The official, amazing, aimless chitchat thread.
So this is where we go to make small talk that doesn't really fit into other threads.
It's the thread with no attention span!
Frequent, arbitrary changes of topic are encouraged. In fact, they are mandatory.
So, I was just thinking, wouldn't it be awesome to have the decor in each room of your house be inspired by a food? Like, I was cutting up eggplant today, making my accidental eggplant chips, and I though, wow, this eggplant looks so pretty against this green plate! I would love to have a room inspired entirely by eggplant colors. And then I thought there could be ones inspired by mangoes and apples and sweet potatoes and pretty much any other pretty food.
Hey, a friend of mine made these really awesome mosaics of all her food pictures based on color. THIS is what I mean:
http://flickr.com/photos/bzms/2262377042/in/photostream/
So, what was I saying?
Mimi is a pastry fiend. Any pastry type thing: pie, cake, waffles - she's on it. AND SHE'S STEALTH. She nearly stole a whole waffle today.
And if it's any non-pastry food, she's like, what is this? And where is my pie?
I had a cat who was like that as well. Donuts and tortillas were her favorites.
congrats on going back to school!
Thanks! I am excited about it. It's going well so far even though I spend a lot of time doing my reading and homework for school. It will all be worth it when I get a job in the field afterwards.
Also, hi back to Shell!
SO U GUYZ
I have two more rotations for my 4th year in vet school to schedule.
I was *going* to schedule a 2-week dermatology rotation in Portland in Sept and a 4-week dentistry rotation in San Diego in March.
However, this dermatology one has been difficult to schedule. I've been trying to set it up since October, but apparently I needed to receive some email from them before sending in my paperwork. I hadn't received it, so I had them try a different email address, and it still didn't work. Each time I called, I talked to the receptionist at the front desk who was very nice but wasn't the one handling the situation, and that person I never got to talk to, oddly. Finally I tried sending them an email so they could reply (and I'd be sure to get it, right?), but no luck. Then I tried a different email. No luck. Called, and the front desk receptionist seemed frustrated with me (I swear I was polite and patient this whole time, though this was going on for months). I had asked her a couple times before what exactly the email was (some places just send you an intro letter, stating dress code and responsibilities and such, and others have you fill out contracts or liability agreements), and she couldn't tell me. Finally, I called last week and she had me call when the actual email-person would be in (JESUS H CHRIST, BEFORE IT WAS THAT SHE WAS IN BUT ALWAYS BUSY OR WHATEVER). I spoke to this person, finally. Apparently, the email was confirming that the dates I requested were available (which I had known since I first called), and to go ahead and send in my paperwork... And, she didn't know I had been calling this whole time and trying to get in touch with her. Really, I could have had this squared away back in October. I have no idea what was happening meanwhile - did the receptionist not take my messages, or did the email person never read them? Anyway, now email-person has to check that the dates I want are still available since it's been so long... And I'm just all :/ about it, because how pleasant is this going to be with that awkward history and likely disorganization, PLUS my faculty advisor at school doesn't like their doctor much, so... But, I wanted to be in Portland, and wanted to cover dermatology.
However, there is another place in Portland - a place at which I could get an internship after graduation - which has a pretty good reputation, and I know someone in the class above me who is having a good time there right now. The thing is, though, they don't have dermatology. The only subject I could do there is surgery.
So my options are to contact them to do a surgery rotation there, forget about dermatology, and do my dentistry rotation in March.
Or I could drop dentistry and do derm & surgery.
But I can't do all three. Only room for two.
Most of the time, to get an internship at a practice, you have to meet them before January of that year (so before Jan 2013 in my case), so I'd have to do Awesome Portland Place in that Sept time, not March. I kinda liked the idea of doing March, only because if I had found a job in Portland, I could spend that time looking for an apartment, vs hurriedly doing so somehow, between rotations (a weekend's amount of time). Of course, that would pretty much preclude me from working there (bit of a catch 22).
