Made Cornmeal Chili Bake from Everyday Vegan tonight. It was good, I suppose. Manfriend would have liked it in a taco (boys will be boys), and I agree that some sort of tweaking is definitely in order. The cornmeal stayed too darn mealy for my liking. I hate a meal that doesn’t know its place.

Mostly, though, I am thinking abut how riled up everyone is getting over this H1N1 thing. With so much propaganda spewing forth from either side, I’m scared to open my mouth for fear of A) incurring the wrath of someone who has an “informed” opinion on the subject or B) sucking in the damn virus and passing it on to my kin (Seriously. News flash, Close-Talker at Wal-Mart: there is a very, maybe, perhaps harmful, perhaps regular flu bug out there. Get your tongue out of my ear and find the muffin cups yourself!)

So while I am really worried for those who have it or might get it and also for those who have been vaccinated and those who haven’t, I have no idea where I sit and I am getting sick and tired of watching 60 Minutes excerpts from before I was born.

That said, the local paper did publish the magic ingredients of the miraculous/lethal vaccine tonight.

Here’s a hint: you better eat it before it eats you.

No, not L’Eau de Fonzie. Try again. That’s right! It’s shark oil! So, suck it vegans. This flu’s for you!

Sigh. I just want everyone I love to live to see another Happy Days re-run. Too much to ask?

Eat your veggies, wash your hands, don’t lick the windows on the bus and we’ll all make the right decision in the end.