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February 28, 2007
REVERSAL!
all these people i know have long, lingering colds like the one i had in early january. and i don't! MUAH-HA-HA-HA!
i shouldn't be too gleeful i guess. antibodies and hand washing won't protect me from slicing off body parts accidentally.
ASK ME HOW I KNOW!
Posted by lisa at 09:13 AM
February 27, 2007
EOM
i watched the final Voyager episode tonight.
:|:
my regular doc worked my injury over this afternoon. i mean, worked over in a good way.
i don't know, it seems like a lot of resources have gone into what is, basically, a boo-boo. but i guess i don't want my finger to rot off.
Posted by lisa at 09:08 PM
February 25, 2007
typing is a pain
it's kind of a pain to type w/o being able to use one of my fingers, so forgive me if i'm a little brief over mail and on the blog for a while.
Posted by lisa at 11:53 PM
February 24, 2007
dangerprone daphne
so if you do something stupid with a kitchen knife that necessitates a trip to the ER, try not to do it while there's an outbreak of Vomiting Virus.
ASK ME HOW I KNOW.
Posted by lisa at 08:01 AM
February 22, 2007
top-down time
i actually clocked some top-down time today, but i'm not sad it'll be cold again tomorrow. i'm not ready for the cold to be over, yet.
and in the "amazing e-bay finds department..."
yes, the ones that supposedly were not made.
apparently, at some point, they were!
Posted by lisa at 10:49 PM
goddamned beautiful day
i'm sitting here on the sofa with the back porch door open. the birds are doing the bird thing like crazy, the sun is doing the sun thing like crazy, and the high is supposed to be 68F.
totally taking the convertible to work today.
Posted by lisa at 09:17 AM
February 21, 2007
beer.
i would have to say that today was a big improvement. i spread the points out more evenly throughout the day. i was hungry through parts of the day, but never painfully hungry. i saved enough points for dinner that i was able to have a really satisfying meal. i also wore a pedometer today, did a little extra walking at the mall this evening, and viola! 3 and a half extra points, and i wasn't hungry.
i had a beer.
a diet where i can have a beer if i play my cards right. this is not a bad thing.
Posted by lisa at 10:45 PM
the ascetic is hungry
four days + one meal into this diet and i feel like it's beating me. i really dislike being so hungry so often as i have been these last few days.
if i don't either acclimate or become more skillful at planning my meals, this won't be sustainable.
Posted by lisa at 08:54 AM
February 16, 2007
decadence vs. asceticism
i'm sitting here watching voyager, and i'm going to try and write something thoughtful, which is usually a recipe for disaster. but here we go.
for reasons that may be apparent to those who see me daily i have been contemplating a weight loss plan. it came down to this: atkins vs. weight watchers.
i'm not really interested in discussing the validity of atkins, or the possible dangers, or whether it's healthy in the short or the long term. but wow, does it inspire passion in people. my own experiences showed me the fanatical followers of the diet; reading i've been doing lately has exposed me-- even further-- to its many detractors.
just for the record, though, while i was on atkins a few years ago, i did not have breath that smelled like rotten pineapple. yesterday, on a list i found on a nutritionist's web site, i read that as the number twelve reason why atkins is The Wrong Diet, so i just wanted to make that clear.
ok, so, weight watchers. of course it's difficult to get all of the information about w.w. because they really want you to join the club first before they give it up. although really, in my mind i've started likening both of these diet plans to cults, not clubs. and pyramid schemes, although i'd apply that more to w.w. than atkins, frankly.
so as i was debating which plan to choose, i started thinking about the essential differences between the two. atkins is very appealing, very luxurious; i already know how to follow it, and i get to eat so many things that i love, like cheese. i really love dairy fat. and cheese especially. i mean, cheese isn't just food, it's an art form. in fact, i'm going to go ahead and say that people who discard cheese as being "just flavoring" (really, i read that on one person's web site) have crossed from the realm of healthy eating into the dark pit of cheese-less despair, and should examine themselves for signs of having become a brainwashed zombie. do you crave decadent, fatty braaaaiiinnnssss???
