odds and ends

to be sure, there are pictures from the missouri trip to post, but there have been a few (read: two) odds and ends that just haven't seemed to fit into previous posts.

for example, when is the right time to say, "i burned my rug with an iron?" seriously. that happened. i took a picture to prove it.

it's crazy, right? my iron was heating up on the floor while i folded clothes and it tipped over for not even 10 seconds and that's what i was left with. apparently my rug had some sort of special, smooth coating on it. . . that melts. so, while it wasn't burned, there was that melty-waxy, iron-shaped spot forever etched into my beautiful rug.

i got tired of looking at it after about a week and a half. sadly, the rug is with us no more. pity, too, because it was a good one.

other nonsense? i got a couple of pictures back from that alumni event that i participated in a few weekends ago. it turned out to be a fairly fruitful venture and i've gotten to do a few other schmoozy things since then. you can see the rest of the pictures from that weekend on the alumni office's flikr site. you can't tell by my face, but i actually had a pretty good time at the event.

believe it or not, i've been asked to "say a few words" at the groundbreaking ceremony in a few weeks that kicks off the renovation and addition to the psychology building. i'm essentially reading a short speech that's being prepared for me. i'm also hoping that nobody really pushes me too hard on how i feel about the addition, because in all truth, i'm not going to be here when it's done. i don't imagine that's the kind of thing they're looking for, though.

still trying to get some work done before leaving (again) to go to dc on saturday. skew and nick are out to visit before skew leaves for afghanistan in june. not exactly what we were hoping to celebrate, but a good reason to get together, nonetheless.