I wish everyone would send me drawings of the blog monster. I know I have like 3.5 regular readers, so please feel free to email (or mail) me a drawing. You've seen the variety of monsters on this blog, so you know there are no wrong answers. (That's not entirely true - if you use AI to create a blog monster, that's a wrong answer, although I have to admit I'd be curious to see what it came up with.)
OK, so I was so curious that I went to Canva and tried it. It gave me two conventional cartoon monsters, a desk with a piece of paper that said "Blog Monster," and what looked like a pile of coins with letters cut out from a magazine like a ransom note that said "Blog Momste." Wish I'd saved that one. I think this is my favorite.
Today I worked on campus, and I went to a research study where they asked a lot of scary questions like the ones they ask when you give blood, the "Have you ever had a brain covering transplant?" level of questions, but they also asked my ethnicity, and I realized I forgot to mark "Scottish." Is this a big deal? I'm more English and Irish than Scottish, but I've definitely got ancestors from there. This was on the far west side of campus, and I got to use my bus pass for the first time ever to get there, but I walked back along the Lakeshore Path and saw a loon and lots of coots. Then I had a very boring meeting in the afternoon; it was scheduled for two hours and fortunately didn't go that long, but the last twenty minutes we were sitting in silence as the moderator was reading questions people had sent in... not out loud. Painful!!
This evening I was telling Travalon that I'd heard a story that may or may not be true: that Miami was debating naming some of its streets after hip hop songs. Why would they do that? Wouldn't you name them after the artists, not the songs? Wouldn't you rather drive down Snoop Dogg Drive than Gin and Juice Drive? Or Tupak Street instead of Only God Can Judge Me Street? Wouldn't you rather live on Fifty Cent Court than In Da Club Court? Supposedly some alderwoman said she did NOT want to drive down "Back That Azz Up Avenue," and when I told Travalon this, he had never heard the song by Juvenile, so I had to play a bit of it for him. I don't think he enjoyed that too much.
On Tuesday Rich texted me to ask what my symptoms were, and I texted back, "Regular cold symptoms." He said, "Dear Siri, well I am sorry you're feeling bad. I hope you get back to full house soon!" which should be translated, "Via Siri (meaning talk to text), well I am sorry you're feeling bad. I hope you get back to full health soon." But of course I texted back, "Or a royal flush," and then just this evening, two full days later, he texted back two "laughing until crying" emojis. Did he have to look up poker terms before he got the joke? I mean, what was the delay? If he just didn't think it was a funny joke, that I'd understand. It's not nearly as funny as his average "Dear Siri" text.
I had a virtual credit card with $7.44 on it from one of those settlements, you know, they let your data get hacked or whatever, so we needed some new no-kill mousetraps anyway and so I ordered one on Amazon. However, there's no way to split a purchase on there, so I had to go through the arduous process of figuring out how to get to the customer service chat (it's like they don't want you to find it), and then the person was able to help me. That credit card was good until the end of the year, but then I realized I had two gift cards from donating blood that would expire in two weeks. Yesterday I'd had to go to the University Bookstore to get some textbooks for a faculty member, and I'd seen really cute stuffed animals there. I found them on Amazon, but hoo were they expensive! Even with the $25 gift card. Then I remembered my play money gift card from the health incentives program at work, so I used that for the remainder... and it returned my order and said there was a problem with the card. Also, I had missed where you can wait an extra day and get free shipping, since it defaults to two-day shipping for $6.99. I was annoyed, but I put the order through again, using the same card, and this time delaying shipping for a day... and it seems to have gone through. So whatever the snafu was with the original order, it worked out in my favor because now I don't have to pay almost seven dollars for shipping. Also tonight, we joined the music club where the slow Irish sessions are. I'll let you know if that's worth the price.
Famous Hat
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