New Informations

not just one information, but several informations.

1) you probably knew this about me already, but let's revisit it anyway... i'm a sucker for companionship. it gets lonely in my head, so i like having people around. even people who irritate me, if its the best i can do. and i'm working the first three days of this week. and zach had his birthday celebration at the house last night. twelve teenagers thumping around on the roof and the second floor, smoking, smoking, drinking, etc. so of course, as i lay in my little bed directly below them, the dog wheezing/snoring near my legs, i almost cried at the thought of fun, a party being had and me not participating at all. so i made a deal with myself that i would go up from eleven until midnight, then i would go to bed. because of the whole work thing. and i kept to it. but my god, am i tired today, and i always feel so guilty having to clean up after making myself smell like several kinds of smoke... grr... i want sleep.

2) "kangaroo" means "i can't understand you". really. its one of those awful stories of white people bopping around and seeing something new and grabbing their brown guide/captive and pointing and saying "what do you call that?" and of course the guide/captive replies "i have no clue what you just said" in their native language. so while there are probably words in the aboriginal language for kangaroo that would roughly translate to "great hairy annoying rat that kicks", the word we use literally means "i can't understand you".

3) disturbing news, this. i have my little dwarf lilies growing in my office garden. well, after much research on the subject, it appears likely that they will only bloom once and then fail to naturalize, perennialize, spread, and all those things one would want lilies to do. lily bulbs are delicate and lack a protective outer layer. they are also never completely dormant. so the longer they are out of the ground, the more likely they will become irrecoverably dehydrated and damaged. they'll still bloom once, because the growers pump them so full of plant steroids before packaging and shipping them, but they won't become established. this is all especially true of large commercial operations that may keep bulbs out of earth for long periods of time. so now i'm worried. because i want these little pot gardens to continue. i got the right bulb fertilizers and everything... poop. hope for the best with me.

i think that's all for now. brother's b-day celebration with mom tonight (dad last night), so more food, and probably i won't be able to exercise again, for the second day in a row. that blows.

cake is dangerous.