According to today's Snapple cap, the average smell weighs 760 nanograms. I have to say, my coffee cup smelled a LOT heavier than average this morning after marinating on my desk all weekend. *choke*

On the way to work this morning, my carpoolee remarked, with apparent relief, "It's Thursday." And I responded to her stunning insight with the equally earth-shattering, "Almost Friday, thank the good Lord."

She then commented, "Coming from a Jew, that means a lot." I wasn't sure what she meant. I paused for several moments, maneuvering through the morning traffic, and then said, "You mean because we're, like, The Chosen or something?" And she laughed, because it was funny, obviously, and so I then said that I figured between the two of us, we had the Jewish thing and the Latter-Day Saint thing covered (if you've guessed she's a Mormon, give yourself a prize), so God should be pleased with the sentiments coming from this particular vehicle today.

So we laughed a little more and I thought that was it. A couple of minutes later, though, she said, "When you said the word 'Lord' before, did you mean Jesus, or did you just mean, you know, like, God?"

I told her I meant plain old God. She apologized that she had misunderstood, because (she said) when she uses the term 'Lord', she specifically refers to Jesus, and that was why she had made the initial comment. So apparently she thought I was so happy that it was almost Friday that I was willing to thank a guy I don't acknowledge as having religious or spiritual significance to me for helping us get this far along in the week.

Help me out here, people: Are Jews the only ones who call God 'the Lord' sometimes? Was my friend's misunderstanding just an LDS thing, or is it a common Christian thing to think of Jesus as Lord and God as, I don't know, just God?