The Stars and the Cookie Jar

I gave my back a sad wrench this evening at work; I think the many gallons of milk in one crate had something to do with it, but now the muscle (I have muscles!) is cranky and I'm wasting a disposable heating pad on it.

Other than that: I'd love to watch a DVD but guess what? The drive is stuck shut again (I'm thinking of leaving the paperclip in the little thingwhacker) ...at least I got my RotK soundtrack out of its nasty plastic jaws.

Other, wiser, Jewisher friends from University are debating the thing with legumes on Pesach. I never got that; what's the issue supposed to be? They're beans. (This is like the Catholics deciding that otter and beaver are kinds of fish, at least during Lent?) I didn't know a bean could leaven, and the professor at whose home I always used to attend Seder (uh... I think that grammar is proper) used two different sorts of lentils in his vegetarian kishke. [N.B. The less said about that, the better.]

Now, I know I'm only a marginal, undereddikated kind of Jew, but I don't get it....