no one expects the Roman Inquisition!

My Age of Reformation professor described inquisitions as "the two half hours of Law & Order rolled into one." For whatever reason, ever since then I have been jonesing for a TV crime drama about an inquisition. Which, you know, will never happen because of everything the inquisition is associated with (heresy, execution, repression, authority, etc.) and actually did (again with the heresy and the torture and the execution), I'm just...unreasonably fascinated with the idea. Hey, it could be the Roman Inquisition! Which did less executing than the Spanish Inquisition, and also was the starting point for a few popes, who then may or may not have blackmailed their way to the Throne of St. Peter. (When you are the head of an inquisition which operates in secret, you know things. Even about your fellow cardinals. Especially about your fellow cardinals!)

(I'm sorry. Dirty papal politics will never not be funny.)

Law & Order: Medieval Crimes Unit?

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Roommate broke my second smallest glass bowl. Which I use everyday. I think it's this set -- which, hey, I paid half the price that's on Amazon; I think I paid $6 for the set at T.J. Maxx, so it's not a big financial loss, it was just, you know, the bowl I use everyday. For eating out of, for prep during cooking...

Maybe these will go on sale sometime soon. Or I'll find something at St. Vince's or Goodwill when I go home.

She didn't do it on purpose, she apologized, just...argh. Bowl I use everyday. For putting cut fruit in, for putting yogurt in (which was why it was in the dish rack in the first place! I'd just had yogurt, then washed it!), for putting pieces of butter in to chill in the freezer, for food prep in general...

And now I'm really depressed. MY BOOOOOOOWL. Look, it does not take much to depress me, all right?