Mad Cow Disease

I’m up to my ears in prions and the fatal, progressive diseases they cause, one of which is bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Aka: mad cow. It’s pretty great, but the paper is progressing slowly. We’ve also been planning a cow activity for enrichment which is happening tomorrow night and consists of three parts: cash cow, mad cow and holy cow. You can draw your own conclusions from there.

Yeah, I’m a lucky member of the enrichment committee, which is probably one of the worst of all the callings available since there are fifteen people in the committee and still all the work is done by me and one other person. Suck. Pretty much everyone in there is under the impression that they’re “about to be released because (insert crappy excuse here)”. Like, “my knees are bad” or “I’ve been in there for a whole year!” –> Tell that to my husband who’s been in the EQ presidency for four years and they’ve told him they have no plans to release them any time soon. Talk about time-consuming… 

We also get lots of people who “didn’t know” they were in it. “Ok, now you know!” we say. That doesn’t work. “Oh, I will call the president and talk to her, I don’t think I’m supposed to be”… and that’s the last time they answer your phone call. 

Then there’s the worst kind, the kind that say they’ll do things and then fail to do them. That’s worse than blowing me off. If you say no then I can do it. If you say yes intending not to do it, that makes my life unnecessarily complicated because I end up doing it anyway but rushed, badly and super pissed off at you. 

Come to think of it all these people could be considered cows, too. 

Anyway, if it wasn’t for the need to work with all these people I think I would love this calling. As it is, I like it. It’s fun to come up with the ideas and it’s fun when you see people enjoy themselves at something you planned. 

So we have this cow thing, and I have this cow paper, and Styx can now say moo! No doubt due to the complete immersion in all-things bovine. She has a stuffed cow and she plays Eskimo kisses with it. 

Next week should be considerably less cow-ey.