y'know, I bet if I checked back I'd find this same entry every year, too...

[robling_t]

Still grappling with the soul-crushing awareness that nobody in this life is truly happy and the sun's just going to burn out in six billion years anyway, or "November" as we like to call it around these parts. Don't suppose anybody would be up for taking me out to lunch sometime for a live reading of this emo-girl opus...?

...Crap. Well, here's yesterday's New Thing, anyhow:

• New Thing Learned for 27 November: A single company in Chicago produces 40% of the country's supply of gyros meat. Sadly, the program didn't go into detail on how these vast herds of gyros are raised and humanely slaughtered. [Source: "Culinary Chicago", WTTW.]