in stark contrast, low calorie, low fat weight loss diets (and i'll admit, i say this as someone who has never followed one) seem to be all about asceticism. oh, there is the wonderful, bountiful world of fresh fruits, vegetables, and lean protien sources, and i certainly have a love of all of those foods. but there's like a sort of moral superiority to these kinds of diets. followers are refraining from the luxurious sin of fat, they're being good.
i've gotta wonder if some of the anti-atkins stuff out there is just sour grapes.
but you know, i've decided to find out for myself. i've done atkins, and i lost weight, and i kept it off for a couple of years until i broke my arm and fucked up my leg and became afraid to walk around my own neighborhood because of the broken sidewalks, and then sprained my ankle a few more times for good measure, and it all went downhill from there.
i'm here again, feeling a panicky need to get my weight under control, and this time i'm going throw in with the spartans. i hear you get "negative points" for exercise. job one is to discover how many laps i have to swim to get an ounce of cotswold. or a few marcona almonds... or half and half in my coffee... or... uh..
i should stop.
Posted by lisa at 09:44 PM
February 08, 2007
XTC not so much, anymore
Interview with Andy Partridge in The A.V. Club
that's ok. we've got thirty-odd years worth of their music to play with.
ETA: the comments are a total snorkfest. my favorite: "XTC: Bollocks." and, of course, "i'd like another order of barbed wire salad with fetus, please."
andy cracks me the fuck up, and as one commenter says, he's no more depressed and reclusive than he ever is. that's just all the magic of andy.
i hope he writes that cross-dressing cowboy musical. i'd fly to england to see that.
Posted by lisa at 11:32 PM
February 07, 2007
i dream of sleep
my illness drags on. i've gone back to work, pretty much, but sleep remains elusive, and i'm convinced now that sleep is both the key to my immediate recovery and the solution to other ills, like my continuing inability to fight off colds and my inability to let the stress at work roll off and not bother me.
it was all j's idea in the beginning; he theorized that i am chronically fatigued. come to think of it-- when was the last time i had eight hours uninterrupted? hm. not sure. maybe he has a point.
and then i thought about the fact that sleep is important for psychological well-being, and that's when it occurred to me that maybe the reason why work seems extraordinarily stressful is because i'm never really fully processing each day during my sleep cycle.
changing eating and exercise habits are difficult, but sleep? heck, i can do that! it's like saying, "wow, i should eat more," or "i should totally watch way more tv."
so in my usual methodical way i've devised a plan and i've begun to enact it. the trick is always sticking with the plan over time. i'm particularly bad at that sort of thing.
i'm also suddenly very curious about the sleeping habits of other people i know. i was telling joe today that i'd like to poll all of our co-workers and find out: what time do you go to bed? when do you wake up? when do you leave the house for work after waking?
i don't know if i'll actually try to take this poll at work, but if any of you have read this far and would like to chime in via comments or private e-mail, i'd be curious. how much sleep do you normally get in a night?
Posted by lisa at 08:57 PM
February 03, 2007
the dullness of illness
being sick is quite boring, but i feel the need to push that last entry down on the page a bit.
j. ordered me to stay home this weekend rather than come visit. i think that was, perhaps, the wise decision. at times over the last two days i've been so out of it during my daily errand-run that i'm not even sure i should be driving locally, much less on an interstate for 3 1/2 hours.
i've become quite bored with television and movies, and was surprised and somewhat horrified to find that all of the new books i have are not books that one actually reads so much as flips through. New York Then and Now, for example, or Motel America: A State-By-State Tour Guide to Nostalgic Stopovers.
it's very rare now that i have the time and mental energy to focus on a novel and actually finish it.
Posted by lisa at 08:27 AM
February 01, 2007
sick dreams
i had vivid dreams last night concerning corpses, vomiting, and feces.
yay. sick is fun.
on the up side we're getting this really beautiful powdered-sugar dusting of real snow.
of course, later it's supposed to ice over which is less fun.
I think One of One overheated himself by remaining parked in front of an active heat vent for too long; he's laying on the cold tile floor of the kitchen right now, which is usually more of a summer activity for him.
my cat, he may be old and slow, but he is endlessly amusing.
Posted by lisa at 09:51 AM