So -

I'm home, I arrived safely, traveling was traveling (the train was only 16 minutes late! That's practically on time). I'm enjoying being home with my mother and getting to see my dad.

Today's sermon involved the phrase, "Senator Nameforgotten could hang the ten commandments in every courthouse and school in the nation - well, he couldn't, but let's just say for the sake of argument that he could - but there would still be drug dealers and murderers and ponzi schemers and capitalists."
Our new preacher amuses me. He also has a tendency to start a story and then trail off and conclude, "When I started this story I thought it was going to be more relevant and less self-indulgent, but never mind," but he still gives good sermons and is quite charismatic. There's something very personal about them. Also, there's something intensely gawky about him that reminds me of a teenage boy.

We went to Joy Tsun Lao for lunch today to celebrate my cousin Naomi's birthday, and both Naomi and her brother behaved quite well - although they were not pleased by the St. Patty's Day parade which made the drive take an hour instead of twenty minutes because we had to make this giant circle to get around it.

And then I helped in the latest installment of The Turkey Saga. I have now stuck gooey green stuff underneath a turkey's skin preparatory to stuffing and baking it. (The gooey green stuff was actually pretty nice; it was slightly warm and smelled of sage.)
The oven is still way too hot, but I think mom set it to about half what it should be and it's hopefully about right. She says that the new stove is coming on Wednesday.

Adventures of a Philadelphia lifestyle

Apparently our oven/stove unit is a one-horse shay.

Dream last night

It was snowing heavily, possibly a snow day. I needed to turn in my tax forms, and in my dream, you couldn't turn in tax forms online, you needed to go to the tax form office and turn them in in person. Usually there was a big line at the tax form place, but because of the weather there was almost no one there. The person (or maybe it was two people) in front of me was/were talking to the woman at the first desk, so I went around that one to the second desk, which was the only other desk with a person at it. President Obama was sitting there, so I handed him my tax forms, and he looked them over for me, and then we chatted. I can't particularly remember what about.