(SJ addendum: [deleted] [deleted] [deleted])M.R., SJ, Chana, D2, and I were out in the kitchen talking. D2 was at the kitchen table on her computer. The conversation went like this:
(Erachet addendum: Stop interrupting my post, SJ! You're ruining it!)
Erachet: So...what's happening tomorrow?Later on in the evening, I was in the middle of working on this very post when D2 suddenly piped up with:
SJ: Um, it's reading week.
Erachet: I know that. I mean, what are people doing?
D2: You want to see what I'm doing tomorrow, Erachet? [She puts her arm around my waist and gently drags me over to her computer] Here, come, I'll show you what I'm doing.
[On the screen, there is a youtube video of a cat being dissected. D2 presses play]
M.R.: Don't look, Erachet! Hide your eyes!
Erachet: Wha--NO WAY, D2 EW EW EW! I am going to the other side of the table!
SJ: Now our apartment's going to smell like formaldehyde again.
D2: Erachet? When do you think they last lynched people?A little while later:
Erachet: Er...I don't know?
D2: No, really. If you had to guess.
Erachet: Ummmm, I...really couldn't guess.
D2: Come on, guess.
Erachet: Uh...after the Nuremberg Trials?
[SJ walks into the room]
D2: SJ, when was the last time they hanged people as punishment?
SJ: Well, Sadam Hussein was hanged.
Erachet: Oh, that's right!
D2: Okay, the last time in America.
SJ: Um, don't they just use lethal injection?
D2: But I think I remember people being hanged! I'm going to look it up.
Erachet: Why... are you interested in this?
SJ: D2's planning out her future life of crime!
Erachet: Yeah, but hanging?
D2: Come on, don't you ever get interested in things?!
D2: [Reading off her computer] "Only the states of Washington and New Hampshire still retain hanging as an option." Isn't that crazy?!Other D2 quotes of the night:
1. So I was telling my friend how in genetics lab we made menorahs out of bacteria, which we did. And my friend said, you know, I really don't like being around giddy people. And I said, I'm not giddy!As you can see, we've got quite a gem of an apartment mate here in Stern. But, in all seriousness, we love her. And if we were actually playing Gamad v'Anak (secret Chanuka buddy) in our apartment and if D2 was my person, this post would certainly serve as a gift to her!* But in any case, now D2 has a post in dedication to her that is completely lishma, and hey, she deserves it!
[Erachet: Menorahs out of bacteria?! Sounds pretty giddy to me!]
2. Time to metaphorically roast the proverbial duck.
[You're not supposed to get it. There's nothing to get. D2 doesn't get it either. The only way to get it is to understand that it is not supposed to be gotten. Got it? So now you get it. :P]
To SJ, Chana, M.R., and the Apple -I love you guys, too! Chag sameach to my apartment and chag sameach to the entire JBlogosphere.
Now everyone go eat a jelly doughnut!
*But we are not playing Gamad v'Anak, so of course D2 is not my person, nor is she anyone's person.
2 comments:
For the record, it's not exactly making menorahs out of bacteria. It's using colored bacteria to draw a menorah on the petri dish (or, more specifically, on the growth medium in the petri dish). It's fun. I used to have pictures of my bacteria menorah on my old phone from back when I took genetics.
I read this post and thought of my husband. I showed him the part about lynching when your roommate say "...don't you ever get interested in things" and he agreed that it was so him. He has many interests and gets interested in many things and will research them.
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