a million canadian dollars?

so this is something we were talking about the other night, and the song just came up on iTunes, so i was thinking of it again.

if the guy had a million dollars, he says, he'd buy the girl:

• a house
  
• some furniture (chesterfield or ottoman)
  
• K-car
  
• her love (x3)
  
• tree fort in yard
  
• little tiny fridge
  • which will be filled with pre-wrapped sausages, etc.
• fur coat (fake)
  
• exotic pet (llama or emu)
  
• John Merrick's remains
  
• limousine and driver (for trips to the store)
  
• lots of Kraft dinners
  • and fancy "dijon" ketchups
• green dress (also fake)
  
• some art (picasso or garfunkel)
  
• a monkey

now, correct me if i'm wrong, but all that stuff is going to run into more money than just a million dollars, yeah?  i mean, more than a million US dollars, so for sure more than U$850K.

maybe what he means is that he'll buy her one item from the list.  or that if he had a million dollars, he'd invest wisely and after some appropriate interval would be in a position to provide this inventory.

juggling, juggling -- keeping it in the air

so okay.  thursday was, as we saw, a complete loss, and friday nearly so; but between friday and saturday and sunday i've pretty much put together a thursday, if you see what i mean.  i've done in the pieces of those three days what i intended to do on thursday, so i could meet with my supervisor on friday, and now we're meeting tomorrow, so, good.

it may work out that i don't need to reapply from scratch for the DPhil after all.  it may work out that i shouldn't, in fact.  there are financial considerations on both sides, but i need to talk to some people and work out what the consequences could be three moves from now before i close any doors.  if i can do this thing with one form instead of a whole giant application, so much the better.

got this week's mailing out to the college on schedule.  huzzah.

am only going very slightly insane.

[thinks about making an 'insane' icon with a pinwheel in the left-eye space; goes back to work instead]