Remember when I asked you to save August 2nd for our anniversary party? Well, unsave it. I forgot that I'll be reading for the Bar Exam (someone else is taking it; I'm just reading it) that day, so I'm not free to party. Sorry!

Stay up late: Check
Sleep in: Check
Shop for food: Check
Put chicken soup on to cook: Check
Put food in the oven for dinner: Check

Still to do:

Finish chicken soup and take some to aquenigmatic
Make cole slaw to go with the pulled-pork sandwiches for dinner
Clean the kitchen
Have a talk with the kid about school and chores
Get some magazine work done (cover artist, if you don't send me a byline by next weekend, you're gonna be "anonymous". ;-)
RELAX and read my books
Play some music and get "Desert Moon" out of my head

So I'm sitting here waiting for the chicken soup to be done, catching up with DW and Usenet, and suddenly I hear this loud clicking sound. I look around and can't figure out what it is, so I go back to my goofing off. And the sound comes again. It's irregular, and MUCH louder than the little click that lets me know the oven is switching on and off. A few minutes later, it's driving me crazy, so I ask someotherguy to help me investigate the sound. He looks around for a while and solves the mystery.

Spartacus is *hiccuping*.

The guinea pig has the hiccups, probably brought on by the massive quantities of raw carrot he just ate, and it's freakin' hilarious.