At least I checked a few things off my to-do list

[beandelphiki]

Guess who ELSE was sick when I went to work yesterday? The Boss's Daughter! So we all got treated to another installment of the B.D. Show. Little princess she is, and totally convinced she's a tough act.

Christ, I can't even be SICK at work. If she hadn't been sick, she would have undoubtedly gotten her period or something else to moan about.

And then when I got home, I got treated to another princess act from my mother: "Jeez, this cold takes a lot out of you, doesn't it? I had to take a three hour nap to recover from shopping!"

I said, "Yeah, I'm so sympathetic." Hello? I'm sick too, and I just had a 14-hour day, running around town and then working a 7-hour shift. Not all of us can live on spousal support.

Oh, and I forgot my meds at home. It was a great Friday.


SAIT has updated it's washrooms, apparently. The newer buildings have always had (in the time I've been going, anyway) those automatic-flush toilets which flush constantly and spray your bare bottom while you're sitting on them. They've also had automatic faucets which only dispense water if you're wearing the right color underwear. But they've always had hand-pump soap.

Apparently The Powers That Be have decided people can't pump their own soap. So now there's an Autosoap dispenser at every sink, which spit soap into your palm when you hold your hand in front of them. Those seem to work fine.

So if all else fails, you can wash your hands with Autosoap and the fresh spray off your butt.


I finally finished watching Voyage of the Damned. Whoo, Doctor Who tonight! So excited.

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[siegeengine.livejournal.com]

I've always wanted to try a bidet. I think because it sounds so messy, but people use them all over the world, so they really can't be that messy. There must be some trick to it that stops water from spraying all over the place and getting your clothes wet and your shoes, and getting all over the floor, and ricocheting off of your backside and spraying the walls. I just can't imagine how they work.

anyway... that's why I've wanted to try one.

not actually germane, now that I think about it.

Oh! you didn't mention if they have auto paper towels. I kind of enjoy those.

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

I had to look that up - honestly, I had no idea what a bidet was. Now that I do...I think my grandmother's old house in Regina had one of those. Nobody used it though, and they all giggled over its function. Their cat Muffin apparently loved to sleep in it when he was alive.

I'd feel really strange attempting to use one, I think.


Oh, and no - no Autotowel. (Not yet, anyway?) But in the stalls, the toilet paper is all dispensed in individual little sheets. Which, it turns out, is MUCH easier to make a huge mess with than the rolls. Whodathunk? I'm sure they were chosen on the basis of the idea that individual sheets would be much simpler to use; but in actual fact, everyone ends up pulling out way more sheets than necessary (something to do with the way they're overstacked in the dispenser), so the floor is constantly covered in toilet paper.

...The best brains on the planet Earth, and this is what we come up with, really.