Speaking of dieting making one rather single-tracked; Erika, more than half asleep, addressed the cat thusly... "Excuse me, tomato-based ear pudding."
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10:34:51 AM,
Friday 7 March 2008
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It's disturbing how much of my time I'm spending thinking about food. A picture of muffins cycled up on my screensaver and brought tears to my eyes. But I am learning rather a lot about how to eat more, ah, rationally.
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05:14:18 PM,
Thursday 6 March 2008
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I am developing a decided dislike for all the humbling that's going on. Humbling achievements, humbling victories, humbling accomplishments. Saying you're humble doesn't make it so. But what I'm trying to work out: is it an inherently Christian, or at least religious, sentiment? All glory to God, and so forth? I can't really make much sense of it, outside that context. I find mistakes humbling, I find defeat humbling, I find humiliation humbling. I find the sheer size of the world humbling. Praise, success and adulation may call for humility as a counterwieght, but they aren't themselves humbling. I don't see how, say, locking up the Republican Primary or raising $55 million dollars would be humbling. Am I being obtuse? I can understand how either one might impart a feeling of responsibility, but that isn't humility, exactly. Maybe I'm just being a usage grump. It's their language too, after all.
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03:36:00 PM,
Thursday 6 March 2008
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Gary Gygax, author of The Monster Manual, has failed his saving throw*. There may be people who have had a larger cultural impact on my life, but I can't think of any. The notion that Hit Points were invented in living memory seems crazy to me.
If you need me, I'll be playing nethack.
*joke stolen
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03:31:21 PM,
Wednesday 5 March 2008
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Consumerist impulses: I'll take one of those, two of these...
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06:57:06 PM,
Tuesday 4 March 2008
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I heard her give an hour interview on NPR last week about her memoir, and I wondered if this mightn't be the case: she put in an awful lot of disclaimers about how much things varied from block to block, and how things changed, and got inexplicably tense when he asked about how many kids were in the foster home. In retrospect, you can hear it in her voice: she knew the wreck coming right behind all the great reviews. I'm curious how the interviewer, Tom Ashbrook, will respond, he was really taken with the book. It was a good interview, and she seemingly could have written a good book, just not a memoir. Now, she probably couldn't have sold it. It's a problem with the market. Okay, also a problem with lying through your teeth. Shouldn't overlook that. Yeesh. In retrospect, that interview is really pretty creepy. I was looking forward to leafing through the book next time I was in a bookstore. Ah well.
It raises the question: has this always happened, but it's easier to catch people out now? Or is this a new disease, something that has gone wrong with the publishing industry?
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01:20:55 PM,
Tuesday 4 March 2008
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For the first time in my life, I am dieting. My inner accountant is rather enjoying it, but this sense of resentment isn't entirely pleasant. I've honestly really never had anything come between me and my dinner before, at least not in this way. The relationship between cooking and dinner is intuative. The notion that one must eat healthy things so there will be budget enough for more food later, when you're hungry, and so naturally drawn towards the cheese end of the spectrum, it's unnatural.
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08:21:47 PM,
Monday 3 March 2008
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08:11:43 PM, Sunday 2 March 2008
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08:08:52 PM, Sunday 2 March 2008
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08:03:40 PM, Sunday 2 March 2008
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08:00:58 PM, Sunday 2 March 2008
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Eating just makes me hungry.
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03:41:37 PM,
Friday 29 February 2008
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