Australopithecus Afarensis

I saw Lucy today! It was fascinating. Her skeleton was in a dark room with a uniformed armed Houston Police officer seated mere feet away. I don't blame the museum for putting him there as these bones are completely irreplaceable. I felt so incredibly lucky to be able to go on my lunch hour just a mile away to the science museum to see Lucy, and for free too since I had won the tickets on the radio! I am also now fascinated a little with Ethiopia. It sounds like a very cool place to visit!

Wild, wacky weekend coming up. Tonight S will go pick up the baby while I go fit in a couple of hours at Job #2, then on to an event this evening that my father and the Right Reverend Laszlo Murdock Esq.--who may or may not actually be the same person--is throwing. From the press release:

It is a benefit; the tickets are $10 and you will get to see films on the subject of sin and salvation, redemption, armageddon, etc. This is a lot of entertainment for $10 and you will be able to tell all of your friends that you are a supporter of local independent filmmaking.
The Right Reverend Laszlo Murdock, Esq. will be one of the featured Masters of Ceremony for the night's events.
I know that many of you have been asking about the recent activities of the Right Reverend and he will make a rare personal appearance to answer for himself. He has been traveling the world spreading the good news of the gospel and of course taking side bets with his good friend, associate and bookie, Stinky. He recently made ecumenical history by meeting with the Pope, and on the same day he was seen bicycling around St. Peter's Square with a couple of 'nuns'. He has also been seen in Las Vegas shooting craps with the Dalai Lama. He is also in pre-production on a documentary film about his life starring La Llorona, the Cucoy and the Chupacabra, all three of them in a carpool.

Tomorrow I am very excited as the whole family almost will be trekking down to Galveston for an outdoor chirren's festival at which the great Brave Combo will be playing--2 sets! Sunday will find us doing the church thing, then doing the church picnic/kite flying thing after that. We even have a personal invitation from the youth pastor who is also our neighbor.

Finally, I am going to spend some time figuring out how I can scrape together some $ to send to one of my most beloved musicians of modern times, Chris Gaffney, in his time of need.