Your call. If you'd like to go out of town, I can make other arrangements. I think I have enough brain back to make plans either way.

It's definitely when the priest says "The Lord be with you" -- possibly there's something specific you're supposed to say when passing the peace, but that's more ad hoc, IME.

I think it was fairly recent, since I remember hearing about it and being horrified.

Yeah, I think it was, too, but I know the last time I went to Mass with any regularity was 20 years ago, so.

I don't even remember hearing that line, but, probably more like 30 years for me, so I'll defer.

I am pretty sure it changed between Christmas 2011 and Christmas 2012.

I think that's "Peace be with you", Jesse, but that's a really old memory I'm accessing and trying to reverse engineer (I know I have the automatic "and also with you" response that is now defunct, but I'm not entirely certain what it is to, because those weren't my lines)

Heh. I could play the ignorant Protestant card and just go with "Thanks, you too!" and a big cheesy grin.

There should be a missel you can follow along with!

Is anyone else watching House Hunters right now? This woman looks like a Kristen Wiig character.

There's an Australia one with a Scottish woman who wants to be a model -- and is trying to pose seductively in every single shot. It's bananas. That one?

Can I just say, I love that Ylvis song like the next guy, but the reason it sounds so good is it's produced by the same people who produce number 1 singles for a living. It's not exactly a giant stroke of luck that this this caught fire and was made by the same producers of Firework and every Rihanna hit.

Do you mean the fox thing?

Today was a pretty good day - I drove to Little Rock and spent much of the afternoon at the Arkansas Arts Center looking at a bunch of Gainsborough paintings, a Frans Hals, a Turner, and a number of Rembrandts including this beauty, saw about 2/3 of Much Ado About Nothing (the projector bulb exploded just as the film started, and by the third breakdown I'd had enough and asked for a voucher, but it was OK as the movie was mainly a timekiller), and then had a wonderful meal here that included the only really good saganaki I've had in the last 9 years.

I'm in Stowe VT, accompanying my friend to her timeshare for the week. Bucolic as hell, and the rain seems to be giving way to patches of blue in the cloudy sky. Life is sucking a little less at the moment.