These Pretzels Are Making Me Thirsty

Seriously, I think most of the entries in my register for debit transactions are grocers, and yet I never seem to have any food! I'm once again hungry and mostly foodless. How does this happen? I'm spending a lot on food and not getting a lot in return, I think. It must be my attempt to eat healthier foods. Damn, it's expensive!

I need to go pick up some cheese to go with my whine.

Rapid change of topic: am I the only one just not that interested in Wee!chester stories? I don't really need to know their backstory more than they've revealed on the show. I don't need those blanks filled. What I would really like, though, are nice, long, plotted stories that could stand in for episodes. I tried reading some of the virtual season (which I don't get, because it's not like we actually NEED a virtual season; we're getting a real one), and they weren't really to my liking even though they fit my episodic criteria. I could just be too picky, huh.

Also, and this will unlikely be an unpopular viewpoint, but I just don't get how any male/male contact is automatically seen as slashy. It drives me kind of crazy, to be honest. Why can't two guys just smack each other on the shoulder without it having any sexual context? Why can't they have chemistry that's not so quickly turned into sexual?

This isn't just my incest-squick talking here. I remember at Gatecon a few years ago, I had to wait it out while MS and CJ stopped wrestling with each other and they jumped to the conclusion that my impatience meant I wasn't a slasher and didn't enjoy the show they were putting on. Uh, no. It's that what I was seeing wasn't homoerotic so much as two guys just being friends. If two men have chemistry together, it doesn't automatically mean, for me, that they'd sleep with each other or that I'd even imagine it. It means they're comfortable, friends and might even have something of a brotherly bond. My brain doesn't automatically go to slash. Why do so many people's brains?