A crappy day

that, frankly, is wrapping up a crappy couple of months.

Here are a couple of things said to me today:

a) A guy who works with an organization I sometimes work with called me today to tell me that he had used me as a negative example with his boss. It was actually a round-about attempt to compliment me on his part...but it landed quite flat as my pride is a big issue.

b) The guy I have been dating on/off for awhile told me, as we were navigating a disagreement, and I quote "I'm attacted to you. I just think it might all be physical." I've never actually had a guy I've dated for a significant period of time say that to me before. (Wow - just read my post and can't believe I just said it that way. Let me rephrase: I've NEVER had a guy say that to my face.) And he couldn't come up with a softer, more respectful delivery? Then he kept denying that he said it. Let's just say this was the icing on the cake I needed to not EVER talk to him again. And the very nice long-sleeve Bears jersey I got him for Christmas? It just became my most expensive nightshirt.

Seriously. Over. Dating.

Lots of HYSTERICAL 'Sound Bites'

These are some funny 'isms' that have been said to me or around me, recently:

a) "Just out of curiousity, who all is coming tonight?" asked on a Wednesday, after several emails about an activity that we're doing this Saturday.

b) "Oh no...I think she may be mildly retarded..."

c) "It's because I'm a f****** retard, that's why!"

d) "You need to leave your movie and come pay your respects to keetchka (cat). She's dying. She has the milky eyes."

e) "I hope I haven't kept you awake with my coughing" said by my downstairs neighbor.

f) "Be as loud as you want. We'll just take out our hearing aids." said by my downstairs neighbor.

g) "You know what would be great? What if I moved my car out of the garage, and you had your movers put all your stuff in there, then you could carry it all upstair the next day after my movers come to move my stuff out." said by an old roommate to a new roommate. We're talking couches, full-size beds, dressers, etc.

h) This was posted to my online class, by my small group project facilitator, the day before our dialogue was 'open' online, "I thought I'd get us started, so everyone understands the expectations and the assignment." We all have the syllabus, we all can read, we all have comprehension skills. You're not the professor, you can't answer questions about the assignment. Thanks.

I'm eerily good at this game

Check it out.

Chicago's Complaint Choir

I want to go to this so badly!!! You have no idea.

Ladybugs do not belong in mashed potatos

This post is not for the faint of stomach...

Last night I made a little pouch of butter and herb instant mashed potatos. I was on bite three or four, when I found something chewy. Thinking it was a hard piece of herb, I began chewing it. Then I thought it might be plastic, bc it wasn't disentigrating.

I pulled it out of my mouth, when I realized I was tasting something very un-butter-and-herb-potato-like....and it was a ladybug shell. I screamed, flicked the shell and spent the next ten minutes so grossed out.

It's good to know that some things never change...

I have been home sick the last couple of days, and daytime tv is pretty much the same as ever. I turned on the tv the last two mornings to find Maury Povich doing DNA tests to find out if cheating women's husbands were the fathers of their children. Weren't Ricki Lake, Maury and Leeza Gibbons all doing this one back in 1990?

It's good to know that some things do change...
Steve from The Jerry Springer Show now has his own show. Glad he's moving up in the world. I wonder if it's filmed in Chicago, too?

Miscellaneous....

Some miscellaneous notes from today:
a) I'm sick again. What the heck is going on with my body?!?! I don't normally get sick this often or this bad. I went to work because I'm tired of taking sick days and because I had a big meeting today, but I definitely have a fever this time. Booo!!!!!

b) There has been some repeated harassment by locals of the students on campus this semester that resulted in a student being beaten last night by three guys. Hearsay is that the locals are from a gang, and that there were several students around who watched the beating but only one person phoned the police while another student stepped in and helped out the student being beaten. Apparently the locals said they would be back with guns next time. I'm guessing that's why only two people helped out. If you're a praying person, pray for our campus and its leadership as they try to figure out next steps to keep the violence from escalating and further.