While I’ve been MIA I have picked up some crafting again. The other night I spent several hours making a bouquet of kitschy flowers out of patterned scrapbooking paper. Later I sewed together a plush owl out of crafting felt and filled it with catnip. The kitties are very appreciative. Tonight I’m finishing up a knitted hat, my first finished knitted item in months and months.
I blame these people.
In other news I have to wear a costume to work tomorrow because I’m competitive and want to win a contest, any contest, except that my two costume choices are uninspired (and thus I am also entering the chili cook-off). Basically I have half of each costume ready but am missing essential pieces from each.
The big question: nerd or convict?
UPDATE: I totally won the chili cook-off, and my chili was gone by noon. Didn’t even get a bowl. Does anyone want to buy my winnings, an Emerilware Steamer for $50? Retails at $100.
Also, I went as convict. I woke up late and an orange jumpsuit seemed so much easier than taping my glasses.
I don’t know.
A nerd may have more props — fake thick glasses with tape in the middle, pocket protector, graphing calc., etc. What’s a convict have - cuffs and striped (or orange) suit?
We demand pictures.
Go as Earl from “My Name is Earl” tv show, who coincidently is a convict on the show right now. Think of the mustache…
Be a hacker who invented a computer virus, then you can combine both.
I totally won the chili cook-off.
Congrats!
I have been thinking about steaming things. If you have trouble getting it off your hands, let me know. The timing of my ability to take it off your hands may depend on my roommate’s ability to pay the rent this month.
I went as a lipid, which is a molecule you find in cell membranes and fatty acids. They have a polar (charges are distributed unevenly throughout the molecule) head and a non-polar (electrically neutral everywhere) hydrocarbon chain. I made the polar head by making two penguins and a polar bear from Yamaha Papercraft and gluing them to a bunch of cotton balls strapped to a headband. The hydrocarbon chain was a paper chain with pictures of oil and sugar and C_-H_ lewis dot diagrams.
A room full of scientists, and it took 5 of them 10 minutes to figure it out. A lot of people thought I was “global warming.”