As It Turns Out

• Well as it turns out, it is actually possible to host the book club at your own home without having either read the book or cooked the dinner. 
• As it turns out, the problem with the containment housing for the deepwater oil well wasn't ICE CRYSTALS.  Because jeez.  Did that drive you nuts trying to figure out how ice crystals were forming when surrounded by.. you know.. water?  At the pressure created by a mile of ocean above?    Really, it drove me nuts.  I'm not going to explain it to you, though.  I'm just saying that as it turns out, those headlines were too casual.
• You could look it up, though. (I didn't.  I consulted someone else, who looked it up.)
• As it turns out, you can go to work without makeup on and no one will say anything.  Or faint.
• Turns out also that if you dismantle a bathroom and all of its former contents are stacked in teetering piles of unrecognizable detritus, it is possible to start gaining a lot of weight without realizing it.  Until your pants don't really feel comfortable.