A few updates on how my life is doing

I'm posting this from my parents' house. We're sleeping here again tonight, which will make getting to Hebrew school tomorrow morning that much more interesting, but, oh well. We're planning on moving into one of those "extended stay" hotels tomorrow if we can get it set up. There is one that's fairly near Lis's work, and right near the Y I go to, that takes cats. We also ought to get the cat to a groomer's -- I think getting the soot off of the cat before the cat licks it off is probably wise.

elynne mentioned that, had a fire investigator been downstairs from her, she'd probably have been following him around asking all sorts of questions and generally getting in the way. Well, she and I apparently have that much in common, then. I did do my best to stay out of the way, but I also asked lots of questions, and learned all I could about fire investigation, because it really was just that cool. I won't post TOO many details, 'cause, well, if he makes a determination that one of the appliances caused the fire, or the guy from Keyspan caused the fire, or something like that, MetLife will want to sue the person or company responsible to get THEIR money back. But I got to see how you can see the point of origin of a fire, because the burn mark just make a giant arrow pointing right at it, and he was mentioning that he was dealing with a case right now where DNA evidence was being used, which he though was just so amazingly freakin' cool (he found a lighter at a fire scene, and bagged it for evidence. It's probably, y'know, just a lighter that someone lost, and it probably means nothing, but you don't just IGNORE a lighter at a fire. He sent it out to the lab to see if they could get fingerprints off of it, and then forgot about it. Because this was in Maine, and the entire state of Maine has something like two forensic technicians, so it takes a while. Anyway, a couple days ago, he got a phone call saying that they finally got around to the lighter, and they couldn't get any fingerprints off of it. Which is really what he expected. However, they WERE sequencing the DNA that they got off of the skin cells on the sparker. . . he felt that was just so cool. . . they were doing DNA evidence on a lighter HE sent in!)

I do want to point out that Dave has a Chucky doll -- you know, that doll that in that horror film comes to life and kills people. And I'm pretty sure that BEFORE the fire, the doll was on one chair, and AFTER the fire, the doll was on a different chair. And when we came home today, the doll was upstairs in OUR apartment. I don't think that the investigator has really given sufficient consideration to my Evil Arsonist Doll theory.

Okay, I should sleep. Since I'm not making any real progress on doing class prep. As usual.