wolfy + cake = happy wolfy

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My first student came 20 minutes early today. I was making gingerbread when she turned up, and had to finish it before I could see her. (Otherwise, the cake mix would sit in the pan and lose air, and be all sulky by the time I got round to baking it.)

She asked, "Is there a special occasion?". I replied "I like cake?!". And then went on to explain about my food issues making it impossible for me to buy cake, so I need to make my own. But that was something of a logical disconnect between h-l and the rest of society. Apparently, normal people only make cakes on special occasions. This boggles my mind. Cake is good! Homemade cake is even reasonably healthy. Even if my cakes weren't ultra-low fat, they'd still be lower in fat than a chocolate bar or packet of crisps, while providing a good mix of complex and simple carbohydrates.

Hmmm.

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I love cake, and especially the (really bad for you, health-wise) sort commonly referred to here as, "Birthday cake," which people very strictly only ever have on birthdays (and most women scrape all the frilly excess icing off to give away to children and men -- a tradition that would bother the hell out of me except that it always winds up with me getting more icing and the women I'm involved with who I'd feel most comfortable discussing it with do it just because they find it too sweet or don't like the flavour). I make a point of buying myself one once in a while just for the hell of it. I don't know if that's supposed to be subversive or not, or just my usual sort of, "Why the hell not?" thing.