After my trip to the Bung Hole wine bar yesterday, I figured that I was due for some good news today. Initially, I was disappointed. Returning to work, I discovered that my the grant that my new employer uses to fund my position was revoked while I was gone last week. There's a chance that the funder will be convinced to give it back to them, but I won't know until tomorrow or Thursday. Cool.When I got home from work this evening, there was still no word from either graduate program that I applied to. However, my answering machine did contain the best news possible: Monkey Girl said that Count Mockula had her baby in the wee hours of the morning! Both mom and baby are doing well. (And MG: I can't find your number, so can you email it to me or call me back?) Yay!
My advice to Zadie is to stay away from hippos. Although they look very peaceful lying around in pools of mud, they can suddenly creep up and tip your canoe. Or at the very last, scare the crap out of you with their bad teeth, which makes me think of that hilarious shark from the Strange Wilderness commercial.
Oh, what joy.
ReplyDeleteYeah, hippos look cute, but boy are they MEAN.
Great advice and congratulations to the Count!
ReplyDeleteI have a friend from Botswana, who attended school in South Africa and Swasiland. He is deathly afraid of hippos, evidently as a child a close friend was eaten by one. Proof that they are mean.
ReplyDeleteAlso I still can't help but laugh over that commerical.
You look adorable in this photo.