This isn’t the camping version, which has large quantities of Pantera and old school Metallica on it.

Memorabilia – Nine Inch Nails
Hollywood – Nickelback
Brakhage – Stereolab
Thimble Island – Rasputina
What Am I to You – Norah Jones
And It Stoned Me – Van Morrison
Like A Freight Train – Queen Bee & The Blue Hornet Band
I Don’t Have to Live This Way – Alison Krauss & Union Station
Singapore – Tom Waits
Welcome To Paradise – Green Day
What Is This Thing Called Love – Billie Holiday

Last weekend, one of my roommates fumigated the house. And he killed A LOT OF FLEAS. Thank you.

But last night, while cleaning my room, I picked up approximately 15 dead earwigs that didn’t make it through the fall out. I hate earwigs. I usually call them “pincher butt” bugs. I also found the following:

1. Another one of those wolf spiders that was only about the size of a quarter (including his legs).
2. One weird, mostly dead, unidentifiable brown spider (not a brown recluse).
3. One completely dead, unidentifiable brown spider (possibly a brown recluse, too dead and curled up to tell).
4. 15,000 little stink beetles that you have to squeeze pretty hard in order to terminate their life.

For those who think I am brave, know that it is only a front so that my country roommates, who are already hardened to the onslaught of insects, can’t see through my strong facade that I am indeed, a SISSY.

Plus Winemonkey hates when I ask him to kill bugs for me and again, I don’t want him to think I am some wimpy girl. So I suck it up and do it myself.

You might be sitting there thinking, “Dude, does this girl ever spend a weekend at home? Christ, she is a travelin’ fool!” And you would be right. I am a traveling fool and it does appear that I don’t sit stagnant on weekends. But let me tell you, I certainly wouldn’t sulk over a weekend in my allergy hell, gardening and watching my Netflix movies that I have had for two weeks now!

But alas, my friends have rallied me to camp. They have rallied me to camp with 19 other people! Including CHILDREN! And boats. And a lake. And large quantities and varieties of alcohol. And sunscreen. And bug spray. And god knows what else.

Let’s just hope that everything goes smoothly. I plan on taking my knitting and two books. Along with a blow-up boat, I think I will float away the days. As long as I can take a cooler with me. =)

Yesterday I went to yoga with D at 9 in the morning. My jet lag caught up with me around 10. I met a bunch of people that Des volunteers with and then napped until 4:30pm. After my reposa, we went to this town called Caltagirone, which is a town known for its ceramics. They have been making ceramics from local clay for over 3,000 years (this all started with the Cretins). They have this HUGE staircase that goes up through town and each rise of all 182 steps (I think that it is 182…) have tiles of a different design. We walked to the top of the stairs… and then back down. It was kind of scary, at least for someone who is afraid of heights and is walking on wet stones that slope downward =).

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A while back I posted about the lonely shoe on the side of the road because I was wondering how shoes got there. I recently received this comment (I know the commenter and her co-worker and I know that her co-worker would TOTALLY do this):

My co-worker once told me a story about her daughter sitting in the backseat of the car, complaining about the color of her shoe (or some other “childish” complaint). My co-worker got so pissed off, she grabbed the shoe (while driving), and threw it out the window and said “Well now you won’t have to worry about that will you?”

Dude, I can’t wait to be a mom.

I am working in the lab today. And I realized that it has been so long since I have worked with chemicals that I am actually nervous about it. Crazy, huh?