Yeah, the recipe I'm using makes a cheese somewhere in the neighborhood of paneer, or farmer cheese, or queso fresco. It's basically milk + buttermilk + heat + pressure + time.

Oooh, bookmarked! Thank you thank you!

Butter is crazy easy. Just whip cream. A LOT. Alternatively: put cream into a jar. Engage a couple 5-year-olds to shake it for you, a lot.

Ooooh that looks crazy good. I'm adding ricotta to my to-try list.

I have had a hankering to make my own cheese for a while (I can already do yogurt and bread pretty well). A few months ago I picked up Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything, and randomly flipped to his section dairy, and learned how easy it is to make soft cheese at home.

Oooh, I hope it does catch on. That'd make my friend's life much easier.

People: much nicer about these things than banks.

I have a college friend named Jason Biggs who is, oddly enough, Nepali. It's hard for me to hear stories about the actor Jason Biggs without thinking of my friend. My Jason is a much cooler dude. And not racist.

Posted below that I have all of the feelings. Add about 10 more. I applied for a personal loan through [Prosper.com] (think crowd-sourced lending) to pay for a Very Important Trip. I wasn't expecting it to get funded because even though my credit has vastly improved over the past few years, it ain't great. But not 4…

Happy, charismatic, outspoken, outgoing. I'm an outgoing introvert, so...sort of? I am pretty happy with my life in general though so there's that.

When I'm on the treadmill and the people around me talk on the phone/sing/grunt/are generally rude, I fart all over the damn place. Sometimes I'll even "accidentally" crash into their phone arm. But then again I'm a jerk and I don't like to be social at the gym.

MEE TOO. Especially because I just applied for a loan to help pay for a Very Important Trip later this summer (who has two thumbs and no credit card? This girl!) and obviously a job is very important to loan people.

Only if you do it right. And most people don't.

So yesterday at work I found out that about a month ago I accidentally misallocated about $15,000 (to be fair, no laws or contracts were broken). I freely admit that this was my mistake and mine alone. I thought I was going to be fired, or at the very least given a letter of reprimand. Today I wasn't fired, and it…

For inheritance? Because the federal benefits to being married mean it's significantly easier and cheaper to live as a married person than as a single person? For insurance?

I drive a Kia Spectra. Four-banger, fairly small (14.5-gallon tank). It's slightly larger than my last car, which I regret a little bit. If I could afford one, I'd buy a Smart Car. I don't need anything big.

So if every person in the plural marriage kept a separate domicile, it'd be legit? That sounds like a terrible way to keep a family together. I can't believe I'm about to say this but...won't someone think of the children?

My sister wants a wife to do all the chores and the kid-raising so she can run her business. But the wife isn't allowed to have sex with either my sister or brother-in-law so that seems like kind of a crappy deal.

I would really, really have to rethink my personal choices regarding relationship structure...

I wish I had the time and energy to make my hair look half so pretty as anyone in that picture.