Today was a little better weather than yesterday, so I asked Hardingfele if she wanted to walk at lunch, and she said yes. I went to her office, and she has this plastic mushroom light:
You will be stunned to learn that we did, in fact, look, and - spoiler alert - all we saw was an empty closet. During our walk, I told her that lately I stink, but she was unconcerned. "Cancer makes you stink," I said, and she said, "So does menopause, because you sweat so much." I specifically smell like sauerkraut, and according to Dr. Google that can be caused by eating cabbage. "When was the last time I had cabbage?" I wondered, and then I remembered it was last night. (Or maybe it was bok choy - same dif.) And I only really noticed the smell today. Mystery probably solved.
In the afternoon I stopped by a wood-carving event that our department was doing, since it was right during my break time. I thought maybe ten people would show up, but there were at least three times that many, so they didn't have nearly enough knives. The faculty member said he'd been expecting ten people himself, so the event was almost too successful. I decided not to stay, but the faculty member said at least take a treat. The students had eaten all the cookies, but for whatever reason they barely touched the lemon bars, so I had one... and that was way too much sugar. It gave me a bit of a headache, so maybe that's divine retribution for breaking my Lenten penance... again. After this, I may give up sugar entirely.
A couple of days ago I reached a 3333 day streak on DuoLingo, but it didn't give me an option to download the sticker, and I didn't think to take a screenshot until I'd passed that screen, and then I couldn't get back to it. So I took this lame and heavily edited screenshot.
I saw two days ago that there was going to be a DuoLingo around the world cruise, which didn't surprise me since there is a cruise for everything these days, but on Night Prayer Anna Banana II clued me in that it was an April Fool's joke. I went back on DuoLingo, but the cruise notification was gone, even though the day was not over. Bummer! But now I see they are selling DuoLingo cruise merch. I'm tempted to get a Captain Duo Hawaiian shirt...
I forgot to post this photo from when Jilly Moose and I went to the concert at Grace Episcopal Church a few Saturdays ago.
Isn't it cute? It's a Little Free Library that looks just like Grace Episcopal, right in front of the real church. I know there was a Catholic church in town that had one like this too - maybe St. Bernard's on Atwood, but they may have moved it because of the construction. If I see it, I'll take a photo of it.
Here's a very First World problem: I had about $68 left on that gift card from work, and I was going to donate half to one Bach group and half to another. However, they both only allow you to donate via PayPal, which is linked to my regular credit card, so it got charged. I tried donating to a different local Baroque group, and they too only take PayPal. So then I had to move some money over from my play money to cover these charitable donations. I thought I could buy a stuffed animal I'd been pondering... and then because I've ordered others from that site, it automatically charged my play money credit card. Argh! So I have spent more play money than I meant to just trying to use up the gift card. I did find a cool T-shirt on the site where I got my Third Eye Beanie, and again it was going to charge the last credit card I used, but at least this time I figured out how to get it to charge my gift card. I may donate what's left to yet another local Bach group (we are blessed with three), if they don't use PayPal. So annoying.
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