I don’t remember the last time I was this disappointed by a movie.

I don’t think I can even finish the series now.

Throwing a psychic into the mix does not make the movie X-File-y. Why was it so disjointed? Why were they living together? All was forgiven?? And why was it so religious??

What the fuck.

“Our Feces.”

When the weather warmed up a few months ago cyclists, drivers, walkers, and shoppers near the Wabash Landing started to smell something that could only be described as “shitty”. Turns out the city’s wastewater treatment plant is right next to the shopping district, next to the community park, next to the pedestrian walking bridge.

In an effort to decrease the amount of overflow entering the Mighty Wabash River they drained raw sewage into an above-ground holding pool. The hot air consequently heated up the sewage and GROSS we would all smell wafts of human shit whenever we drove over the (main) bridge to the other side of town, or when we got out of our cars to go eat at a nearby restaurant. YUM, let me tell ya.

Out of curiosity we’d ask students what they thought was causing the smell. Most blamed it on the Wabash, and true, the poor river doesn’t have the best of reputations^[1], but a rare few actually knew about the wastewater plant.

Apparently enough residents complained to the city:

The city of West Lafayette is hoping to freshen the air around its wastewater treatment plant.

Utility Manger Dave Henderson said he is looking purchasing [sic] a product called “Planet Breeze”^[2] which will neutralize the odor inside the lagoon at the treatment plant. Many West Lafayette residents complained about the smell after the city drained raw sewage into an open lagoon to renovate its sewage digesters.

In June a vanilla scented “air freshener” was installed at the plant to help mask the smell coming from the plant^[3]. Henderson said this option should neutralize the odor instead of just masking it. [Source]

Well thank god they’re not going to just “mask it” again.

“Hi! Welcome to West Lafayette, Indiana—home of Purdue University! Don’t mind our shit!”

1. I don’t know anyone who will swim in it, or eat the fish [↩]
2. Try not to have a seizure when viewing their website [↩]
3. Just in time for the Taste of Tippecanoe festival [↩]

X-Files: I Want To Believe comes out today and guess who’ll be front and center for it? OH YEAH. I saw the trailer at the theater a few weeks back and almost lost it from the excitement.

I’ve been trying to catch up with the television series, but I ended up only making it to the second disc of season seven. There are two more seasons where I have no idea what happened, but I’m rationalizing it’s okay because those seasons have that other guy instead of Duchovny and who wants to watch that?

In doing project research for a client, I came across a website for Allan Gray, who was running for city council. His website URL is voteallangray.com, which cracked me up because I read it as VOTE-ALL-ANGRAY.

I don’t know about y’all, but I always vote all angry.

I totally took a break from posting—without warning. I hope you’ve mused in your head over what I’ve been doing otherwise.

Was I doing…

1. Housework — because there is no such thing as ‘too clean’
2. Writing my memoir — you should read all I’ve experienced at the age of twenty-seven!
3. Lounging about — it’s been so hot lately
4. Designing websites — there’s a lull in work and then all of a sudden WHAM! you’ve got clients
5. Embroidering greeting cards — combining my love of embroidery with my love of office supplies? DANGER!
6. Cutting my hair — on my own
7. Learning the true meaning of CrackBerry — QWERTY how I love thee
8. Knitting — those three storage containers of yarn ain’t gonna knit and purl themselves
9. Reviewing and editing photos from our vacation — and all the other events since
10. Hob-knobbing with local bigwigs — I am getting CONNECTED!

Consider this a quiz.