more lessons learned

a. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a brilliant book, yo, and I recommend it highly. Word Freak, while not brilliant, is still a quite enjoyable read. (With regard to the latter: somehow I suspect fandom has piqued my interest and sympathy for freakish obsessive subcultures.)

b. Kiffles are the best cookie ever. Mmm. They're another one of those foods, like gratnuckels and holupkies, that as far as I know only exist in Slovak church cookbooks. Church cookbooks are highly flawed in a number of ways, but if you can actually figure out what the instructions int he recipes mean, there's some yummy stuff hidden within.

c. Wrapping presents can be quite fun and relaxing, in a seriously mindless way.