should a grown woman dress up like eeyore for halloween? you decide

Oh my it's slow here tonight. Even the small grease fire in the cafe that forced everyone out of the building for about 15 minutes wasn't enough to make this night at the library exciting. They even sent the big trucks. Thankfully, there is the best-of-craigslist here to keep me company. It's like a rip off of Open Letters on McSweeney's and maybe a dash of Ask Metafilter. Mostly it's just a mildly amusing way to pass the time when one isn't supposed to be reading.

Man, I'm bored.

So the Day of the Dead thing was a raging success. We had about 250 people come through in about 2 hours. We ran out of sugar skulls in 20 minutes. We ran out of chocolate with about 45 minutes to go. And yet no one really seemed to mind. It was quite a moving experience actually. Someone took a ton of pictures which someday I might have access to so when that happens I'll post 'em. Here's the article in the Sentinel about the event. Kari's quoted about the Sister Mary altar which is cool.

And the stove upstairs is gone! Poof! Not really poof more like "kathud kathud kathud kathud kathud kathud kathud and repeat until stove is down the stairs." I have yet to hear if the new one made it in today but when I finally am released from this desk I'll check my messages and see. If that thing makes it in tomorrow or so I'm pretty sure we'll be moving Sunday. Or Saturday night maybe. The 2 big things left are caulking the tub and replacing the light in the toilette room as it is not the starter which is what we had hoped. Now don't panic everyone, but I think I'm actually going to attempt to replace that fixture all by myself. And yes I'll turn off the electricity in order to do it (though I just heard last night that if you want to test if something is live to hit it with the back of your hand instead of your fingers as you will undoubtedly clamp down your fingers thereby shocking the shit outta you. Good tip, I thought). We've decided to hold off on the painting until after we're up there as it really is just the big wall at the top of the stairs and it'll get all scuffed up anyway. The search for cheap chairs and cheap rugs is about to be on.