Today

[lawnrrd]

Today is packing, organizing, and otherwise getting ready to move next Saturday. The movers themselves will be doing the bulk of the packing, but we are putting most stuff in storage, which means we have to set aside the stuff that goes to the new apartment.

We keep an umbrella stand outside the door to our apartment. Somehow it got moved from the place where it has rested for three years. This revealed a large pile of dust containing a mouse skeleton. I don't want to think about what that implies.

Last night we saw Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, which was riotously funny. I recommend it. After the movie I went to pucette's wedding after-party.

Meanwhile, the floodgates of the heavens have just opened and the thunder and the lightning and the downpours of doom. So it's back to packing.

Comments

[rosemarymint.livejournal.com]

I can give you some live mice (or fresh dead, however you prefer). They contain the skeleton though it would require some excavation work

Lemme know

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[starkyld.livejournal.com]

nah, s'okay. i'm no good at skeletonising corpses. i just thought i'd ask in case there happened to be a suitable and available one. if i get a serious jonesing for anatomical displays, i can just go down to evolution in soho to buy one (or swipe one from the lab in my department...kidding! just kidding! really!).

[lawnrrd]

When my physical anthropologist friend needed a corpse skeletonized, she went to her department's "beetle bin." I always thought it best to ask as few questions as possible about that bin, but maybe someone on campus could help you out.

[rosemarymint.livejournal.com]

That sounds similar to how some shellers clean their haul.

Generally it involves a hole in the ground and a few weeks.

[starkyld.livejournal.com]

we don't have a beetle bin. we boil our bones down instead.