1. Spilled black beans on pants
2. Mystery stains (foreign deposits) on shirt and neck (of all places)
3. Due to lack of caffeine to keep me alert on Tuesday, asked co-worker if that day "[was] a day of the week"
4. Scared Gypsy and Haskell by sharpening a pencil in my automatic pencil sharpener
5. Accidentally set off Deals' home alarm system when I left her house. Police came.
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I'm so sorry about the beans on your pants. But you knew that would happen, right?
And that's my new favorite phrase, btw. "Oh, is today a day of the week?"
Not a good week. Next week will be better.
And not to be gross, but 'foreign deposits'?
Youch. Sounds like a bad week to me.
Hope this week is better!
Miss you!
JLR: yes, it's a conversation starter, I can tell you that. Or a conversation stopper. It's versatile.
Emma: Oh, ha ha, I should have explained. It's used in the museum world when describing the condition of an object. When you see stains of some sort on an object, and it looks like it has something with it, you know, like something might have dried on it, and you can't identify the unknown substance, you label it a "foreign deposit." Or at least, that's how I use the phrase. It can be something as harmless as a piece of food that fell onto an object and dried there and is not recognizable to the museum employee describing the condition of the object fifty years after the crumb fell onto said object. Basically, you could said it is anything foreign to the object in question that has deposited itself onto said object. I'm sorry about the needlessly long explanation.
For other interesting museum terms, ask JLR about frass.
Miss you too, Am!
I don't want to talk about FRASS! I'm trying to drink my coffee here.
[j/k. I looooove to talk about frass, but only because the word is fun to say. I do not like to encounter frass, though.
You should almost combine #4 and #5, since the only reason the alarm went off was because you left GK and H INSIDE!! Haha! You crack me up.
P.S. I have an unknown deposit on my white shirt. This is the second time in 4 days that I've had such a problem (i.e. "frass" on white shirts). It does alarm me, however, that the current stain might have been a result of being rained on a couple of hours ago. (Haha. “Frass”. I love that word.)
P.S. Did you ask me if "Today" was a day of the week? Because I have a vague recollection that you did, but maybe it's only because you told me the story.
P.S. My brain hurts (and, yes, I STILL hate the world).
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