my fellow americans! according to my random holidays calendar tonight is haunted refrigerator night. we all know what tomorrow is. :D

in that vein, the monthly admin lunch was today and of course it was a halloween lunch. we even had candy, stickers to decorate our trick-or-treat bags, and costumes. well, some costumes - a nun, a shark, the mouse from if you give a mouse a cookie (she wore overalls and had made a giant chocolate chip cookie out of cardboard), the green monster from fenway park, and possibly someone else. i brought a big plastic knife - for dismembering bodies in my bathtub - and dishwashing gloves - to wash up afterwards and also not leave fingerprints - and was a homicidal maniac (because they look like everyone else :D ). it was an excuse to wear my dishwashing glove earrings which my former roommate got me at the museum of clean in pocatello, idaho.

anyway, fun was had and chocolate was acquired and, uh, left at work.

and then on the way home a kid on the t who reminded me of cousin m's boytwin called me ma'am (MA'AM) and tried to give up his seat for me. i said thank you but no, i sit all day, i can stand on the train. he thought that was kind of funny. but i was ma'am-ed! MA'AM.

sigh.

yesterday was the general support staff lunch (indian food, yum) and tomorrow is the pi lunch that's every other friday so i only had to make my own lunch twice this week. sometimes i really like where i work.

when i moved i got rid of a couple of bookcases and got two from ikea to replace them. they came friday (and i met the two little girls who live across the hall), my sister came over saturday to help put them together and give me opinions on moving furniture, i moved all the books and knickknacks into them on sunday. after we built bookcases we got dinner from whole foods and watched the thursday murder club which was delightful and also had paul freeman! who you may or may not know as belloq in raiders of the lost ark. i did not recognize him at all and not just because raiders was forty-four years ago.

and sunday my curling team lost. again. my skip is kickstarting a witchy curling game which i share because a. he's my skip, but mostly b. CURLING GAME.

since stranger things comes back next month i've been rewatching the entire thing with a couple folks on discord. we just finished s1 and i forgot how creepy it is! i mean i remember that it's creepy but not how creepy. which is very. still like it, tho.

have an interview with helen mirren. because she's pretty cool.

there's a whole cookbook of gravestone recipes, those being recipes carved into people's gravestones. the cookbook author collected the recipes, tested them, and talked to the families of the dead person. sometimes love is stored in the gravestone.

there's a frank lloyd house in new hamster hampshire that's been added to the hysteric register but more importantly is open to the public. it's a usonian automatic which were intended to be nice houses that middle class folks could assemble themselves (i guess kind of like sears houses but designer) but which turned out to be a lot harder to put together than wright expected. consequently there aren't a lot of them. so who wants to go to new hampshire and see this one? :D

a kid in new zealand swallowed "up to 100" magnets, necessitating surgery when they all stuck to each other. that is a lot of magnets. O.O also, dude, why the hell did you SWALLOW them?