tryptophantastic
Great fucking week. Highlights include:
Getting cast in Dark Ride at Open Circle
Going drinking with coworkers, multiple times
Learning to play poker
Learning to flip my car on Grand Theft Auto
Drinking Sugar-free Red Bull, Vodka, Sprite, and Emergen-C TOGETHER
Pillow fights
Successfully making a metric butt-ton of Green Bean Casserole
Jenga
Mancala
Blowing bubbles
Drinking SO MUCH WINE
Watching people play Street Fighter
A $65,000 hand of poker
Zoolander
FINALLY seeing Office Space (Yes, Yuki, it’s true)
Lavender Massage Oil
A surprising first - two days in a row
Being grilled by my mother
Wearing Rebekah’s clothes
Discovering that someone saw me fall on my tailbone going down Olive
Not being able to kick anyone’s ass, because I am jello.
Nerves of steel … sort of.
More later when I’m not gnawing off my own hand from hunger. (I could handle having weeks like this more often.)
But I always thought a butt-ton was an imperial measurement,
No. That’s a buttload.
Nooooo, “Butt-tonne” would be the imperial measure, although I think it might only apply to wine or beer (in Ye Olde English, a Butt was a barrel that held little over 100 gallons of either — about the equivalent of 7 kegs worth. Remember Stephano in “The Tempest” talks about floating to shore on “a butt of sack which the sailors heaved o’erboard”?). This is the sort of useless information you learn whilst making homebrew.
So, while technically it might not be the correct usage with regards to the green bean casserole, it sure would be appropriate for the SO MUCH WINE part of the experience…
Dear benlau,
Congratulations on being able to use your imperial measurement joke. Nevermind the derision of others: I am proud of you.
love,
Ida
Wow, except for being grilled by your mum (mine would probably have broiled me) that WAS a great week!