What happened?

I was in the grocery store Friday, and I noticed the absence of banana milk. Banana flavored milk was a great treat for me. Apparently, when I left the country, it tipped the scales. Not enough people were into it to keep it in the stores.

I do have to admit that it's taken me several months to note the disappearance, so I shouldn't be shocked. But now that I can't have it, I want it all the more.

Adult Art Project

This isn't going to be about photos of naked people. That would be "Adult-Art Project."

Anyway. This is about stuffing envelopes. That's my adult art project. There are stickers, and glue, and markers. It's not just any envelope stuffing. This is going to famous people. It's nice to know that someone still thinks of Cindy Lauper.

The idea is that famous people doodle, and then the pics are auctioned off in April to raise money for one of their programs.

I've been working on K's and L's. I almost slipped a note in Lisa Kudrow's envelope letting her know that I enjoyed the "Smelly Cat" song on Friends. I admit that I often sing it to Buster, with proper substitutions. But there's no "outside the box" creativity in adult art projects.

Offering opinions...

U of I sent me an alumni survey. It was once said that I am passionate about any survey I take. This, I can't deny. I've always given thought to the questions, and even how I answered them.

I noticed two things:

1. I really liked the boxes at the end of each page. They basically asked that I share any other thoughts I had about the topic at hand. It was open season for me to discuss what I really value about my undergraduate degree. I do think this is a "blog residual" - my ability to spout off about anything.

2. For the last week, I have been entering survey results into a computer as part of the current job assignment (I'm in vet-med, and it rules). As I was checking the boxes, I was taking stock of the questions to guess which they will check for correlation.

But I have found that the only really meaningful data comes from the boxes at the end...

Temp job...

So I'm in the Dean's Office at Vet Med. I already have a picture of Buster up in my cubical area. It's a great place to work. Jeans on Fri, and a boss that knows how to teach you things without making you feel like a moron for not knowing it in the first place...

Buster has been a bit hyperactive this week. I've got a full time gig now, so he's not used to having so much time on his hands... err, paws. I sense the dog park in our future.

Studio 60....

Yeah, I have been watching intently. It's like the old days of West Wing. The "walk and talk" is there, the camera shots, the great dialog. Timothy Busfield, Bradley Whitford...

The main actors are playing characters very different that what we're used to seeing. But I don't have a discongruent feeling. Can you really see Kelsy Grammer as anything other than Fraiser, or a voice on the Simpsons?

I don't think it will inspire me to move to Hollywood, but it's great TV.

Retro Technology

So I used a typewriter at work on Friday, pretty much for the first time. My parents had one, but I don't recall using for anything of consequence. Even my typing class was on a computer.

It took some adjusting. I was filling out a form, and it was tricky to get the spacing just right. There was no blinking vertical line indicating where the letter would appear on the page. There was a "paper up" and a "paper down" button. The "paper up" works exactly like the "page down" key on a computer.

I had quite the sense of accomplishment when I was finished.