Ahhhhh! Good one.

The only Pandora channel I've remotely enjoyed this much is the "Carry On Wayward Son" which indeed feels like a brief Dean tutorial. I'm getting my second MJ song, and repeatedly it's told me I like "extensive vamping"--what's that?

Also, I'm so East Coast+selected Tupac. Can't beat California Love, IMO, unless it's Montell Jordan. Well, and anything off "Off The Wall". And BBD. Boyz II Men.

New Edition isn't bad, either.

If anyone wants to make their own not-a-ninja-turtle-but-has-kick cookie recipe: [link]

So that didn't work out as well as one would hope. I guess they taste good and look OK, but I just did buttercream frosting and the kitchen was too hot, and bleh. Whatever -- I can't even go to the potluck anyway!

No opinions on the butterscotch chips? Oatsmeal and butterscotch--both Scottish things, right?

I love that combination.

Poetry memorized...

Glory be to God for dappled things
For skies of couple colour as a brinded cow
For rose moles all in stipple upon trout that swim....
Fresh fire-coal chestnut falls, finches wings
Landscape plotted and pieced - fold, fallow and plow
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim

All things counter, original, spare, strange
Whatever is fickle, freckled - who knows how?
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change
Praise him

Did Bobby Brown introduce "prerogative" to much of a nation? I can't help thinking so.

One of my former roomies and I had our eye on the same guy, and I snagged him first, and once we were listening to music, and we both chanted "Strange relationships really get me down" at the same time and looked at each other gravely serious.

It makes me laugh 25 years later.

I say yes to oatmeal and butterscotch cookies. Yum.

I had to record the game and am only in the first quarter. It's already both bizarre and disheartening.

Hematocrit isn't the same as red blood cell count, though. I know because my count is okay but my hematocrit is low. It's percent volume, and it could be high because you have more red blood cells or because you have less plasma.

-t, do you want spoilers? I mean, general mood spoilers?

My anxiety dream last night was an Instacart one, where I was attempting to follow shrift around the store to see how she did it, only to keep losing her.

I would never ditch you if we were at the store together!

Oh, and perhaps I should clarify re: Exodus - I kinda want to see it, but not enough to pay for my own ticket or make room in my schedule so having it be the movie I am technically getting paid to go see it on the big screen is probably for the best. And it's already given me the opportunity to say "Oh, come on, Moses and Batman are practically the same character" to a co-worker, and that was fun.

-t, do you want spoilers? I mean, general mood spoilers?

I don't know? I'm not against them if you want to say something, certainly but I am not decisive enough to actually ask for any.