this is what my yahoo!/konfabulator weather widget had to tell me this morning, and so far, it’s been right.
i like the misty cloud picture best of perhaps all of the little weather pictures that it has in it’s library, because it’s subtle and makes me feel like i’m just looking at the widget through a fog machine, or like i was suddenly transported into an elementary school haunted house and there’s a bowl of dry ice in the room.
it’s nice that it provides me that little bit of graphical enjoyment, because the weather itself is not so much fun, particularly when one has to walk to eigenmann in the misty morning and stay there for a meeting and then not know how to get oneself home once it starts to rain harder.

sigh

luckily, tiffanie is nice enough to come pick me up for the dance, so i had best not keep her waiting

the little creamer cups that they have here for the coffee amuse me.
they say “2%” or “10%” and my first reaction to the latter was “whoa!! TEN percent?!”
and then i realized that it’s just half and half, and that’s quite accurate.
methinks they do not present this information to americans because it would Freak Them Out as they pretend health consciousness with their coffee and egg mcmuffin.

i hate keys.

this afternoon, in what seemed a moment of true inspiration, i realized that i should move my office keys over to the little “removable” section of my keychain, where my bike key and my front door key live. this was because i had stopped using the “removable” section of my keychain because one day, after being happy with myself for removing it and reducing the number of keys i had to carry around, i found myself locked out of my office. this proved to me that the “removable” keychain was a bad idea.
today, however, as i left the office for fencing and tried to carry as few things as possible, i thought: “kynthia, the office keys are the Only other keys that you might need in a situation like that. just move them. it still makes for a lot smaller keychain.”
sweet!
i am such a genius.

all afternoon this plan works well.

(more…)

i just spent a few minutes thinking that i had lost my copy of ambient findability.
it was actually in my backpack (quite responsible of me!), but as i looked for it i almost found myself wishing that it really was lost, because the thought of telling the story of how i lost a book about the importance of findability…
that would just be too much fun.
:)

now back to reading.
it’s a good book.
i’ll have more to say later.

my bathroom is small, and does not use it’s limited space on this earth in an efficient manner.
there’s not really a good place for a towel rack, and the shelves are all shallow, high up, and directly above the toilet.
this is frustrating, and i have been telling myself to buy little drawers or baskets for the shelves for a long time, thereby eliminating the constant fear that i will drop bandaids and soap into the toilet whenever i get a new roll of toilet paper.
but the shelves are an annoying size, so it’s not that easy to find things that fit.
today though, i got a little basket at target and i decided to buy it and try it out, with the idea that i could get another one later.

first step: randomly throw things into basket without concern for final organizational decisions, just to see what it looks like.
conclusion: a definite improvement! i’ll take another!

but why was there a yo-yo in my bathroom?

i’m going to west virginia this weekend and i just have one thing to say to myself as i scramble to finish my work and prepare:
chill the f$#k out.

a second ago i went to send something in campus mail. i was being a good girl and getting my work done, but i was distracted, and forgot to bring the address with me from my office.
i decided to ask the front deskperson for his directory, which was a brilliant maneuver, but i couldn’t remember the word directory, and i was in the middle of eating a cookie, so my timing was a little off.
i ended up doing that little “oops! i’m chewing” hand gesture, and then stammered: “can i borrow your… um… address… finding… tool?”
at which point i cracked up laughing.

he laughed as well, and it seemed genuine, but he looked at me a little strangely as he handed over the book.
a few minutes earlier we had engaged in a discussion about grapefruit.

“is that like the way a garbage man is a sanitation engineer?” he asked.
“yeah,” i grinned. “we should make it an official name badge.”
he smiled and nodded, and i looked up my address.

i escaped without raising too much suspicion, but it was a bit close for comfort.

hopefully i can make it through the small remainder of the day.

tiffanie referred to this somewhat offhandedly yesterday, but i just found out that google video has all of the super bowl commercials nicely lumped together in one place.

in case you didn’t catch them.
or were watching Football.

my general impression after the game was that they weren’t as good, on the whole, as they’ve been in the past, but it’s kind of fun to have them all in one place, and a few are pretty funny.
i liked:

• emerald nuts (i have no idea what they do, but i thought it was damn funny, and stand by that even after tripping over some stats and this quote from medialife magazine: *And Emerald Nuts, which made several top 10 lists last year, scored very low this year with an odd ad that combined machete enthusiasts and a druid.*
  sounds like comic gold to me… ;)
• fed ex: stick
• dove: campaign for real beauty (jacki mentions this campaign in a recent comment thread on erik’s blog, and i have been intending to add my own two cents (but alas, i am a pitiful slacker))
• sprint: locker room (this was the only one i could recall from memory after the super bowl, which is somewhat pathetic since i am listing 425 of them now that i have the links to jog my memory. i think it just says something about the lasting impression of physical comedy… or the fact that lucy brought it up as her favorite… yeah, that might have made it stick.)
• sprint: couch
• mastercard: macgyver

and budweiser: the wave was also pretty fun, though it would get higher props somehow if someone really took the time to figure it out for real. but they didn’t.

and finally, in a lovely display of the potential next wave of internet-driven commercial fandom, google led me to discover these, which i didn’t see on sunday because i must have been snacking or going to the bathroom, but which nevertheless amuse me:

• sierra mist
• bud light: secret fridge
• united: dragon

enough rampant commercialism.
yaargh.

because then i forget it.

and that sucks.

i’ve been getting a fair bit of comment spam lately, and most of it is hilarious gibberish that begins with something like “your site is awesome!” and then breaks into something more to the tune of “small green dogs juxtapose birch leaves and eat rubber tuna!!”

tonight, however, i received either the trickiest or the most benign yet, because it just said:

Your site is very cognitive. I think you will have good future.:)

and gave me a link to a guns n’ roses fan page.

awwww….

tastes crunchy and faintly of vanilla.