Quick World Report

Francisco is traveling across Utah, in and out of phone reception. I am dieting. In New York, my father is breathing a big sigh over relief about a now resolved hugely annoying traffic ordeal. As I chew on a piece of red pepper (my favorite color), my friend Miranda sells off her possessions to fund another one of her continental bike adventures (Africa this time). Ben is somewhere in Wellington, doing something (I wouldn't know what, I haven't talked to him in months. I should really call that guy). My email to my sister Zoe is bumping its head against a technology wall outside of physical space: delayed delayed delayed. The mail system will keep trying to deliver your message for another 43 hours 57 minutes. I wish I could pat the mail system on its back and tell it to stop trying so hard, that 43 hours from now cities could be fallen, that I have other communication systems to fall back on.

I was going through everyone's blogs yesterday, startled that yet again I have not kept in quality touch with people near me, that our minds are light years apart. My friends have so much going on in their lives right now and I in my self-absorbed bubble am not aware of any of it. Brenda and Taisuke moved! Did I know this? No. I meant to ask Allen about his blog last night at TV night, but had some strange severe allergic reaction to Ken and Jeanne's house and was incommunicado for the whole event. My mac n cheese was great though. I ate leftovers for lunch today and felt rad, even if the bread crumb topping was a bit soggy by that point. I pretty much used the recipe on foodnetwork.com if you want to make it. I added cayenne pepper, doubled the amount of cheese and noodles, but only used 1.5 - 1.66 times the amount of all other ingredients (and only 1 egg), because that's how I roll.

Work is wrapping up fine (went out to a lovely dinner at Chow with coworkers, James and Maire on Monday), life is easy, dieting is actually working this week. I must be in the strong part of my cycle. My head is clear. I bet people are finding me more sexually attractive than usual. Oooh, strange creepy sexual dreams last night.