OK. Now I must go buy Passover food, deposit my paychecks and tax refund checks, and figure out where Flat Stanley should visit. (My university refuses to use direct deposit for our checks. So each month, I've got to walk over the pay office building, get my check there, and then walk over to the bank to deposit it. And of course, I never remember until it's the day my rent is due and the office is already closed for the day.)

French toast made with challah is a beautiful thing.

One of the local bakeries does a cinnamon challah on Fridays that makes the best French Toast I've ever made.

Of course, my all-time favorite local bread is the Cherry Chocolate bread from Noe Valley Bakery. Brandied cherries, big chunks of semisweet chocolate in an Italian style bread. Thick slice, run it under the broiler until the chocolate gets melty, slather with butter. Insanely good!

Well, one out of three of the tasks accomplished. I deposited my checks, but the store that I expected to have both Passover food and postcards ended up having neither.

Two guys are on a hunger strike to protest circumcision. [link]

Leading the pack are two 21-year-olds, Jason Siegel and Zachary Levi Balakoff, who are on Day 3 of a hunger strike. They say they won't eat until genital mutilation is exposed. Go ahead, ask them why. They'll tell you, for many minutes, about the "entire realms of exquisite feeling" they are missing by not having foreskins and the corresponding nerves. The "giant monstrosity" of circumcision "envelops" their entire lives.

"If we have to die, then that's what's necessary," Balakoff says. They say they'll sit in front of the Capitol until they starve.

The "giant monstrosity" of circumcision "envelops" their entire lives.

Ummm... well that's too bad then.

We are finally on the road after a slow start this morning.

Am I bad for thinking it would make the great basis for a southwest breakfast bake with lots of crumbled sausage (mmm... chorizo), tons of cheese, and pico de gallo?

Yes, very bad. Because now I am regretting deeply the fact that I did not have this for breakfast this morning.

(And, you know, it's not like South and Central America are entirely devoid of Jews. I don't see adding jalapenos as any different in sentiment than adding cinnamon or raisins.)

The "giant monstrosity" of circumcision "envelops" their entire lives.

The imagery generated by this sentence is...not good. Unless they really mean their audience to picturing giant zombie foreskins stalking the land, in which case, point made.

(And, you know, it's not like South and Central America are entirely devoid of Jews. I don't see adding jalapenos as any different in sentiment than adding cinnamon or raisins.)

True. But cinnamon and raisins are sweet.

I don't see adding jalapenos as any different in sentiment than adding cinnamon or raisins.

Except jalapenos are evil. But so are raisins.

Jalapeño challah sounds kinda gross to me, because I always think of it as being kinda sweet. But with some other bread and adding the cheese and chorizo and stuff sounds great!!

My DH started to make challah when we moved here, because we haven't found the options in DC to be very good

Huh. I feel like there's gotta be a place with good bread--surely somewhere up in Rockville?