and a little bit of tender mercy

i had planned today to watch somebody get obliterated in their oral, but when i arrived, i discovered that they'd begun it ten minutes early, so i couldn't go in and watch. it was very unfair, and i was angry and sulked for quite some period of time over it. this probably means that i am a horrible person, but i very much wanted to see mr. goldfarb and company shoot this senior down. he did utterly unforgivable things to the english language in his paper. mercifully, it was also really short. but still!

but it was not to be. so i kicked a trashcan, and then i had a milkshake and i felt better, and then i acquired a lithops, which greg has named Darnielle. Darnielle joins our rapidly growing menagerie of succulents. Franklin The Aloe is presently growing at an alarming rate. if he continues to sprout successive new franklinettes, i really am not sure what i will do with them all. we are in the desert, it's true, but it's damn cold and rainy for a desert. outside is probably not a viable option. pretty soon we are going to need a bigger house for all these succulents, or at least a house with a windowsill, since right now they are all living on our pantry shelf, clustered between the olive oil and the Cock Sauce, the only place where there is plenty of sunlight and no threat of destruction wreaked by cat.

eventually, we might be able to make a house out of Franklins, i guess.

in addition to the succulents, we have an italian stone pine named Phyllis. i think i may have killed Phyllis with excessive watering and/or sunlight. this is part of the reason i am coming to be so fond of succulents: they are very hard to kill.