December 19, 2007

• Month of Celebrations, and Oddness

  Another month has passed. I know I should make several, smaller updates with more frequency… I’ll try to get into that habit next year. But anyway, here’s what’s been going on the past month. Some interesting things have happened…

  Schpilkis!

  So a funny thing happened at work the other day…

  My coworker comes by to talk with me about something. While we’re talking, I feel a tingling sensation on my leg (lower-left calf). Without breaking conversation, I instinctively grab that part of my pants leg… only to hear the distinctive sound of an exoskeleton cracking.

  Me: Oh shit…
  CW: What?
  Me: I think a bug just crawled up my pants.

  We finish up what we were discussing, and then I start the slow process of rolling up my pants leg to see whatever it was I killed. Well, more accurately, to dump it out and pretend it never happened–I wanted to do that without actually seeing the thing.

  Now… one thing you should know. When I get disgusted, I swear. So, my other coworkers heard me yelling a bunch of four-letter words when I rolled up my pants leg and saw the cockroach carcass fall out (American cockroach, not the smaller German cockroach). They started crowding around since they knew what had happened.

  Me: What the hell are you all watching for? Back away!

  I got some disinfectant and tried to cleanse my leg and pants-leg as best as possible. I spent the next couple of days walking around the office with my pants tucked into my socks, too.

  For our Secret Santa gift exchange earlier this week, guess what I got?

  A can of RAID.

  Eid Mubarak!

  On a brighter note, today is Eid-al-Adha. Yet again, I’m
  flying out one-day-late (I’m leaving for Nashville in just about an
  hour). Fortunately, I still went to prayers this morning at my old
  university, which is near my office; and, I’ll still spend this evening
  in Nashville with family. So, all is not lost.

  Other Nashville-related News

  Otherwise, there’s not really anything noteworthy that’s happened to me. Nothing I would want to bore you with, anyhow (mostly work-related things, or stuff that I’ll get around to talking about at a later date). But…

  1) My cousin just had a baby girl. I’ll see them soon when I come back to Nashville. She rejected my suggestion for a name, though–the name I suggested was Kaisera.

  2) One of my friends in DC (well, she’s a family friend I’ve known all through growing up in Nashville) had her 30th birthday a couple weeks back. Since she’s a family friend, I can almost consider her a big sister. Which means I might even get to make age-related jokes.

  3) I just got the third Phoenix Wright game. One of these days I’ll make one big post about the Phoenix Wright series.

  Um… otherwise, I’ll be in Nashville and Atlanta for a week. I’ll be back, and maybe with pictures this time. ‘Til then. KF

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