Full on southern potluck, bring fried chicken.

YES!!!! It is the BEST when someone brings fried chicken to a potluck! Wait...is there Popeye's out there? There is, right?

Liese, I know you said online, but you should come to Boston!!!

I always bring baking to potlucks.

Though it occurs to me that potlucks in San Francisco might not suffer from the problem of not enough vegetarian food.

You probably wouldn't be surprised that no one has offered to bring a meat dish thus far.

One night I had friends over for dinner and made them take home the rest of the Chocolate Chip cookies. My friend A took them to where he worked, where the bosses were vegan, and a lot of people had complicated gluten/meat/sugar free diets, and put a sign beside them, "Contains BUTTER and GLUTEN and SUGAR." He said they were gone before lunch.

"Contains BUTTER and GLUTEN and SUGAR." He said they were gone before lunch.

Maybe there were 1 or 2 people who could eat all of that and had the best day EVER.

Popeyes chicken was the starring main dish at my friend's birthday potluck. She was so happy someone remembered.

Y'all, I think this storm will kill us. Salt truck WITH PLOW has already been down my street THICE. It's gotta be a sign of the apocalypse.

Wait...is there Popeye's out there? There is, right?

There is.

A friend of a friend came out to visit SF and refused to eat anywhere else.

Maybe there were 1 or 2 people who could eat all of that and had the best day EVER.

Hee. I think A. said a bunch of people were chowing down on them who he was pretty sure said they didn't eat gluten. Maybe they regretted it later.

It's like that French book (titled e) that does not include the letter e.

Tep, we paused at an entire gluten free bakery stand and thought of you. (And uh, bought treats at the other bakery.)

But I also feel like I'm failing at being a good aunt because after a few hours of my nephew I want to hide

Isn't that the whole point of auntery?

Liese, I know you said online, but you should come to Boston!!!

Well, I haven't actually gone public with this, but I just registered to complete my degree with their inaugural online songwriting major. If I get all my transfer and prior learning credits that I hope to, I would finish a year from the end of this semester.

So...I might be in Boston to walk if I graduate, in May 2017.

In non-potluck/snowpocalypse news, a semi-theoretical question. I intend to be moved into an apartment by the end of the year (this may involve a dumpster and getting rid of stuff I'd rather not, but this will happen). I found an apartment complex that is in the best location, but it's No Pets. I've been reluctant to get a cat right off anyway, but I'm reluctant to lock myself out of the possibility. The thing is, I've never had a purely indoor cat, and I'd want to get two so they'd have someone to talk to when I'm at work all day, and I hate the idea of two cats shut up in a smallish apartment all the time. On the other hand, having someone/thing to talk to that isn't very demanding is very pleasant.

So, cats in apartments, do they mind that much? (Now that I write it all out, it may just be a better idea to live in an apartment for a couple of years and revisit the cat issue when I look at the possibility of going to a condo.)