That's probably true. And it's useful to know, if nothing else. [Cooking can come in handy at a lot of weird times, and they do keep getting thrown into odd survival situations here when travelling to other places. So he can't exactly advocate against learning how to cook in a world as unpredictable as this one.]

Well, it can be hard to tell what moon cycle you are before it actually happens. I'd say if you haven't changed by now you can probably say you're not Sanguis, but I've seen people post about not changing their first cycle or two, so that might not even be true.