Girls' Night

Last night... oh, dear -- shall I say I was still up at midnight but went to bed very early?
My friend BD is leaving Tuesday so MS hosted a slumber party in her honor. There were eight of us crazy ladies gathered in her rather small abode. We laughed, cracked jokes, and ate pavlova (which thankfully had nothing to do with salivating dogs). We collaborated on a short and stupid story (suffice to say that it was intended to be nonsense and it was).
It went something like this:
"It was a dusty, windy day in central Azerbaijan. The ladies of the Takasz Women's Auxiliary were narrowly dismissed from their biweekly gossip guild when a chisel-faced man on a foaming, white steed slid to a stop in front of the village artesian well. The ladies stopped mid-sentence and scurried to the square..." and proceeded to speak of a lady with kiwis and an umbrella, etc.

We went to bed by perhaps 2 am, I don't remember, and I drifted in and out to the sound of a couple of my friends' voices. Then I came fully to around perhaps 3 am and engaged in a conversation before finally procuring a few precious hours of shut-eye. I left before the others stirred, and was therefore devoid of an opportunity to eat that Australian delicacy, Vegemite. I hear it's good, but have never tasted it and therefore the concept of a brewer's yeast-based substance does not appeal to me.

This morning I attended a farrier short-course sponsored by the American Farrier's Association and American Association for Equine Practitioners. I saw a really good presentation of foot anatomy and mechanics. Hopefully I will get in on a bit of the lab after work.