Ice cream cakes

I made myself a pair of ice cream cakes for my birthday. Mint chocolate-chip ice cream, dense dark chocolate brownies, drizzled with melted chocolate. Dark, of course.
The dense brownies proved a logistical challenge. When frozen, the brownies were hard as stone (though still delicious as brownies).


This post's theme word: ophidian, "snake-like."
This post written like David Foster Wallace.

Happy birthday

Happy birthday to me, Google, and Scott Pilgrim! Also B. Thanks to the parents who (1) conceived me, (2) birthed me, (3) raised me, and (4) visited me this pre-birthday weekend, carrying flavorful apples from home. In that order.


This post's featured word is a really cool one I haven't been able to work into any other post: coelom, "a cavity lined by an epithelium derived from mesoderm. Organs formed inside a coelom can freely move, grow, and develop independently of the body wall while fluid cushions and protects them from shocks."

More honestly, this post's theme words: bedlam, "an old woman; a hag," and the related word termagant, "a scolding, nagging, bad-tempered woman."