The weird thing is that it's what Southerners of ALL races eat on New Year's Day. It's got black-eyed peas and a few other ingredients and is supposed to be for luck. My very, very white family eats it.

Incorrect.

I read an article in the Guardian or something that said the reason Christmas dinner hasn't changed much is because it doesn't happen that often. There have been 41,496 "regular" dinners since 1900.

What makes you think that's too cold to run safely? Have you ever been to the Twin Cities?

Some of the longest-lasting, healthiest relationships I know of started with "poaching." It was the one and only time the individuals in question behaved that way. Sometimes you just know.

I learned the same way.

I only share things to SO's wall when I'm out of town for work, and it's something I think his friends would appreciate too.

30 years is a lot of virus generations. Evolution happens quickly for microorganisms. While the two options right now seem to be "freak out" or "it's no big deal," the truth definitely lies somewhere in the middle and it's better to be cautious.

I don't think we fully understand how it's spread, to be perfectly honest. They only just realized that doctors were highly at risk when taking off their protective gear. If you've got any chance of having it, I don't think you can be too careful. And a mandatory quarantine period for health workers who return from…

Exactly. I feel like half the media is overreacting and half is being far too cavalier about this disease. It does spread A LOT easier than HIV. A LOT.

Aww. She's not a Lhasa Apso, is she? Ours is and they are famously bad with kids. He's also half blind and half deaf, so sudden unexpected things are problems for him.

Hell, I leave the house without makeup daily and I am no mom.

My dog is an ASSHOLE (he's sweet to me and my family but was poorly socialized before we found him) and people don't understand that they can't pet him. He's painfully cute, so it almost makes them angry.

If it's on private property, not necessarily, because of how property law works in the United States. But on public lands, as part of contract archaeology or academic archaeology? Not just "arrowheads" (projectile points) but every single lithic flake/shatter/debitage (whatever you call it) is placed in curation.…

I've had "Old World" archaeologists tell me things like that before, but here in North America we curate every lithic flake and square nail from a pioneer home in perpetuity. It has to do with the way we do very processual, quantitative archaeology (okay, okay, I don't always collect all the bricks).

While I agree with your general premise, there is literally nothing elaborate about this meal. Roast chicken is a VERY simple dinner (it's set-it-and-forget-it), and this is one of the simplest recipes for it. What "resources to prepare and serve this kind of meal" do you refer to? Even the shittiest apartment…

If my SO made me beef bourgignon (possibly my favorite food if made well), he'd probably get more than that.

I do use tupperware for the most part. But if I used a ziploc and will be putting similar items in it the next day, I do just give it a quick rinse and let it dry out. Or I re-use it when I take the dog on a walk...

Since I only eat dinner at home, and I live in a two-person household, I do not use them for more than one meal, and it's still few enough to fit in the wash with the kitchen towels. And hell no I don't iron them - who would iron napkins for their own use? Maybe if I had fancy guests I was trying to impress, but…

You throw them in with the towels.