You know how sometimes the back of the refrigerator gets too cold and ice builds up and sticks things to the inner walls? It's not a common problem, I suppose, if you keep an eye on what's in there. But sometimes that one bottle of something that you don't use very often gets forgotten and constantly pushed against the back wall. That's what happened in my refrigerator over the last few months (since the antibiotic overdose incident in February). I had noticed that it was getting a bit icy back there a few weeks ago, but I honestly didn't know what to do with the anti-diarrhea medicine that was clinging to the back wall: Do I throw it out? Give it to a friend? Save it for later? Can that stuff go bad??Yesterday, as I was waiting for my dinner to cook, I realized that the bottle of elixir, still in the box, was not only stuck to the wall, but actually it was beginning to take up too much space because of all the ice that was growing around it. By the look of it, I thought the stuff had frozen and broken the bottle, which was a really interesting scenario in my imagination, so I immediately took a spoon to chip it off. It came off with little difficulty- probably the hardest part was suppressing my giggles so I wouldn't disturb my housemate who was watching an important hockey game in the attached living room. The lower of the two pictures is what I removed from the fridge. The upper picture is from after I thawed it enough to tear off the wet box and find that the bottle hadn't shattered and the liquid inside was still liquid (the above picture). A bit disappointing...
And something completely unrelated:
I saw a tiger, a zebra, 2 llamas, 2 little ponies, a camel with 2 bumps, and a man poking at a lion with a stick (all completely REAL and ALIVE), as I rode the bus to the grocery store this morning! It was all part of the traveling circus that's in Bratislava now. Something that might cause public outcry in some American cities: The only thing that kept these animals separated from the onlooking families were the two layers of temporary fencing! (That is, as far as I could see from the bus window.) I really don't like circuses (for reasons that I won't list here, but if you know me well then you can probably correctly guess that my opinion has almost nothing to do with animals being kept in small cages), but there is something really cool having my morning thoughts interrupted by seeing big animals on the side of the road :) Sorry I don't have pictures!
