That sounds good. I ate ALL the pancakes earlier. Okay, the dog ate one. He's having a much worse week than I am, but it's getting better.

Ugh. I hate that kind of weekend but know it well. I'm stuck at home with an injured dog (day 5), and I'm emotionally and physically wiped.

That is awesome. Awesome.

But hanging around being racist has a long tradition among white people!

Sending strength, lady.

Thanks, mrsfinch. He's doing really well, considering. It's been a rough couple of days.

Yes yes yes. And the wrenching flip side is how they own your heart. I saw Dog One be hit by car yesterday, and I've never screamed like that in my life. He's in the ICU with a low spinal injury. For all he's done for me, I'm sick with the knowledge that I couldn't keep this from happening. Send us good energy,…

Dogs = furry probiotics. Woo.

Word.

One could make the argument that exactly because your grandmother uses it to mean "regular old fit" other people use it to specify that it's the kind of fit your Jewish grandmother would complain about and/or to step into the role of a Jewish grandmother while speaking.

That seems perfect to me. If a 12-year-old wrote it, a 12-year-old is old enough to read it. I mean, really.

Morally, not socially, awkward. Catastrophically morally awkward.

Does anybody else pronounce conlangs as if they were written with the orthography of the last (or first) language she learned in real life? My Dothraki has a wicked Scandinavian accent.

Now I am having all of those responses in a kind of loop.

Eeeww! Time to grab that little sanitizer bottle of Manischewitz.

I AM SO SORRY.

Once or twice I've had the opportunity to tell a person who's just said that X or Y "doesn't look Jewish" that they do not know what Jews look like.

Oh my DOG, those questions are outrageous. What century are we in? When my mom started college in the US, a fellow freshman, never having met a Jewish person before, asked her where her horns were. That was already grade-A gobsmack in the 1960s, but it's 2013 now, right? Right?

Time to watch some kittens and take care of yourself.

Thanks! Already having dogs, we had comfort animals on hand for the rest of the week's events. Good planning.