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Dogs are weird. When we lived in Providence, she would never eat when left at home alone. If she didn't eat before we left in the morning, she wouldn't eat until we got home. When it came to dinner, she had to have her food brought over next to the table and would only eat when we were also eating. She's still a rather picky eater. We can feed her in the morning, sit around with her, and she's not interested in food. If I come back during the morning and spend some time with her, sometimes she'll eat, but mostly she won't. Often, she won't eat "breakfast" until almost 3 p.m.
Today, I came home around 9:45 and her dish was empty, so I figured Lauren hadn't fed her before leaving for classes, a suspicion which seemed confirmed when she gobbled down the food I put in front of her. Turns out, she'd already gobbled down a bowl of food, so she had her usual daily ration of food by 10 a.m. this morning, when usually she won't eat a thing until the afternoon. Like I said, dogs are weird.
At lunch today, one of our friends smugly informed us that his duty for the weekend was to be on-call driver. Nine times out of ten, this means a weekend of doing nothing, as the on-call driver only has to take kids to the emergency room, which is pretty rare.
We decided that the proper response to this was to convince a particularly suggestible freshman that he might have appendicitis. How hard could it be, after noticing that "you look pale," to convince a hypochondriac kid that he might have a twinge in his abdomen? Especially when checking for rebound pain with a sharp jab?
Of course, we didn't actually do that. The student in question went home for the weekend. But would it have made us bad people if we'd done it? Well, probably yes, but funny, funny bad people.
I have a request to make, dear readers. I'm trying to compile a list of songs that fit a certain criteria, namely beginning with prominent use of vocal harmony--preferably only vocal harmony. I'm aiming for popular music of the past 40 years or so, so I don't need to have an Renaissance choral music suggested, thank you very much. As examples, here are some of the songs I came up with:
"Seven Bridges Road" by The Eagles
"Carry on Wayward Son" by Kansas
"Renegade" by Styx
and roughly half the catalog of Queen, including but not limited to:
"Bohemian Rhapsody"
"Fat Bottomed Girls"
"Bicycle Race"
and maybe even "Somebody to Love," though it's under-girded by piano.
Any ideas?