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Today I did my Excel training and testing, and am now certified for office/clerical jobs. Theoretically.

(It surprised me how much of the program I'd figured out while metaphorically beating it with large sticks trying to make tables and graphs for chemistry lab reports a few years ago. You really DO learn useful things in college... just not always what you're officially listed as learning.)

Then we had the afternoon. Ah, the afternoon...

I bought some large pillar candles the other day, to A) help keep my room warm and B) help keep my room smelling of scented candles rather than unwashed clothes, dust, food residue, and other grotty stuff that builds up over a while. Because of the way my room is set up, one of them has been sitting on the radiator.

Today they turned the heat on.

I was taking a nap, woke up feeling uncomfortably warm, noticed the radiator was now working, and thought, "Oh, that's nice." I went back to sleep.

Of course by the time my alarm went off, the entire pillar candle had melted, dripped down through the radiator coils, and layered itself over a quarter inch thick into my carpet.

*headdesk*

I am, slowly, scraping off the stuff above the carpet. Eventually I will get around to soaking out the rest with boiling water and a lot of paper towels.

At least the wax released a nice smell as it melted.
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Elizabeth Culmer

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