It's not a cry you can hear at night, it's not somebody who's seen the light...

I organised a sweep at work for the Melbourne Cup (early because a lot of people are taking Monday off) and we were drawing horse names today. Cassie pulled a name out of the Mickey Mouse hat and she laughed and yelled "HAH! Think Monkey!"

I sighed and said, "honey, that says 'Think Money'."

Her reply, a rather crestfallen: "...Oh. That's not as funny." Which is true! Still, I was very amused. And then I walked across the busy city street to the campus to let the student centre peeps draw names. Carrying the Mickey Mouse hat. I got SO many strange looks and I just waved :D

Oh, and today our house WASN'T attacked by a wayward swarm of crazy flying ant-things!

Some days are just made of awesome.

HAhahahahahahhahaa! You know, if dispatching Pennwise was done this way, It would have been a very different book! Instead of the ritual of Chud (minus one umlauty thing) they just lure him on front of a television set and blast Beyonce at him. GO, PENNYWISE GO...AHHAHAHAHHAAHAH WE GOT YOU NOW!

It would have been much shorter and somewhat less enjoyable, but very a-a-a-amusing.

Ah, Stephen King in-jokes. ILY Mr King. Marry me.

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts. That's a bit different than Single Ladies!

And, completely off-topic, at work when I am on break I put my Sirius Black action figure up so my team leader knows. Except today I forgot and my boss said, "You're on break where's your little troll?!" And I was like "IT'S SIRIUS BLACK OMG!" And she thought that was hilarious... He needed to have his honour defended!

*shifty*

Dear Poopoohead,

Oh, it is so on.

I will use the milk to make my oaties if I want and you can KISS MY GRITS! Except no, because I want to eat them and if you kissed them I'd be all D:

You're probably the meaniemoo who stole all my Ovaltine. I'll get you. Just you wait. I have spies everywhere. Well...Lisa and Cassie. BUT THEY ARE ON TO YOU! YOU PROBABLY STOLE MY MUG TOO! AND MY FORK which I am absolutely, positively, mostly sure I didn't accidentally throw out. Oh no. It was you, you smug, little, Ovaltine-stealer. And when you least expect it, I am going to steal something of yours. Like your paper clips. Or I will staple allllll your papers together and then steal your clawey remover-staplesy-thing! HAHAHA!

JUST YOU WAAAIITTTTTTT!

*shifty eyes*

Observationally Yours,

Lara

THOU SHALT NOT BOGART MY OVALTINE!!!

She hath spoken. Thus shall it be.

(ZOMG Data/Geordie foreverz omgz!!1!)

I didn't wake up on time this morning! I still managed to get to work 5 minutes before nine, thanks to the lovely Lewi. But usually I am an hour early, so this was most distressing. I have to say though...it feels like I've been here for about ten minutes, and it's already almost 2, which leaves only 3 hours left.

Weird.

Maybe I should sleep in every day?! (Watch Lewi negate this 'plan' with utter vehemency.)

:D

Also, I love Ovaltine. Stupid, addictive malt.

Today? I answered the phone, "Lara Moses, this is Fees speaking." And then I tried not to die laughing while talking to a student who was severely confused. I'm never going to live this one down, though I did take the opportunity to shout, "That's right, I AM FEES" to my coworkers (who were sniggering) when I had finished the conversation.

Ahhahahahaa oh god, me.

And then I ran into a divider, and while walking to lunch, I almost twisted my ankle in a pothole on Smith Street.

I am AWESOME today, but at least I'm in a pretty good mood anyway!

*snort* While I was gone, Campus Operations circulated the email which said the following:

Please note that you need to hold the buttons in the toilet to get a full flush – remember to check the bowl as other people need to use the facilities after you. Would you also inform your postgraduate students as I don’t have email addresses for them.

Juuuussstttt wow. And that was the entire email, so it wasn't piggy-backing another issue. Good for a laugh, though!

Sooooo, I've been in discussions with the Uni regarding studying my Masters. And there was a chance I could study a unit this coming semester, starting in July. I just read the course outline and had a COMPLETE NERDGASM AT WORK (I actually squeed and they were like O_O)

Topics will include:
 Mainstream ethical theories relevant to human services: Aristotle and Virtue Ethics, Mill/Bentham/Singer and Utilitarianism; Kant and Deontology; Gilligan/Noddings and the Ethic of Care.
 Main philosophical concepts underpinning the practice of working with children and young people: utilitarianism, deontology, care, legalism
 Applied and Professional Ethics of the practitioner and ethics in working with children and young people.
 Concepts of children and young people’s welfare and protection.

OMG. AristotleBenthamKantSingeromgomgappliedethicsstudies*drooooool*

Ahem.

And that very nerdgasm is why I decided to wait to study it in 2010. I can see myself in Vienna, opting to sit in a hotel room to read Nicomachean Ethics for the third time (the second time I read it, it was for fun - no jokes). I am SO looking forward to this. I haven't been this excited to study anything in a long damn time. And so as much as I want to do this RIGHT FREAKING NOW I'm going to wait until I can thoroughly enjoy it. (Watch me start the readings now anyway ;))

I'm proud of me right now. Feel free to join in ;)

OH YES! I forgot a conversation from one of the ladies I work with which occurred during a lull at the registration desk. Jay from Graduations nearly died when we heard.

Her: OH! Hey! What does DNA stand for?!
Me: Deoxyribonucleic acid.
Her: *blink blink* Uhm... It's a joke! It's National Dyslexic Association. You're supposed to say you don't know!
Me: Oh! I didn't know it was a joke!!
Her: That's the first time anyone has actually answered me!! I can't believe you knew that!
Me: *shrugs*

Ah, science. You are a wonderful thing. You make me miss the entire point of conversations sometimes. Thanks.

I love my job!!

*Walks into Michael the boss' office with an actual query*
Michael: *looks up excitedly* GUESS WHAT?!
Lara: Oh god, what?!
Michael: I'm going to Disneyworld!!
Lara: ...Oh? That's...good?
Michael: YEAH! It's my favourite! I've been four times! Once I went with my mate...but he got motion sick. It probably wasn't the best idea, huh?
Lara: No, probably not.
Michael: Sorry, I'm in a weird mood, I had too much Coke.
Lara: *Bursts into unrelenting laughter that has me sprawled on his desk gasping for breath* *squeaks* You're a Cokehead! *continues laughter*
Michael: ....O_O

He thought he broke me! :D

Also? Best quote ever? Michael: *Walks into the room at 9 am and announces* "There was a stripper at my house this weekend and now I can't get the coconut oil smell out." *shuffles into office, dejectedly*

And it's funnier without the context so you get NONE! Bwahhaha!