I was leaving for work

I was leaving for work this morning and kept feeling like I was forgetting something. But it was an off morning, as I had switched purses and had a little shopping bag jammed full of party outfit for tonight, so I brushed it off. Which is so bad! Never brush off that feeling that you forgot something! The least you can do is acknowledge it to others in the room because then you can spread the blame around when it later turns out you did forget lots of things. I didn’t bother to voice my lingering feeling until I was nestled into a subway seat next to J, well on my way to work. No sooner had the words left my mouth then I realized I had forgotten not one, but TWO of the holy trinity of things I’m supposed to quadruple check I don’t leave the apartment without: reading glasses and cell phone (the other is keys). Deciding that I really couldn’t go the whole day squinting at the computer and calling my voicemail, I had to turn around and head home. It’s always so weird to wander through your neighborhood at a time when you’re never there. You get assaulted by lots of questions like, where are all these people going? Why do they start work so late? Why is that smartly dressed woman with a purse dragging a city garbage can down the sidewalk?

Last night we got to watch Project Runway and see Abby’s pictures from her trip to Taiwan. She also let us draw from a grab bag of goodies and I walked away with a little triangular pencil case that says “Rice Balls” and pictures two dancing rice balls (triangles?). In fact, now that I look at it closer, the two ends of the pencil case are also anthropomorphized rice balls, one laughing, one winking. Heeey! Even though I believe strongly that anthropomorphized food is Wrong and a Poor Marketing Tool and also Lazy and Unimaginative, these guys are pretty cute. They are so bubblingly sweet and cartoonish that they don’t really count all that much as food. Plus, they’re basically triangles with smiles. Also okay: panda-shaped fishballs.

You should go check out Abby’s pics, which include images of a Taiwanese Monopoly game where instead of properties there are countries. And instead of labeling them correctly in English, they just labeled a bunch of them “Syria.”

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