First: I apologize to all whose comments I have failed to return. My connection has been bizarrely slow to load lately, and I think SG has also become slower with the new design, and as a result it is agonizingly painful to load people's pages to return comments. Also, I am a lazy good-for-nothing. But I will endeavor to get back to people this weekend, because waiting for the computer will give me an excuse to not draft answers to essay questions.
Second: I realized yesterday that clementines are mandarin oranges. I had previously been unaware of this, which is bizarre because I eat clementines by the crate and also like mandarin oranges, and had frequently wondered in the past why it was not possible to buy un-canned mandarin oranges. Now I know. And so do you!
Third: Whatever happened to Jell-O Pudding Pops? I used to love those suckers when I was a kid. Now you can't find them anywhere. But you can find Sunny Delight and Limeade flavored ice cream (not sherbert, ice cream), which makes no kind of sense to me. I refuse to believe that the scrumptacular goodness of the Pudding Pop was less popular than fucking Sunny Delight ice cream. Obviously there is a conspiracy behind this.
Fourth: This afternoon I went out to look at a new apartment for my Real Job, and it went well up until I mentioned that one of the two "rodents" on my lease application was a rat. Apparently the general manager believes that one rat will magically attract swarms of other rats to the building and cause them to proliferate into unstoppable hordes, which would actually be kind of cool if it were true. Because, among other things, it would make B-movies featuring Death By Rabid Rats incredibly cheap on the special-effects end. Unfortunately, as it is not true, this misconception is unlikely to do anything more than force me to lie about getting rid of the rat and then smuggle her in a month later. Lame.
Mostly I'm just annoyed at myself for not realizing that I should've claimed to have two "hamsters" in the first place, though. I forgot there are people who have an irrational dislike of rats. Stupid of me to overlook that. Oh well.
Second: I realized yesterday that clementines are mandarin oranges. I had previously been unaware of this, which is bizarre because I eat clementines by the crate and also like mandarin oranges, and had frequently wondered in the past why it was not possible to buy un-canned mandarin oranges. Now I know. And so do you!
Third: Whatever happened to Jell-O Pudding Pops? I used to love those suckers when I was a kid. Now you can't find them anywhere. But you can find Sunny Delight and Limeade flavored ice cream (not sherbert, ice cream), which makes no kind of sense to me. I refuse to believe that the scrumptacular goodness of the Pudding Pop was less popular than fucking Sunny Delight ice cream. Obviously there is a conspiracy behind this.
Fourth: This afternoon I went out to look at a new apartment for my Real Job, and it went well up until I mentioned that one of the two "rodents" on my lease application was a rat. Apparently the general manager believes that one rat will magically attract swarms of other rats to the building and cause them to proliferate into unstoppable hordes, which would actually be kind of cool if it were true. Because, among other things, it would make B-movies featuring Death By Rabid Rats incredibly cheap on the special-effects end. Unfortunately, as it is not true, this misconception is unlikely to do anything more than force me to lie about getting rid of the rat and then smuggle her in a month later. Lame.
Mostly I'm just annoyed at myself for not realizing that I should've claimed to have two "hamsters" in the first place, though. I forgot there are people who have an irrational dislike of rats. Stupid of me to overlook that. Oh well.
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It is easy to forget the irrational reactions some people have to some animals when we don't share them. Oh well. You surely didn't need to work for any rat-hating jerk anyway, right?
Yet another occasion for lamenting the dearth of job openings in the field of supervillainy.