news and the lowest common denominator

So, a Monday news quiz. First, look at the following photograph from CNN.com.
( The Photo )

( Now for your tricky quiz question )

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The weather was quintessential New England Gloomy today, with near-constant chilly drizzle punctuated by occasional downpours, and no more light coming through the miserable sky than one would expect if one were buried at the bottom of a thirty-foot-deep pit of old gym socks.

Yesterday was sunny and very nice, though, and saw the first flower of the year:


It did not show its face again today, but who can blame it? Maybe by the next sunny day (which may not be this week) it'll have friends for company.

warning: gross, with overshare

Everybody has a creepy bathroom, somewhere, sometime, that they've encountered. In my daily life, this'd be the women's room on the 8th floor of the building I work in. There's only one bathroom per floor, and they alternate irregularly between men's and women's. The floor my office is on has a men's room, so if I want to use one, I either have to go up one flight to 11 or down two flights to 8. Since I spend a lot of time on the 7th floor, it seems sorta natural to just stop briefly at 8 on my way up or down the stairs. However, it's a creepy bathroom. By which I mean it is both disgusting and attracts disgusting people. For example:

1) someone (or several someones) on that floor are "sprinklers"
2) once, from the stall next to me, I heard typing. I know it's called a "laptop", but...
( 3) yucky enough that it's behind a cut for your protection )

4) even worse and nastier things (I know, hard to believe) which I've mostly blotted out.

Anyhow, I totally avoid that bathroom like the plague, except today when I was leaving work and in a hurry and it was far more expedient to hit the 8th floor and then catch an elevator the rest of the way down. And, since it's a photo kind of day, this is what I saw when I got there:



I didn't even go in. And I'm never ever ever ever going to that bathroom again. Ewwwwwwwwwww....

Just remember that pic next time you think we state workers have it cushy.