I don't use LJ-cut for length, I use it for things I don't want people to have to look at.

( Case in point )

Life cannot possibly be all bad ...

... when paninogirl, who's been here with her setharoo these last couple days, stands at my doorway and says, "Holly, close your eyes and put out your hands."

I respond, naturally, with, "What?"

"I got you a present," she said. "But I didn't wrap it. So you have to close your eyes."

I can't argue with presents. I closed my eyes and she put something in my hands. I opened my eyes only to see ... a Corn on the Cob Serving Set! I am now the proud owner of four yellow plastic trays and eight little plastic things with wires to stab the ends of the ears of corn, "so you don't burn your hands," she said.

I laughed. "That's great. My parents have something like this, it's very nice."

"And now you have your own set!" she said.

"And it's not even my birthday or anything!" I mean really, I usually get presents when it's Christmastime, which is far from corn-on-the-cob-eating-time.

"It's just a you're-swell present," she said. She's so silly.

Now I want some corn.