Now I can be happy forever...

Because the people who make Le Petit Ecolier cookies make an extra-dark version.

I've always loved this basic cookie form: mild butter cookie topped with a slab of dark chocolate. Carr's Dark Chocolate Imperials. Dark Choco Leibniz.

And now there are these, the perfect example of the form. Seventy percent cocoa. Bitter and rich and intense enough to curl your toes, the bitterness just relieved by the sweet butter cookie.

I'd say it was better than sex, but then, I've always been one to embrace the power of "and."

Holy Shit!

I just checked out my sitemeter for Respectful of Otters. 2756, it said, in what appeared to be a misprint.

Except, no. Nine hundred nineteen visitors today, where I've previously been averaging about 50.

The American Prospect linked to me. Thanks to pnh, apparently, who was responsible for my previous record high in traffic (135, I think), when he linked to me on Saturday.

You know what I'm feeling now? Sheer, raw terror. But it's kind of a fun terror.

Nine hundred nineteen visitors today. Eeeek! What do I do now?

Update: It hit a thousand by midnight. Oh my god oh my god oh my god.