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If you find yourself at a repast with nothing to do, wash their dishes.
During a repast, the bereaved are stumbling through the worst grief of their lives. In the midst of this, they are throwing a party. It’s hard to manage both. People do it, somehow, but it adds a lot of stress on top of a bad situation.

If there are dishes in the sink, wash them. After the dishes are dried and put away, organize the food. Put the plates and silverware in one spot, near where people start down the line. Put the light stuff first (salads), followed by casseroles and pasta dishes, followed by meats. Put them all along the edge of table, like you might see at a Home Town Buffet, so people can walk down and take a little from each dish. Remove covers from containers and put each cover right underneath its container.

If someone was smart enough to bring paper plates, then go get the kitchen trash can. Empty it. Put a new bag in. Then put the kitchen trash can by the food table. People will get the idea.

Do a very slow walk around the house. Grab up trash, dirty plates, cups, empty dishes. Then go wash some more dishes.

Anybody who notices you taking care of things will assume you’re supposed to be doing it (because, really, who would volunteer for this?).

You can probably wrap up everything I’ve listed in 45 minutes – an hour if there are a lotta lotta dishes. When you’re done, have a drink, since you’ve earned it. Or leave, because you’ve made your appearance.

I wouldn’t mind those people who suck the life out of me if they would just suck out some of the fat, too.

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The Magicians summed up in six words: “Harry Potter contemplates suicide, finds Narnia.”

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An image that speaks for itself. See the spikes a week after Thanksgiving and Christmas? People went home for the holidays and some of them brought death for their family.

I’d have a clearer picture of the returns if I ate a bunch of red and blue crayons and then threw up on a map of the US.

I was only blocked by two idiots today. I’m losing my edge.

I took a nap this afternoon. When I woke up, Alex surprised me with a seafood lasagna. It is so loaded with scallops and shrimp the whole house smelled like Fisherman’s Wharf.

…It was glorious. So good. And it’s easier than regular lasagna. Instead of a ragu, you make a béchamel and then add scallops to it, and then after a few minutes, you throw in your shrimp and turn off the heat, and assemble it with the noodles, and then bake it. Very quick.

Recipes abound online.

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