M&M pancakes and various announcements

first off:

This is an M&M pancake. 

My roommates and I made them last night and the result? Delicious. Although not as delicious as plain old chocolate chip pancakes. Those are a delicacy we get to enjoy only when our friend Mia comes to visit, because she is the professional chocolate chip pancake maker and curer of all morning ills we might be feeling after a long night. But anyway, the m&m pancakes.. the only problem is that the m&m coating? It melts off a little? and burns a little. But mostly it's totally fine, and I suggest you try them when you are out of chocolate chips but just must, absolutely must have chocolate-themed pancakes for dinner, and happen to have some m&m's lying around. My sister Danielle suggested you get all your health in this meal by topping it off with whipped cream and chocolate syrup. Excellent, excellent idea, Danielle. Most excellent. 

And now onto news that isn't going to clog your arteries.

Mainly, school. I am in it, if you didn't know. A sophomore in college. And this coming couple of weeks, it looks as though I am going to be quite swamped writing philosophy papers, studying for exams and attempting to get a thirty page(!) portfolio of good writing that I am proud of together for my final review in my creative non-fiction class. 

holy moly, me oh my!

In fact, I am putting off studying right this minute by writing this blog post instead. I should be reading about Descartes, and Berkeley and Locke and Hume, and origination of the narrative gospels of Jesus (that part is actually sort of interesting, from a scholarly point -- all about the myth-making of the "life" of Jesus as the son of God, rather than as a teacher of rules to live by in a difficult time) and writing page and pages of difficult to write things for my non-fiction class. whew.

So, in the mean time, leave me buried under this ever-growing pile of papers and notebooks, and go peruse these lovely sites from the Blog It Forward project and these lovely blogs:)