312 cookies in six hours is wild but the math on that $180 is what's bugging me. At a typical farmers market booth fee of like $40 to $60 plus butter running you maybe $60 to $80 for that many batches, you're looking at closer to $3 to $4 per cookie just to break even, which means either your price per cookie is too low or your recipe is heavy on the good stuff. If you're charging $2 each you're basically working for free. Bumping to $2.50 or $3 a cookie at a spot like Riverside where people already pay for quality would change your whole day without changing your output. The wrist thing is real though, that bigger scoop trick is smart.

Feel for you, getting woken up early on a weekend is rough.

My buddy Dave had the same fight with his art teacher years ago and he just drew a big dumb skull on page one to prove her wrong, which he regretted about a week later when he needed somewhere to write down his meds and his landlord's number. Now he keeps a whole two pages up front, one for the index and one for stuff like passwords hint and birthdays. The funny part is he told me last month that the blank page almost works like a warm up, just staring at all that empty space before you mess it up. Bev was onto something real and neither of us wanted to hear it back then. Now I do a table of contents and a little quote at the bottom, keeps me from flipping through fifty pages hunting for a note.