Tales of the Absentminded

Yesterday at the end of Orchestra 2001's rehearsal, as people were leaving, someone noticed a cell phone sitting on the floor next to a music stand. It was next to a water bottle and breath mints, and there was still a score and pencil on the stand, so we figured whoever it belonged to was just in the bathroom. But ten minutes later when almost everyone had left everything was untouched. ( Then the phone rang. )

He's not the only brain-impaired person. Just now I made myself some hot cocoa and decided to make it minty. Altoids would take too long to dissolve so I put in a drop of peppermint oil. I remarked to Noda that it was neat how when I put it in the lighter-colored layer of foam rushed away from it, leaving a large darker circle. Then I took a sip, not having realized that I'd been observing a phenomenon called 'oil floats on water', and what I sipped was almost entirely the peppermint. Whoooo, is that a way to clear your sinuses! Took ten minutes to get that taste to subside in my mouth, but once I'd stirred the cocoa it was actually pretty good. :^)