Just to show that Zach isn't the only one who can live-it-up in this apartment:
Case One:
Work has been a bit discouraging lately, particularly with graduate school looming as a Great Huge Unknown that, in September, I'll have to deal with. So, I took yesterday afternoon off to finish Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on the Bainbridge Island ferry, and later on at the Seattle Public Library.
The Seattle Public Library is... unique. And, yesterday, also quite warm. So warm, in fact that, on a particular neon green escalator, I decided my bright yellow University of Iowa hoodie clashed too painfully, and had to be removed.
I now know that one should not attempt to remove clothing items on an escalator.
Mid-shirtremoval, seeing nothing but bright yellow with my face pressed against fabric, my balance and inner ear decided to go on a cigarette break - four gigantic steps down-escalator later (translating to about seven escalator steps), I wrenched the shirt off, curled down my t-shirt (which had attempted to flee my torso in the process), apologized to the homeless man who'd finally broken my four-gigantic-steps-down journey, scrambled back up two steps to retrieve a flip-flop, and scrambled back up the remaining steps to retrieve my man-purse, just before it got sucked back down at the top of the escalator.
Case Two:
I fell down on the stairs today at work.
In front of a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Case Three:
I'm almost out of stamps. So, I bought more online.
Fifteen minutes later, I was gleefully informing Zach that I never knew how much fun buying stamps could be:
Me: "We're going to get stamps of American Scientists and Pacific Coral Reefs! I'm so excited!"
Zach: "Uh, okay."
Me: "One of the ones on the American Scientists set is Barbara McClintock!!!"
Zach: "Who's Barbara McClintock?"
Me: "She discovered transposable DNA elements."
Zach: "Huh?"
Me: "Nevermind. We're getting stamps! I'm so excited!!!"
Zach: "Uh -"
Me: "Dibs on McClintock."