sunday may 16

today i went grocery shopping and attempted to buy hamburgers for the bbq we were hosting in the evening. at the grocery store, i surveyed the burger section up and down, confused by all the options available to me and unsure which one to choose. at one point, i ultimately even had to decide between one box labeled "barbecue" and another labeled "bbq." i chose "bbq" and it wasn't until much later in the day, when the box had been flipped over, that i found out barbecue was just the french version of bbq. this would've saved me a few seconds of angst at the grocery store.