the religion that was founded on invisible gold tablets that only one guy could see frowns upon light mindedness?

Yes, it's true. Watching college kids out being college kids comes with an air of uneasiness, because you occasionally catch them with a look of uncertainty. "Are we doing this right? People are staring. Should we stop?"

There are people who can be spontaneous and giddy and delighted in the universe, but the kids who go to Brigham Young University oftentimes come across with a mix of defiance and "check the list, we're supposed to be doing a fun activity tonight and we've got instructions."

Monday evening is Family Home Evening, where the family gets together to socialize and sometimes go over the assigned church lesson. Board games are big. We know not to go to the family restaurants on a Monday evening, because that's a favorite activity. The college students are away from their families, so they get assigned to "family" groups. I don't know if this is still done, but one girl gets assigned to be "mom", ie, arrange the snacks, and one boy is "dad", who leads the lesson. The groups often have an assigned activity, such as a trip to the grocery store together or scavenger hunts. If we went to the grocery store near BYU, there would often be groups out on various quests.

Friday night at the grocery store is "put on your make up in the parking lot with your girl roommates/tidy your hair and your clothes in the parking lot with your boy roommates"--no co-ed roommates at BYU--then go grocery shopping and mingle. Hubby and I would have fun watching The Hunt as they looked each other over.

We did also call them dressers. Although "dresser" might also refer to a vanity. Which also has drawers. Bureau is something I understood but wouldn't say myself. Furniture terminology, not so precise.

Trying to think what the furniture store called them when we bought our bedroom set. Can't recall. I think one piece is a lingerie chest?

I do not know what a highboy is.

Unrelatedly, I think my brain shut down two or three hours ago. I hope I don't have to re-do everything I did this afternoon come Monday. And now I really want some kind of cocktail but finding some way of combining my meager choices of spirit with at least as sparse array of mixers is beyond me.

Also finished the new Incryptid book

Wait, what? There's a new one already?

I have a dresser (short, wide, has 3 sets of 3 drawers), lingerie cabinet (taller, not very wide or deep, has 7 drawers) and an armoir (tallest but not as wide as the dresser, has two drawers at the bottom and cabinet doors at the top).

Cocktail crisis averted: I was able to cobble together something not too far off from a sour. Using an egg white that's been in my freezer for a year and a half. This may be a good use for those frozen egg whites as it gets hotter, very refreshing.

"dresser" or "bureau" were the only terms I knew to call the damn things. CoD was a strange new thing.

Oo! I just had a thought. Chest of drawers = like a chest or a trunk, but with drawers in it.

You can freeze egg whites?!

I think we used dresser and bureau most, but I had always heard chest of drawers, too. In my head, a chest of drawers is one of the tall ones, and a dresser is lower, maybe three big drawers with a mirror over it, but I have no idea why.

I'm trying to pick an appropriate sample of erotic writing in answer to an ad for, you guessed it, erotica writers. But I think fic has really colored my definition of what's mainstream erotic and what's not, though.

Wait, what? There's a new one already?

New as in came out earlier this week? (The last one came out a year ago, but I just read it a few months ago) Yeah. Half-Off Ragnarok.

But I think fic has really colored my definition of what's mainstream erotic and what's not, though.

Given the stuff I've seen...as long as there aren't tentacles, it's mainstream. Furries probably aren't, but werewolves are, so...