For those who are curious like me...

....There are only four names left for hurricanes this season and if we run out, we start naming them after Greek letters.

Pathetic Katrina fund raiser: Last Friday I was at a bar for the end of the season softball party and I notice some posters up with pictures of various rainbow colored squares. Turns out someone is selling colored cubes for $5 and donating $2 of each sale to the Red Cross. Colored cubes?! Remember, just because it's for charity doesn't mean you have to buy it. Lame!

Important announcement: The Central Arlington Library has the most uncomfortable toilet seats in history. They are too narrow and hit your bones in just the wrong place. I know I'm not oddly shaped so I can't be alone in this. You'd think someone would test them before mass producing OR buying them! I suppose I should be glad they have toilet seats period. In some countries all you get is a hole and not even a curtain.

Faucets, Child Abuse, Grocery Stores

1. Random thought: The company that makes the faucets in our apartment is called Price-Pfister. I find this so cute. It sounds like a dyslexic kid with a speech impediment trying to say Fisher-Price.

2. I'm having a moral dilemma at work. I've encountered a case of child abuse and I'm not sure what to do. I was entering in data for some exams when I came across a student born on Christmas Day 1980. The parents must've had a little too much egg nog, because they decided to name her Christmas Joy. No joke. And it doesn't help that her last named looks like it should be pronounced "Cunts", but starts with a K and ends with a Z. (I don't want her finding my blog if she googles herself.) Are people so elated when a child is born that they lose all sense of judgment?? Because that is not an optimal time for that to happen.

3. When we moved into to our current apartment in April, I was delighted to be right next to a Safeway. However, the delightfulness is hampered by the fact that it's always understaffed, the shelves are half empty, I have to search through ten cartons of eggs before I find one with no cracks, there's no Carnation Instant Breakfast, the workers all look sixteen, no one's ever at the Starbucks stand waiting to serve you, and the milk is bad on the sell-by date. Screw you, Safeway, I drive half a mile to Giant now!

Amish, Katrina, Mono, Numbering

1. I had a dream last night that I married an amish guy. It was kind of an accident but not really. I never felt serious about him, but for some reason didn't break it off. During the engagement I told myself in the back of my mind that I could run away at anytime even after we're married because he's amish and would have no real means of finding me. Up to a couple hours after the wedding this is what I planned to do, but then all of a sudden I felt obligated to take the marriage seriously which freaked me out and I woke up.

2. I'm not gonna say how much I've donated to the Katrina relief, but I will admit it is a very, very unimpressive amount. Especially after hearing about how single celebrities are writing checks for a million dollars. I will say I do feel a bit noble because I gave my money at a doughnut selling fund raiser in my office building and even though I didn't like any of the donuts they had, I kept in mind that this wasn't the Katrina victims' fault and put in some cash.

3. Mono update: Feeling much better, but still need to go to the doctor for a follow up. I decided to start being a little active. Last week I was feeling so lazy, I'd be at work looking forward to going home, plopping on the futon, eating ice cream and watching Shepard Smith. After a while that feels really gross so this weekend I went walking and explored different parts of Arlington. I tried running, but after less than a fourth of a mile I wanted to collapse.

4. I like this numbering style Melinda uses. Hope you don't mind that I stole it!