tres amusant

Can you believe this thing still works?

In other news:

Having spent the past three or so days in a marathon to catch up on the assignments I had woefully neglected, I am now up-to-date and even nearly finished with the online coursework, which culminates in a face to face class on the 21st. I love this and hate this. I really enjoy thinking up ways to introduce vocabulary to students. I love making up stuff like classroom vocabulary glossary boxes. But my brain hurts.

Tomorrow Miss Marcy and I are traveling to see a kiln and wheel. She needs me to look at this kiln she wants to buy to see if it is worth purchasing. The kiln will then be used to fire the pottery items she plans to make to raise money for her cat rescue efforts. All the kitties must be vaccinated. Some times they get sick and have to get better before they can go to new homes. The kitties cost a lot of money, but they are way more fun to watch than TV. I think she should give up her cable habit but she didn't ask me. She already makes jewelery so I might try and get her to think of some pendant type thingies we can make and fire. I want them to all look like cats, although I understand there is a limited market for cat stuff. I can make a cat piggie bank. I learned how to make the banks last semester in elem. art methods. My way is going to be different (thinner walls?) but still, they should be cute. I have a fear of selling them on Etsy because how will we efficiently package the suckers to stick in the mail?

I refilled my Lysol hand washing battery operated soap dispenser today using my Cajun Injector turkey syringe. I sucked the soap up in that puppy and squirted it thru the little hole on the bottom of the soap refill dealie. I also added a little water because it dispenses way too much soap. I am not spending a billion dollars buying new pieces of plastic. Hopefully it does not begin to leak. Then I will have to rethink my syringe technique. Other people have drilled a tiny hole in the top and refilled that way, sealing with packing tape. I might need to try that.

Someone was making the argument that the no-touch option is not really practical considering you still have to turn on your sink handles with dirty hands, and then turn off your dirty sink handles with your momentarily clean hands. So are your hands still clean after you turn off your dirty sink handles? I understand the dilemma. I do wash my bathroom sink just about every day, but three different gross little boys use that sink. However, considering they never remember to flush or turn off the light, I doubt my toilet flusher handle is very dirty, or the light switch either. They claim they do wash their hands. I just don't know what to say.

I have noticed the foam dispensers I've been getting, Dial, Equate, whatever, they don't last very long. My theory on keeping the dispenser and buying giant bulk refill sort of fell flat. It is sort of like trying to refill the Clorox Clean-Up spray more than twice. The Clorox seems to eat up the mechanism of the spray bottle, so even if you do try and get the refill and use the spray bottle again and again, you still end up standing on your head trying to get the dang thing to work right.

I mainly got the hand soap dispenser to avoid the multiple pumps going on all day. I think. That has to be why I got it. Because they would pump the soap about a hundred times to get foam to play with in the sink. Foam is the perfect toy for little children. Really I forgot exactly my rationale for buying that thing. Also I had a coupon, so the story is similar to the automatic air freshener dispensers. Which I can't refill, by the way, and smell less than lovely. But it is fun to listen to the family comments coming from the bathroom (centrally located in the apartment) every time someone walks in and is surprised or offended that the air freshener sneezes out some spray at them the second they cross the threshold.