Ramble ramble ramble... point is I can't figure out which route I should take, and I have no real way of knowing which subjects I should do rotations in prior to graduation, other than what faculty recommend - which is essentially everything. =/ I don't know how likely I am to even get an internship at Awesome place, plus I am already doing that type of rotation for another internship place in Portland.
and, btdubs, I haven't scheduled the dentistry rotation yet because they've been "working on their schedule" since November and never get back to me. However, they're supposed to be great and even do dental work on tigers and other zoo-living animals (FOR REAL).
Meanwhile, I'm bored here in Nebraska*, making cookies for my classmates.
*cow stuff
I didn't read all that, but are you still going to San Antonio?
Yes I am, Ms.tl;dr
Is anyone else having probs with facebook today?
I did that thing where you sign up for someone to make you something by the end of 2012 and then you offer to make other people things. I committed to three people, have my first thing done, AND I CAN'T MAIL IT BECAUSE HIS ADDRESS IS IN FB. :-/
(I thought his was going to take the longest, but it's the first done. He likes biking and microbrews, so I found four bicycle designs, copied them to powerpoint to make them the same size, printed them, put each one into a different glass (I used a set of four), traced the negative space with puffy paint, let that dry, applied glass etching cream to the designs, and then peeled off the puffy paint. I thought it was going to be absolutely painful and involve meticulous cutting of contact paper with an x-acto knife. I'm stoked about how easy it turned out to be.)
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fb - They should give you the rotation in honor of your tenacity.
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They look like this. I made them too close to the top, but when I send them I'll pretend I didn't notice.
I KNO RIGHT
So, when you guys cook, do you always use the stove fan thing? All the time, some of the time, hardly ever?
I have always used the stove fan, partly because I've had problems with boiling water setting off a fire alarm, but mostly because I don't want my whole place smelling like whatever I'm making.
Reason I ask is 'cause I'm here in a temporary roommate situation, and no one uses it! I mean like, k, you're cooking pasta, whatevs. But even when someone's making something with more odor, or when someone's burned something... no fan. In fact, we had issues with the fire alarm going off every time we turned on the oven or used the toaster, and still, no one thought to use it and just dismantled the fire alarm instead.
Bottom line is: U GUYS, USE THE FAN SO MY ROOM DOESNT SMELL LIKE BURNT CHEESE AND BROCCOLI. SRSLY. ALSO, SOMEONE TOOK THE ONLY TEASPOON. PLZ TO RETURN. KTHXBAI
Always! I even sometimes use it if I just have the oven on, especially the broiler. Does that make a difference? No idea.
Always. I like to get my neighbours curious about the smell of Indian or Thai spices in my cooking. The fan exhausts out into the airspace.
We have a fan over our stove but it vents into my closet. It's horrid. It just blows gross smokey air into my room, we don't use it. I think it's there because my room was a garage so it made a bit more sense then.
whoa, that's weird. And inconvenient.
We only use it if we're making something really strong-smelling and/or spicy, or if there's a lot of steam. We have an over-the-stove fan that vents into a cupboard above it (?) and also a fan in the ceiling that vents outside (same kind of fan as you find in bathrooms). Obviously we use the ceiling one more. And we open windows if the fan isn't enough (like if we're roasting habaneros or something).
WHO WATCHED THE PUPPY BOWL?!!?!??!
I watched it up to the kitty half time show then took a nap.
The half time show always makes me tired.
hahaha the half time show was like 15 minutes long!!!
I was at work for most of the Puppy Bowl, but I left it on so the cats could watch. I'm not sure they cared either way, but it's the thought that counts.
Also, the last four houses I've lived in have been completely void of that precious fan thingie, which means my house always smells like a combination of onions and air freshener. Your room mates are friggin' barbaric for electing to live like that!
In case anyone was wondering, it's not a good idea to go walking in the snow with toe shoes ¬_¬...
Silver lining: the footprints you leave really freak out other passersby.
In about 8 days, 3 of us have consumed a 17-oz bottle of sriracha.
And some kind soul brought us another bottle.
CHALLENGE: CAN WE FINISH THIS BOTTLE BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON?
I think so.
I got garlic sriracha the other day for the first time. I haven't had sriracha in general in a LONG time. I 'm a sissy with spicy stuff and so is my mom and I told her how good it is and told her to stick her finger in it and taste it and she freaked out and it was awesome.
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