Foo, my neighbors movie date cancelled on account of work and "my pants don't fit! Must go work out!" Ah well, got in early to the pool and have pretty much gotten all my chores for the night done.

I may have a few, lemme get on the phone with my friend Cynthia. Kara may know people. I mean heavens knows her circle is wide enough. Krissie may as well since she was in the business, I'm just not sure if all her contacts would be in Belle Chasse or not.

Nora, want I should see if my friends have any contacts? It's a much longer shot than DJ's friends, but I can check.

Aw, Buffistas! Thanks guys, any contacts would be wonderful. At this point, I'll be compiling a list for when I know more what's going on...

Hey Nora, have you gotten to the FAQ that Carol wrote for her French Laundry blog?

Ooh, not yet. Ima check it out now. Yay! She's so hilarious and awesome.

And I just got a message from Krissie I told her to send to you

Is it wrong that I like green-can cheese better than real Parmesan for most things I use it for?

Aargh, I just had a blood pressure-raising phone call. Don't talk to me like I'm wrong when you are the one who is wrong and I have documentation to back me up.

Do you deal with our Web host, too? Just today they sat there and insisted that we didn't send them 5 articles, when the proof (aka, those 5 articles) were still sitting on their FTP server in the folder that they told us to use. AND -- this is my favorite part -- 1 of the 5 articles is actually online, which I think roundly disproves the "you didn't send it to us" argument.

Big fat lying liars who lie.

a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.

Dude, sign me up! Perverted science!

Perverted science involves a LOT of nitrile gloves and test tubes in new places.

Why did the guy one cube over say "Up yours, Batman."? That's not polite. Batman's gonna kick his ass.

Is it New Guy? Because he seems like the kind of crazy fool who would taunt Batman.

Is it wrong that I like green-can cheese better than real Parmesan for most things I use it for?

I love the texture of green-can cheese when I put it on a salad like a Caesar. LOVE.

In my house we call green-can cheese "sprinkle cheese." This to differentiate it from "orange cheese," which is Kroger-brand cheddar. (I have my own, nice cheddar which is not orange, but the kids don't like it.)

y'all, I fear my house is not going to be ready for this person to come look at it on Sat. I have taken 2 loads of stuff down to storage, stuff that was sitting around on the floor (shelves and framed pictures and whatnot that no longer are up on the walls), but I could easily take triple that and then still need to find places for a bunch of clutter.

This to differentiate it from "orange cheese," which is Kroger-brand cheddar.

Orange powdered cheese product in the can? Or chunk cheddar?

I deeply, deeply, DEEPLY love the orange powdered cheese product in the can and will, more often then not, eschew marinara sauce to top my pasta with powdered orange cheese product and butter.

Because, when I was a wee tot, I hated tomato sauce -- I wouldn't even eat pizza because of it. And so when my mom made spaghetti, in order to get me to eat it, she'd top it with that canned powdered cheese food product, on the grounds that it was similar to macaroni and cheese, which I loved. And it worked and I ate it.

So now it's this total Proustian comfort food for me, but the thing is, it's really hard to find that canned powdered orange cheese food product, so whenever I'm at the one store that carries it, I'll buy 4 cans. Because if I run out, there is hell to pay.

I do, these days, love a good tomato-based sauce, and will happily eat same. But there's something about the canned powdered orange stuff that makes me so happy.

I just had some nice pasta, and the good cheese was too melty or something. Also, I need to get the green-can cheese to put with butter on pita and broil. Delicious! And once referred to by my grandfather (possibly before I was born) as "those cardboard things," so that how I always think of them.