(option b only available to some students. — Which students? — oh, you know which ones.)

I really dislike "C-suite" titles in academia—we have our own names for these roles. If a school eschews those in favor of sounding like a private equity firm, then that tells me a lot about, if not what kind of an organization they're trying to be, then at least who they're trying to impress.

Hahaha oh no, can’t we just have Werewolf Bar Mitzvah For Babies instead

I have no doubt he is! Like many, many good writers before him, he seems to have grievously underestimated the difficulty of writing a fully-rhymed children’s book, and no one in his orbit was willing to say Chris buddy could we bring in the ghost poet for a final edit

This book RHYMES, to give you an idea of how dire it is. We read it immediately after reading a Dr. Seuss book, and it was like listening to Mozart symphony and then listening to a symphony composed by a lungfish

How was I supposed to know it was THAT “Chris Pine”? Anybody could be named that!

Good illustrations by a solid pro, of course

My weird rebellion against this is that I often try not to even look up call numbers for things I'm going into the stacks to get, so that I really have to browse a bit in order to find anything. It's usually the highlight of my day when I do this. (Feasible in my discipline, maybe not in yours.)

14 years is (I have recently learned) a great run for a 21st-century fridge. And that's also what I heard about Samsung kitchen appliances when we had to fridge-shop this year.

I think I need to experiment with how jiggly in the middle is too jiggly. It always seems to look like a lake with a skin on top. But maybe that's what jiggly in the middle actually means? And I should be more trusting that it will get more set after it's out.

By contrast, this "Basque" pumpkin cheesecake behaved precisely as indicated and will probably taste better to boot

I tented the crust w/ foil during the 20 excess minutes of baking time, which rescued it from being *unacceptably* dark, but I should absolutely get one of those shields. I wonder if I'm being too squeamish about how liquidy the middle looks at the point where I should really just take it out.

Meanwhile my crust is in there getting more and more done, and if it's a single shade darker than golden brown, my family will reject it like a baby bird that has fallen from the nest

Mainstream pop!

My 5-year-old's contribution has been to repeatedly ask why I haven't done Puzzle 0 yet. I haven't gotten that far, buddy!!

Most perfect (and weird) little literary delight of the year for me was this novella (I read it in a two-hour sitting and read it again a couple of weeks later)