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Oh look, I found more words!

I am engaged in writing thank-you notes this morning, especially important when a major portion of the job I interviewed for will be, well, writing thank-you notes. We also have an emergency drill today, and as SAFETY CAPTAIN it is incumbent on me to remind you that if this journal should burst into flames or suffer some other natural or manmade disaster, you should remain calm and proceed to the nearest fanfiction archive or coffee shop and allow trained professionals to handle the situation. If you must keep yourself occupied, I suggest a naughty limerick contest.

I crashed very early last night and thus woke up very early this morning. A couple of days ago I linked to the scariest pepper pot ever (mileage may vary) and twirlynoodle linked me to a BBC featurette about the Hoxne Pepper Pot, complete with downloadable MP3 minidocumentary. I listened to it this morning over breakfast, and it is indeed very informative.

It also, however, contained the following quote:

"The face is silver, but the eyes and the lips are picked out in gold so that as the candlelight flickered, the eyes and the lips would have appeared to move."

AUGH. NO. Those eyes are freaky enough already!

(I have long been terrified of Mesopotamian votive figures, because their eyes freak me the hell out.)

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Coworker Crush: Origami again?
Me: Yeah, I do one a day.
Coworker Crush: What are you folding?
Me: Um. A bear with wings.

AWKWARD PAUSE.

Me: I found it on the internet.
Coworker Crush: Do you know how to fold a gorilla?

AWKWARD PAUSE: PART DEUX.

Me: Not off the top of my head.

The thing is, I'm pretty sure somewhere around step eighteen of the Bear With Wings there should be a note reading "STEP 18A: DO SOME MAGIC" and my magic failed me today. I tried twice to fold that stupid bear and got stuck on step 18 both times.

So I gave up, and went looking for gorilla patterns, because why not? But gorillas are very complicated to fold. So I found a gibbon and folded that instead.

HE'S HANGIN' OUT.

I was going to give him to Coworker Crush but she was in a meeting most of the afternoon and also that's kind of weird. But I did leave him hanging on my calendar in case she sees him as she's leaving.