLingo, you're drunk!" Now it's making up English words? But in fact it's a real word... in Dutch. It means delivery. So why does DuoLingo think a Dutch word is an English one? Is it losing its mind? Is it just trying to see if I'm paying attention? Is it going to try to teach me Dutch by slipping words in now and then? What's even happening?? At least in my department I can find someone to help me translate any Dutch words I come across.

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