why I like my colleagues

I had several great chats with colleagues yesterday -- some about work and some purely social. I really like the people I work with.

I just got an email from a colleague that really made me smile. She and I are working with a student who needs help with test-taking. She's bringing over the student's exams for the semester so that the student and I can go over them. I'm essentially "checking out" the exams from her because her department doesn't release them to students. Here's our email exchange:

Her: When do you want me to drop off/ or when do you want to pick up the exams?

Me: If you feel like getting out, I've assigned myself homework between 10 and 11, so I'll definitely be in my office then. I can also plan to stop by whenever you're free.

Her: We need to talk about 2 things. 1. What do you mean "you assigned yourself homework" ? And 2. Why would you ever do such a thing? I'll bring over her stuff around 10.

She's the same person who turned me onto Cute Overload. It's clearly been a good week at work so far.

randoms from my trip to NC this week

I wanted to compile a list of things that cracked us up and/or made us happy during what was an extremely stressful trip this wee. I'm hoping that by making this list, I'll be inclined to come back and write about them.

Filter Plant Rd., also know as Fill-Her-Pants Rd.
Weiner Works
Guns Plus
Sha-Fay-Fay
Nam, or The Middle Finger followed by "the town formerly known as Nam"
the Macy's incident
blowing out a flip flop
Sean John clothes
rocking the Caddy
the leaky toilet
the Coug
Debbie Downer and the XM radio
Chick-fil-A
"Arriving at Scott"
throwing Rudy's bone out the window
leaving your house unlocked in the middle of a city
drugs, particularly klonopin, xanax, and pepto capsules
The Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill
the flight attendant on the diet who smiled kindly while we ate Cinnabon
Pre-Board Authorization
landing back in Chicago

how to make me squee like a little girl

Amanda (she'll always be Ajay to me) over at The Martha Initiative is a friend from high school/grad school. Last weekend, she went to the Wilton Tent Sale, which sounded like it would be awesome. Knowing that I use Wilton dyes to dye yarn, she offered to send me her cast-offs after restocking with new dyes; apparently, they don't taste as good after awhile, and she uses them for their original intent--baking, icing, etc. Not only did she get an awesome haul at the tent sale, but she's sending me TWENTY-FIVE jars of dye.

*dies from the awesome*

Honestly, even without the dyes, Ajay and The Martha Initiative make my days happier because that girl is funny. I don't know if it's just because I can actually imagine her doing and saying the things she writes, but I'm amused with each new post. If you're interested in domestic goddessness with a sense of humor, go check her out. For serious.

Thanks, Ajay!

another fabulous fail

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your fail is my triumph

Heinous introduced me to the FAIL blog when I visited her a few weeks ago. We looked at some pretty damn hilarious ones then, but I haven't seen many lately that have had me actually cracking up. This one today was good:


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I think these really are funnier when shared.