The Word of the Day: Free

Today was my last day of work! woohoo!!!

I am FREE of work! (only for a week)
I am FREE of counting calories! (it got hard)
I got FREE lunch! (as always)
I played FREE pinball! (first time)
I played FREE DDR! (first time)
I got a FREE book! (The Mythical Man-Month from my manager)
I ate FREE candy! (first time)
I will get FREE software! (they'll ship me Workstation)

To Turn Orange???

Supposedly, if you eat a lot of carrots (beta carotene), your skin turns orange!! The condition is called carotenemia. Should I try it? =) I do have some issues/concerns:

- Is it safe? Most sites say it's harmless, but 1 source said a woman died from it. =/
- I don't know how long it will take to lose the skin color change. Some sites say days, some say weeks, and some say months. As cool as being orange is, I don't wanna be orange for months.
- I don't know how long it takes to get orange either.
- I can't find a good picture of what it looks like. Google images failed me! This is a problem, because many sites say you turn orange OR yellow. I'm already yellow, so I wanna turn orange!!
- It seems it's easier/more common for young babies. Is it gonna be harder for me?

Anyone know about any of this? Should I try to turn orange? hahaha!!! =)

Confused...

Here are a couple random things that I am confused about:

a) My roommate has 2 cartons of milk in the fridge and they are both half full. They are the same type of milk, and have the same expiration date. Why did he open and use half of both?

b) My roommate sings at the strangest hours (5am, 7am).

c) My boss seems like a really smart guy, but he just recently had a baby, and he still smokes.

d) There seems to be a lot of oatmeal raisin cookies in the world, but very few oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. (I'm actually gonna try to do something about this one)