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For My 25th Birthday (June 2nd), I received...

by HijabMan :: posted 4 June 07

1. I hate vacuuming, so I got myself a roomba (a robotic vacuum cleaner), and it’s currently vacuuming under the coffee table. See video of a roomba in action here.

2. I used to have 6 alarm clocks as a first year undergraduate student. When living with my sister, I had the loudest digital alarm clock. I got used to them so fast, that the alarm clocks would end up buzzing, and I’d wake up hours later. So this year, since I’m going to be taking classes again, my sister and brother-in-law got me an alarm clock named “Clocky” that jumps off the table and runs away when you hit the snooze button. It also beeps randomly for its alarm. Check it out here.

3. After a long, exhausting weekend that consisted of being the photographer for a wedding on Friday, the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour on Saturday, and lunch with my parents on Friday, I came into work this morning dragging my feet. The only thing I was looking forward to was the usual cake that comes along with a birthday celebration at the office. So i was sitting at my desk around 3 PM, thinking, “hmm, where’s my cake?!” when my boss came up to me and said someone was there to see me. All of a sudden a guy in a pink monkey suit jumped out with a big batch of balloons, started singing, threw confetti on me and my desk, and handed me a banana while my co-workers sang happy birthday. While this was happening my co-worker is taking pictures and my boss is videotaping the whole thing. Then I ask the monkey if he’ll pick me up, and he replies, “I’ll pass” as we pose for photos.

The video should be up in a couple days.

Best. Gift. Ever.

Bonus Father-Son Moment:

Dad (obviously messing around): “So, HijabMan, would you marry a Djinn?”

Me: “Dad, I would, but I wouldn’t know where to put my hands..
On the bright side, though, my friend Aly says that since they’d be an ethnic minority, they’d be eligible for benefits awarded to them through affirmative action, and they’d get great half-human, half-Djinn scholarships to various top universities…”

Dad: *Chuckles

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