I suddenly need to go get goat cheese, figs, and prosciutto. But I am also trying to rein in our food bill.

Raq - how's Mal doing today?

He's okay. He definitely has the swine flu, which is making me think R does as well (and I know they both had flu shots). Mal's daycare called yesterday afternoon to say that they have a confirmed case of the swine flu, so I would guess that's where Mal got except for the fact that R got sick first.

But of course R teaches big classes full of people coming in from all over the world.

Anyway, this means that we aren't going to the daycare graduation today (I don't even know that they are going to have it). It also means that R and I celebrated our 18th anniversary yesterday with Gatorade and saltines.

But when Mal's no longer contagious and can be babysat, we're going to have dinner here: [link]

(back to food porn...English Toffee Pudding Cheesecake...)

Oh Raq, that's terrible. Hope your family feels well soon.

I'm still hungover. It sucks. Blech.

I introduced my brother to MCR.

Oh Raq, man. Much ~~ma to you to keeping the family hydrated and getting better!!

Quick recovery ~ma to Mal and R. {{{Raq}}}

Thanks - I worry about Mal because of his asthma; I don't want the H1N1 to turn into pneumonia. Fortunately I'd already taken leave for today to attend the graduation.

I'm supposed to be going to the Blog Potomac conference tomorrow, but may skip that.

{{{Raq and Mal}}} I hope the little guy is feeling better soon.

aw, Raq, so sorry about R and Mal being sick. Hope they're both better soon.

On the brighter side - and to help with any lingering pain from the cat food posts - this is for Hec.

Aw, man, Raq, that's rough. Getting better ~ma for R and Mal and getting through it ~ma for you.

Poor Mal and R.! They don't need to be afflicted. No afflictions. Didn't you suffer a plague of boils a couple years ago? Did R. steal the third-eye gem from some lost, ancient and surly idol?

(((Mal)))

Poor wee scone!

askye, I can't believe the rudeness and unkindness of your cow-irker. She can fuck right off.

Once in a while the plot holes in Leverage are a little too much for me. I think that was the case with "Two Horse Job" and it's becoming so with "Miracle".

...I think that, in order to best appreciate Leverage, you have to think of it as The A Team, viewed through Ocean's Eleven- coloured lenses. Because that's what it is. So if you're not coming to it with expectations of, you know, logic and reality, but rather with expectations of swashbuckling heisty goodness, then it is love. imho. ymmv.

Sean, after your goat's cheese & fig & ham recipe, I am left baffled by your singledom. Baffled. I think you should just post the recipe on your OK Cupid profile. And I'm more or less serious.

I heart Nostalgia Girl, but not as much as I heart Labyrinth.

It struck me, briefly, that perhaps Twilight is just the modern version of Labyrinth, glitter and all, and I felt a bit bad about hating on it. But then I concluded that was bollocks, because Sarah is Dorothy Gale a hero with a quest and some rites of passage, and she isn't defined solely in relation to the object of her UST; whereas Bella Swan is a useless cypher whose only purpose is to find twu wuv (and who's quite happy to have Captain Sparklypants murder her, if that's what he needs from her). Also, Twilight is shit.

t /opinionated