Thank you for the lovely comments on my last post!

Today has been a very long and anxiety-filled day.  I know it’s not unusual to feel dizzy and lightheaded from not eating enough; I’ve never heard of feeling that way from eating too much.  But I guess anxiety can cause that, too.  And those Boosts certainly did a great job of causing anxiety.  I spend way too much time in my own head.  Must get new earbuds, since mine are crapping out again, to maybe shut myself up by stuffing my ears with music all day instead.  This mental cacophony is especially unwelcome at this time because I have a really insane amount of work to do for school.  And a presentation due… I am terrified of that.

It definitely didn’t help on the school front that my priorities are such that I absolutely needed to watch Game 6 of the World Series.  I am thrilled to pieces that I did, though, because I am a Yankees fan.  Hate me if you must, but I am very very happy about this. 

Being the fastidious freak (hey, I had to toss in some alliteration somewhere, you know ) that I am, I hate hate hate hate having chips in my nail polish. Last night I noticed a small one, but it was too late to fix it because it wouldn’t have had time to dry. So this morning I grabbed the bottle of polish on my way out the door, figuring I’d just fix it up when I got to work.

I’m sure you see the problem here. I had to spend all day staring at the chip. AUGH.

I was in the supermarket, standing near the grapes, and this very devout-looking man next to me reached in and sampled a grape. Not that I’m advocating that, but I can understand trying one, to gauge its sweetness or whatever. But he took a bag, stuck it in his shopping cart, and kept eating them. It’s not like buying chips and then giving the cashier the empty bag to have the bar code scanned… these things are sold by weight. AKA, what he did was stealing. Am I being a “prude” in thinking that? And then he was standing next to me near the bananas too — I wanted to ask him if he was planning on ripping one of those open to try it, but I restrained myself. :p

I bought red grapes, but I added some black ones to the bag because I wanted to try them.

I prefer red.

A “jumbo salad” for Katie:

Romaine, roasted baby portabellas, sprouts, roasted carnival squash, and soy nuts. The carnival squash was a much greater success than it was last time! That said, this salad was kind of … bizarre.

The individual components were each good, but together, they added up to the strangest combination of flavors. The sweetness of the squash and the raspberry vinaigrette were competing against the earthiness of the mushrooms, and the soy nuts’ salt just didn’t really fit! (They’re salted because I bought them with the intention of making soy nut butter, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet… and I figured that would be less of a drag than salting it myself!)

I bought these chicken “burgers” in Whole Foods today:

Okay, not the most photogenic of plates — there’s not a lot of color here!  Steamed chopped broccoli, millet, and the aforementioned chicken “burger.”  Points of note: to make millet properly, I need to remember to toast it first.  And, uh, turn off the stove before it starts to dry out and burn.  As for the chicken “burger,” I definitely microwaved it for too long; so I’m not going to render judgment on it yet!  I know I didn’t hate it, but that’s all I’m going to say for now.

When I was in Whole Foods, I saw a Fuyu persimmon.  From my past experiences with persimmons, I don’t like them.  But my nutritionist told me that Fuyu persimmons (every time I try to type “persimmon,” I type “permission”!) are nothing like regular persimmons, and I just have to try them because they’re so amazing.  I was about to buy one, but then I realized they are $2.99.  Each.  Can you imagine what a disaster that would be if I really did love them?!  Have you ever tried a Fuyu persimmon?  Did you love it?

And I finally bought soy protein powder.  (The agony… with spirulina, or without?!)  Very excited, because now I can attempt a breakfast cookie.  Recipes welcome! 

I’m going to indulge in a quick little rant here about why I hate public transportation.  I check for service advisories every day before I leave the office, and if the subway line I usually take is having delays, I take a different one.  That’s what happened today.  And then the train I did take wound up going out of service in the most inconvenient of places; i.e., I couldn’t transfer.  Rather than waiting, I hoofed it out of there and to the next station.  Which is only about a ten-minute walk, but, um, I have an awful sense of direction and didn’t really have any clue where I was going.  As commutes go, I’ve had worse, so I can’t call it the Commute from Hell; maybe the Commute from Purgatory.

I haven’t shared one of these in a while, but Snapple “Real Fact” #797: In Youngstown, Ohio, it is against the law to run out of gas.  Any Youngstown residents reading this? … Is that actually true??

Whether or not that is a fact, this is certainly weird… my dad showed me this dime.  I wonder how this happened!

Have a great Thursday — the week is almost over!