the middle knitter

Yeah, I'm still alive. School's been rough--you've heard it all before. Spring Break is next week, so maybe I'll find time to post some. The couple projects I've found time for (read: tore time away from the gaping maw of the homework abyss for), I haven't had time to photograph. But I did find these pictures on my memory stick, and I thought I'd share.

This is from the bathroom of an Amtrak train--I think it was the Capitol Limited, but that was a while ago now. Every time I go to the bathroom on the train, I see that sign and think, "I have GOT to post a picture of that on my blog," because the little janitor looks exactly like the devil.

Maybe having the devil threaten you works, because the train bathrooms are surprisingly clean. Most of the time. I still hate touching anything in them, because they feel like a cross between an outhouse and an airport restroom. Ick. But, the soap is good. It smells like cherries.

And yes, they are always that horrible seventies olive. Except when they're a horrible seventies mustard. Or, if you're really lucky, horrible seventies orange. Poor Amtrak--sometimes I want to give it a hug.

I also got this picture (part of my fascination with graffiti):

I'm trying to figure out whether it was written all by one person, or by two people. The handwriting on the "Wook" looks different than the handwriting on the "ies". But, it would make more sense if somebody had written, "Woo," and some nerd had seen it and turned it into "Wookies". Only, it wouldn't have been a very good nerd, because they misspelled Wookiees.

(Also, the Wookiees' home planet is Kashyyyk, spelled with three Ys. It has to be a bitch transliterating that language.)

I've concluded that it's probably more likely that it was all one person, but that scratching into enamel with some primitive tool could change the handwriting halfway through.

Wow. Sci-fi obscurity AND amateur epigraphy. This post is totally a twofer on the geekiness front.

I'm on Spring break visiting my friend Mary in DC. Today we went to the zoo! I love zoos!

I want to share all the pictures I took, and there are a whole bunch, so I'm going to put most of them behind a cut.

These are Asian Small-clawed Otters. I love otters. They're the best thing to see at the zoo, because they do lots of interesting things. (Second best is meerkats.)

Behind the cut: meerkats, elephants, tamarins, and more! (Um, and not a stitch of knitting. Sorry guys--I'll post some up soon.)

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