Current mood:	satisfied
Current music:	Halo CD by Kicking Giant

A day in the life of Donutposse

Membership has its privileges, as the commercials used to say. Only they should have been talking about Donutposse, not about some piece of lifestyle-defining plastic.

I got home today & found an instant message from a lovely young fan, left while I was away. She had written:

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(name withheld):Why must the donutposse be out all the time?

Auto response from xxxDONUTPOSSExxx: the donutposse is out. thanks for dropping by.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/donutposse/

(name withheld): when will the donutposse be in?
(name withheld): I need to make an appointment to kiss, tickle, and laugh with the donutposse!
(name withheld): Not just with Devin, with all members!

Auto response from xxxDONUTPOSSExxx: the donutposse is out. thanks for dropping by[...]

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That, and it's girl scout cookie time again. Now, I love girl scout thin mint cookies. I might've called it Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookie Posse if that had a nice ring to it & weren't so cumbersome to write. But it doesn't & it isn't, so I opted for "Donutposse" one fateful day in a century now long gone by.

But I will say that if you were a Jew wandering through a desert 40 years wide one day like any other of wandering, and you sat down to another dinner of manna one night, and you decided that you had a little room left for dessert & that you might have a little manna for dessert (since manna was the only thing on the menu in those days besides quail, and who ever heard of quail for dessert), then God probably made that manna (the manna you had for dessert, not the manna you had for dinner) taste like girl scout thin mint cookies sometimes. Probably just those times that he wanted to give the wonderful flavor of fresh warm chocolate filled donuts from Shipley's a break so you'd love it all the more the next time your dessert manna tasted like those then not-yet-invented but present in the flavor palette of an omni-prescient God's treat sector.

And it's not so much the girl scout cookies I go in for as much as the girl scout thin mint cookie ice cream from Dreyers.

Really: Life is good, sitting having a big bowl of girl scout thin mint cookie ice cream for dinner while reading the flattering comments of a gorgeous, brilliant young admirer. One more thrilling day in the life of the Donutposse. Plus, today at work my boss stopped by my cube to say that I sounded like I knew what I was talking about in the meeting we'd attended earlier in the day. I love sounding like I know what I'm talking about. And I love it even more when someone else notices.

Another bite of ice cream. Another sentence. Savor the flavor, and bask in the glow of a good day. I hope you had as good a day as I did. And that's the nicest thing I can think of saying to anyone at this point.