It all happened so fast. 
Well, people. The miraculous has occurred. I haz halogen light bulbz.
I woke up this morning in a Bad Mood. Going to Home Depot is not my idea of Good Times. But it had to be done. I went through my apartment and removed all the fixtures, removed all the bulbs and wrapped them gently in a piece of tissue, and then violently tossed the tissue into my purse followed by my iPhone, my blackberry, and a couple of heavy rocks, daring the bulbs to break in my purse and perhaps cut my finger and give me one more reason to hate them with everything i am.
After I had removed all of the bulbs, I surveyed my bulb collection. I noticed that each fixture required a different size of bulb. “What is this sorcery!?!” I thought to myself. Actually, I didn’t think that. What I thought was, “What the fuck!?!?”
Anyway. Long story longer, I went to Home Depot. And then went to another Home Depot. And 60 dollars and eleventy hours later, I had purchased all the bulbs I needed.
My apartment is 99.9% halogen light bulbs. Does that make me elitist?
The Great Light Bulb Crisis of 2008 has thus ended. And with that, I leave you with a few old school light bulb-related jokes. Being an Oberlin graduate, I can attest to the veracity of the second joke.
Jokes after the jump.
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