Awww. (Please tell me you had the sense to put it in recycling and not schlepp it to the new house.)

I was going to, but I was so focused on the boxes that I think I set it aside and the cat batted it under the sofa.

I am intrigued by quinoa flakes. What are they for?

I use them to make delicious hot cereal (more like cream of wheat than oatmeal textured)! I'm not sure what else they can be used for except that cookie recipe on the package.

I got them at the Whole Foods where they were shelved with pastas and rices not with hot cereals though.

I love superfoods of the future!

Time Traveler: Everyone In The Future Eats Dippin' Dots

ha! Dippin' Dots!

The only thing that consistently got me out of the house during that time was meeting another unemployed friend for breakfast and some exercise.

Yeah, sadly, my other unemployed friend is too depressed to leave the house often (er...you know her, in fact...), and my breakfast friend went away for the weekend, and hasn't returned my calls yet...

I'm about to leave for work right now. Wish me luck.

Did you remember your flashlight, Scola?

An unalphabetized glossary: stupidest thing in the world? Y/N

Good lord. Y!

You know, if it was a couple of students, I'd think, Wow, serious disturbance going on there, but nine?

Yeah, that's a lot of planning and conspiracy for a messed up group of kids!

She is at a different school now, but is a leading philosopher of moral theory. Her mother is a peace activist and philosopher of ethics and her grandparents are Nobel laureates. Her father was president at Harvard.

Good grief, what a pedigree--I'm impressed she didn't turn out a psycho. Or at least a high school dropout or something.

I would tend to think amoral simply because at 8 or 9 do children have moral standards?

If they're Catholic, they're supposed to ahve passed the age of reason...:)

Time Traveler: Everyone In The Future Eats Dippin' Dots

Their signs always bugged me. If it's the ice cream of hte future, why am I supposed to eat it NOW?

I love quinoa--I just got some RED quinoa from Trader Joes, and am trying ot figure out what would look pretty with it.

but I guess it's flattering?

I was carded at a grocery store buying beer on Sat. This was WITH MAC! seriously? I told the checkout baby that she was sweet, I might have said "bless you" also.

I forgot to tell cute/heartbreaking mac story from last night. He got a note home from school again and then proceeded to be a PITA at afterschool. I was asking him what he thought his consequence might need to be (previous suggestions for punishment have been "take me into the woods and leave me?"), and he said "you could take me back and get a good student." He does not say this sad or pathetically, just matter of fact. I just told my brother via email and he called asking about the "Ethiopian Child Exchange Program." My brother is not ready for prime time.

True story: I was in a mall walking behind two girls who appeared to be about 12. We passed a Dippin' Dots stand, and one said, "It says that Dippin' Dots is the ice cream of the future." The other girl mulled that for a minute and said, "I hope not."

I use them to make delicious hot cereal (more like cream of wheat than oatmeal textured)! I'm not sure what else they can be used for except that cookie recipe on the package.

Huh.

Man, I'm indoctrinated by wheat. All these things to try and add back up to it.

Well, yeah. Kind of the staple and basis of western cookery. (You could move to rural Mongolia! Unless the whole experimenting with rice milk means you also have a milk allergy.) It kind of blows my mind that wheat is one of those foods suddenly becoming more expensive, because, staple food. Those things are staples because they're always available.

"you could take me back and get a good student."

Aw.

ARGH!

I just spent four hours trying to solve a problem that didn't exist!!

Sorry. I just had to vent.