thoughts on a thursday morning

[auntiemeesh]

My eyes are super dry and gritty this morning. Fourth night in a row that I haven't slept well and I can feel my patience slipping a little. I'm kind of glad it's a gloomy, rainy morning. I don't think I'd be able to handle any sort of aggressive sunshine right now. But I've got coffee and a snuggly sweatshirt, so I'll live.

I've been trying to come up with a halloween costume but the creative side of my brain seems to have gone on vacation. I sort of want to do an android. The World's First Intelligent Android, run on Microsoft's innovative new Windows Sapiens operating system. I've got a bunch of old electronics I could scavenge to make a 'hidden' control panel somewhere on me that could pop open. There's a lot I could do with it, but it seems to lack the flair for 'mad science run amok' which is the theme for the party. If I was a bolder, more outgoing and socially capable person, I could run amok through the party, making hilarious social blunders on purpose and then spouting all sorts of ridiculous error codes and then just randomly freezing in place until someone rebooted me. It would be so much fun, if only I were the sort of person who could do that. I may do it anyway, since I can't think of doing anything else, other than a generic Mad Scientist.

Comments

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't worry, I'm pretty excellent on the social blunder side of things. It's making it clear I'm doing it on purpose, not just being my usual clueless spazz, that's the hard part.

[ani-no-mouse.livejournal.com]

I'd think the robot costume and random error messages would be a clue. In fact, I might start wearing one to all social occasions just to make it look like I was trying to be blunderous instead of just succeeding at it!
(A couple of weeks ago I got a message from the Ole Miss yearbook saying they wanted to interview/photograph me because I have a reputation as a "quirky" professor. Imagine how self-confident that made me feel! In fact, they begged me to allow them to take a photo of me demonstrating the toddling/falling of a typical 12 month old. Good thing I've never seen the Ole Miss yearbook and don't expect to see this one!)

[wbkbb.livejournal.com]

Well, I always liked my quirky professors the best. Much more interesting than the rest of them. Take it as a compliment!