Do canons with established romantic relationships lend themselves more to AUs because otherwise you don't have the opportunity to write the how-they-met story, the how-they-got-together story? I mean, yeah. Many canons have the how-the-characters-met story in canon. But why, for example, are there a ton of Glee AUs for Kurt and Blaine but not ( Read more... )

So how many people at work would I confuse if I were to send out the renaming matrix of old-version-docs/new-version-docs under the subject line "New Doc Titles (the 'Once-a-Chicken-Now-a-Fish' Remix)"?

So, as an explanation for why I had to run out and pick up lunch yesterday before the company-sponsored lunch (during a Day of Many Meetings), I said, "I keep kosher." And everyone seemed to perfectly understand what I meant. This is not an uncommon occurrence. It wasn't until today, however, that it occurred to me that it is a phrase that elides a ( Read more... )

Why does my Cedar's-brand hummus have two hechsherim (kosher certifications) (for the curious, one from the K-VH and one from the Star-K)?

-- I'm done with my leave and am now back at work, so expect to see me online at least slightly more often ( Read more... )

As I eat my lunch, I ponder. And thus, I poll:

Poll There is this thing, it's like talking except you don't talk

Recently, lcmlc asked me how I knew chanaleh, and I had to think a minute to realize that I met her, in fact, through lucretia_borgia about 10 years ago (if not more). And it made me think about some of the other friends that I have that I could've met any number of ways and the friends I have that I originally met because they were friends of friends ( Read more... )

I have come, somewhat unexpectedly, into a carton of heavy cream (AKA protosplorp). I don't have the time or energy to make anything overly ambitious for Shabbat this week. Do I just make it into splorp, figuring I can find *something* that requires splorp, or do I make something else out of it?

Is there any functional difference between a commissary and a mess hall?

Is age 40 too young to be writing an autobiography? I mean, if you're a world leader and have been so from age 12 or whatever, sure, go ahead and write an autobiography. But 40? That seems a bit young to me.

(Not that by any means that'll stop me from buying the book, mind you. Just a ponderance.)