And again, with the amusement....

During a conversation with a friend on AIM tonight, she asked me:

dev_chieftain: ...wonder where that slang came from. o_o Goody Two shoes.
Dev: ....do baddies only wear one shoe?
Dev: have they got a fascination with the removal of footwear? is that how you can tell?
Dev: like with vampires stealing people's left sock?

The world is a bizarre place, indeed.

My mother removed my wet laundry from the washer today and heaped it on top of the dryer.

I'd generally consider this rude, but I'm a mooch in her household, and I was at work all day, having started my laundry before I left. So the stuff in the washer was fair game (although I wish my dryer-clothing would meet a similar fate when left that way--preferably neatly folded).

HOWEVER.

Apparently, the urgent laundry she had to put in the washing machine consisted of:

1 pair of socks
1 small hand towel.

WTFBBQ???

I love my mom, when she's not driving me crazy.

Meanwhile, the zoo today was fun. My boss is the automatically-patronizing sort who treats everyone as though he thinks they're idiots--even when I'm fairly sure he knows we're not--but another of my superiors in the research department is JRO, my old partner in crime from Waterfowl. Walking in the back gate today and having lunch with JRO felt more than a little bit like coming home. Today I learned the procedure for running LH assays on elephant serum; I've been left to my own devices to do the new set of samples on Tuesday, so I guess patronization aside, da boss has faith in my abilities... or is willing to give me enough rope to hang myself.

Tomorrow at work, we are going to strip.

...bamboo, that is.