varying degrees of light

We are less than six hours into this year. For a considerable amount of time, we will write down the incorrect year and scratch out 2007 to hastily scribble 2008 above it. The privilege to celebrate another of our birthday's will be bestowed upon us... at some point. Those of us who graduate will graduate and be thrown into something outrageous and horrifying; others of us will merely take another gigantic step in our academic journey; still others will continue thriving or, at the very least, surviving. Those are my assumptions anyway. If anyone deviates from the plan that I have doomed you to follow, please let me know.

I'm watching Next Food Network Star with my brother - this one contestant does not like goat cheese. (The others chose baby corn, bok choy, tofu and lima beans as their least favorite ingredient.) I love goat cheese (and baby corn, bok choy, tofu and lima beans). The project was to host a 5 minute segment about cooking their least favorite ingredient. I find myself wondering what dish I could make that features... cottage cheese.

Does anybody especially care about cottage cheese? Do you have an affinity for cottage cheese? Seriously, can you help me? 'Cause the only way that I've seen people eat it is like it were yogurt (spooned with or without fruit) or in a lasagna. I had a very solid lasagna at the Hielema house, but if I hadn't seen it on top, I wouldn't not have known it was there.

Also, if you're going to eat cottage cheese like it were yogurt, why don't you just eat yogurt? It's delicious. Can you put granola in cottage cheese?

So, that's what I have for you - a bunch of questions.

For next time's blog, please view Stranger Than Fiction. Twice, if you want to. And buy me the soundtrack. I swear it will make sense.