WHEE! just found out some things I have to sell are worth more than double what I thought. Must get listed tonight.

I cleared one pile off my desk. I guess I should start on those contracts.

So you know how I was raving about nonfat Greek yogurt the other day (specifically, Fage)? My lunch deli started stocking more and more brands of the stuff. There's like five brands of nonfat Greek-style yogurt. Today, for the first time, I noticed they had nonfat Icelandic style yogurt. I have no idea what the Icelandic people are doing, but man is this good yogurt. It's practically cheesecake. So, yay, destruction of the Dannon/Yoplait crappy runny yogurt hegemony!

There is no Greek yogurt in Rochester! t counds so good!

shrift, you're totally not a moron. Last live concert I went to, I think I confirmed the camera policy three different times.

Thanks. It's just that every venue is different, and I don't think it's unreasonable to check on policies when it's supposed to snow and I could be sitting at home watching Torchwood.

I am realizing that there's probably no such thing as Icelandic-style yogurt, and it's a canny marketing ploy by a local dairy that realizes there's a segment of the populace that's looking for something snootier, fancier, more exotic and less peasanty than the really similar Greek-style. But it tastes real nice!

Leaving marketing aside, I cannot recommend the thick yogurt enough. Given that it's nonfat, I try to use it with anything that would normally take cream. Last night we made a flank steak and served it with a sauce of horseradish and yogurt (among some other things) and it was fucking great. Maybe later this week I'll make creamed spinach.

I also got some drink I never heard of before-- it claims to be fizzy, mango-flavored water (because water is healthful!), with a paragraph-long mission statement of healthiness and coolness on the label, but really it just tastes like Orange Crush. I am possibly too status-conscious at the deli.

Wouldn't Icelandic-style yogurt be made with like yak's milk or something? I mean, old-school style Icelandic.

Maybe reindeer milk?

I have emailed the yogurt company and asked if anyone here sells their yogurt.

bon, you crack me up.

also, again last night mac claimed that the whole world was his something, but I now can't remember what it was.

cute mac statement of the week, for an art project at school: "I want to be president so I can make all of the rules."

Here is how much I don't want to do my work anymore: The arctic fox was apparently the only mammal native to Iceland, but people brought in Reindeer, and mice and mink and whatnot. [link]

Iceland does not, to my knowledge, have any yaks. Or reindeer, for that matter. I believe the island has no native large fauna, so if there is anybody besides humans giving milk in all of Iceland, it is good old-fashioned cows, originally imported from Norway/Sweden/Scotland.