more miscellany than you can fit into a barrel of monkeys

My boss is going to Norway in May, and as such, she's been practicing her Norwegian. This, of course, means that I get to pick up a phrase or two in a great nordic tongue. This morning, after a meeting, my boss walked away and I said, "Tahk for yelpin" which apparently is kind of close to "takk for hjalp," which, in Norwegian means (take a guess) "Thanks for helping."

My favorite Norwegian word so far? "Lunch." Go ahead, guess what it means.
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Similarly, I think that people from Iowa should be called "Iowegian."
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When you brush your teeth, do you start in the same quadrant of your mouth every time? Yeah, me, too. I start on the lower left. I noticed this, though, and decided to make a conscious effort to start on the upper right. Toothpaste drool came pouring down my face and I was so discombobulated I almost fell down. Try it. It was like trying to stick my elbow in my ear (while walking, whistling and chewing gum at the same time).
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Fernando has recently taken to calling me "Gata" or "Gatita" or, this morning, "Gata Pequena." I'm not sure why, but I dig it.
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I went to the psychic again while I was in Boston, and something really creepy happened. She was laying out my cards and said a lot of stuff about "men in my life" (which I thought was a bit of a stretch, since I'm not really seeing anybody at the moment, thus making it hard to classify people as "men in my life") but two thirds of the way through the reading, she told me I was going to meet a man in uniform. Nothing special there, except that it's EXACTLY WHAT THE OTHER PSYCHIC TOLD ME LAST TIME! Creepy. She told me I'd meet him by August, and when I told her I had heard of him before, and that the other psychic told me to stay away from him, she flipped another card -- the devil card -- and said, "Oh yeah, stay away from him."
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