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Tuesday, November 11, 2003

housecleaning and related microscope thoughts

I have been feeling really un-diary-ish for the past couple of days. My keys never turned up and we're buying new ones. I went on a cleaning fest yesterday (yes, my house is so bad that realizing that people are coming over for Thanksgiving in two weeks was enough to send me into a cleaning panic) -- the kids and I cleaned their rooms and washed windows and windowsills and cleaned off the MOUNTAIN of stuff on our counter -- mostly T's stuff. Today I have a lot more cleaning ahead of me. It just never ends.

On a somewhat-related note, did you know that if you make espresso and then forget to take the grounds out and leave them in the machine for, oh, about a month or two (honestly, I do not even remember the last time I made espresso, and they'd been there since then), you get a lot of very interesting-looking powdery black mold in and on your little espresso grounds filter thing? It made me wish I had a microscope, honestly; we are finally getting one "for school" (and for my curious mind which always wants to see things magnified; even the torn edge of masking tape looks very interesting under a microscope, did you know that? me, a nerd?) but it hasn't arrived yet, and the interesting mold sample is already multiplying merrily on its way to the local wastewater treatment facility. Oh well, when you clean out your refrigerator as infrequently as I do you know you'll come across more mold eventually. ;-)

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