The greatest thing I've ever heard

"So since I had some extra money I decided to spend a little more on groceries. Instead of buying just rice and a red pepper--that's not even a joke; that's usually what I subsist on--I splurged and bought eighty-pence-worth of milk and some tomato soup. It was a BFD."
-- Rachel Leonard, foreign correspondent to the stars

Seriously, I will blog it right off of you.

Clearly I have the "blog" now, which I will use to keep you, my dear readers, "updated" on my "happenings". FIRST AND FOREMOST I am an uncle! My sister babied it this past Thursday, and the result of her having babied it is my new niece!

Upon seeing her, the family understandably had our--shall we say--curiosities, so we forwarded her information to the National Institutes of Health, and they verified for us that she is in fact objectively the cutest human.* My sister and the baby are both doing well, and I should be able to visit them over Thanksgiving, so w00t to that.

In other news!

• Mindy is visiting me at school this weekend. Hurrah!
• I regret to inform you, dear readers, that Taj, the Indian place we discovered only too late last semester, has been shut down for health code violations. I find this upsetting for multiple reasons, foremost among which is WHERE WILL WE GET OUR SAMOSAS?
• Coinciding with the arrival of snow and winds which are themselves a strong statement of the Problem of Evil, South Bend was recently named "Third-Coldest Location in the United States". Positions one and two went to Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska, and Shauna Williams's heart, respectively.
  

*Some exclusions apply. See Liberal Lover for details.