Current Ramblings
Thursday, April 29, 2004
I caught one of these in Animal Crossing.
I have become, quite literally, addicted to Vince DiCola. It started when I was in Alabama last fall, when I put in "Artistic Transformations" to help me sleep. I have trouble sleeping in a strange place when it's also dead quiet, so I put in the only instrumental CD I had with me and found that it helped rather a lot. Since then I've put it in occasionally at home when I couldn't get to sleep. But the last two weeks have left me having to get to bed early on a regular basis, and I seem to have become dependant on it. The other night I laid in bed for half an hour unable to sleep, and then I put that CD in and I was out within two songs. Maybe when we have a fan running I'll be able to wean myself off it.
I have also become a Health Food Person in the last couple weeks. After all my digestion-related health problems, I'm trying to eat better, but I'm still a junk food person at heart. I've started getting the bulk of my groceries at Trader Joe's, where I can get frozen fries that aren't simmering in a puddle of grease when I take them out of the oven. Graham was noticing the last time I went that they seem to be catering to two very different groups. They have things like meatless hot dogs next to, say, tofu, as though they're marketing both to people who just want to eat the same stuff they always ate, but healthy, and people who actually know how to cook healthy meals. But I realized that these were the same people, and remembered my boss' observation, while playing Final Fantasy Tactics, that you really could think of people's skills expressed as levels. Right now I think I'm probably at most a Level 5 Health Food Person, subsisting mostly on natural, preservative-free, and/or organic versions of the foods I used to eat. My co-worker Aaron, who is vegetarian and was explaining to Melanie and me the other night how to cook tofu, is, like, level 75. Every time I buy something outside my normal range, like when I got some salmon paties, I got up a level. I think I deserve two levels just for eating yogurt.
Now I'm gonna go eat my Trader Joe's chicken BBQ with my Trader Joe's fries. On a while wheat bun. With fruit punch. Stupid fucking intestine.
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