YOU GUYS

("But I'm not a BOY!")

you guys I have just figured out where the DIVINE NAME of my PLASTIC LOBSTER AT MARLENE'S came from (which reminds me, uh, I need to figure out who can rescue him from there)

Somehow the lobster started being called one name, and then a supervisor of mine started calling him Thermidor ("no, I didn't start that," she said later. so it was like this mysterious critical mass thing where we all just suddenly started calling him the same name [wtf?]).

So I was looking up "equinox" today on Wikipedia (when exactly IS the equinox this year? 23rd September, 4-something a.m. UTC. If I had been thinking I would have remembered that I HAVE A CALENDAR). And then lo and behold, there was some French revolutionary period (~12 years) where they started the year on the autumnal equinox. And they had this crazy decimal calendar. AND

Emile Zola, who lived actually very very very near to here, named his book Germinal after one of the months of the calendar, AND

9 Thermidor, an II, (the ninth of Thermidor, year 2) was the year the Convention turned against Robespierre, who was totally guillotined the next day. YES THERMIDOR WAS A MONTH IN THE FRENCH REPUBLICAN CALENDAR

but wait

there's more

there is a dish

called LOBSTER THERMIDOR

you can make this dish IN THE SIMS (2). It requires TEN OUT OF TEN COOKING SKILL POINTS. It is the MOST COMPLICATED and SATISFYING dish in the ENTIRE game.

This is WAY too good to be made up. WAY.

LOBSTER THERMIDOR

WHAT

It makes his name even cooler. Well, the French Republican Calendar Play Celebration part, not the eating him with cheese/milk/butter/cream (how much dairy DO you need in one recipe?) and egg yolks and brandy and such.

oh I don't think anyone will understand how the WORLD has OPENED UP for me tonight

but can I just point out also how the root for thermidor is the Latin "thermos," meaning "hot"

yeah that's right I'm going to take my SEXY LATIN BEVERAGE DEVICE in my lunchbox now!

OHhhh I miss lunchboxes.

thermos!

ooooookay! done being excitable for now.

but HAPPY FRENCH REPUBLICAN CALENDAR NEW YEAR'S EVE! Fructidor, you have been a pretty sweet month.

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