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Papoose!

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As you may remember, Kamran’s landlady installed a murphy bed in his apartment over Christmas break, and we’ve been heartily enjoying it ever since. The landlady’s last name is Dicker, which makes for lots of hi-LAR-ious “Dicker? I hardly know ‘er!” jokes. And we’re also strangely amused by a sticker on the frame of the bed that says, “ST DICKER,” which we interpret to mean “St. Dicker” and can repeat to each other for minutes at a time.

But even better is that the murphy bed has allowed us what we call The Pillow Corner. The bed frame has a panel that runs parallel to the sleeper, and since the head of the mattress is against a wall, there’s this lovely place where the wall meets the panel and forms a corner, which we pile high with pillows and snuggle into. Kamran says that he sleeps in The Pillow Corner when I’m not there.

Of course, he also says that he fits pillows with my pajamas and cuddles them when I’m not there. Creepy or romantic? You decide.

And while we’re on the subject of beds, you can vote creepy or romantic on this, which is the photo that resulted from my wrapping Kamran in a papoose made of blankets on his birthday:

I seriously don’t think this relationship is abnormal at all.

Totally Non-Obvious

Filed under creepy boyfriend obsession, jobby jobby job job, narcissism

One of my main functions in our office is to generate license keys for the software we make. This requires absolutely no technical knowledge nor any sort of awareness of the product, which is why they let a girl do it. My co-worker Jack IMed me today and reminded me why I’m so pleased to have surrounded myself with geeks:

Co-Worker Jack: Jian just called you “our license key generator” to a client.
Me: Sexy!
Co-Worker Jack: Haha. I thought you’d like that.
Me: I enjoy that I sound like a robot.
Co-Worker Jack: Yeah, you are KATIE–Key Autonomous Turbine Initiative Engine.
Me: Wow! I’m going to start signing my e-mails that way.
Co-Worker Jack: That would be awesome, especially since it took me a while to figure out what to use for the i in your name.
Me: I appreciate the effort. I’ll make all of my e-mails look like automated replies.

Excited about my new title, I IMed my patent lawyer boyfriend to brag:

Kamran: Sounds like the title of a patent.
me: Indeed.
Kamran: We should patent you!
me: I’m useful.
Kamran: And inventive. Totally non-obvious.
me: You’re so sweet.

It’s okay if this is only clever to me.