Well, I guess my body/brain decided that they've done enough for the moment. *chuckle* I noticed yesterday afternoon that I was tiring rapidly, so I stopped working, but I guess I'd already asked more of my brain than it felt like giving -- I fell fast asleep mid-evening in the middle of writing an email, and didn't wake up until my notebook startled me awake at 4am by an incoming email from Parrish.
Today I'm in a fun middleground between functioning and not-functioning. I can write in the stream-of-consciousness sense, but I'm too tired to actually think about what I'm saying; my respiratory & gastro tracts are responding by misbehaving, as they always do when I'm overloaded. Bah. :-p I'm supposed to exercise tonight, but unless I feel better in a real hurry, that's not going to happen.
I'm too tired to read, which really bothers me. I'm at the very end of a six-book series for the first time that I love -- there's perhaps 15 pages left -- and I can't make sense of the words. Luckily most of the major plot threads are tied up, but there are little things I want to find out about what happens.
Still, I've managed to get up, take care of my cecostomy, shower, and even bake biscuits. Keep in mind, though, that I use the world's easiest biscuit recipe, so that's not exactly impressive... *snicker* For anybody interested, it is "dump random quantity of Bisquick in mixing container. Add some water and mix. Form balls and cook at whatever temp you want until the results aren't raw." You can use the exact same recipe, in fact, to make pancakes or doughnuts, if you prefer. You can also customize it by adding random amounts of virtually anything -- sugar, liquid chai, cinnamon, flour. (I add sugar, chai, and flour all the time now.)
I've been given jury duty yet again, and I'm trying to decide whether to take it or not. :-p I could use the (pitiful amount of) money, but I'm not sure whether I can make my body/brain cooperate. Any other auties have experience with jury duty? Should I try it or duck out (which I've done before, it's fairly easy)?
I think my latest batch of biscuits are cooked by now, so enough of this... Maybe eating will give me more energy.
Posted by moggy at October 30, 2003 01:12 PM | TrackBackI went for jury duty once, but was never called. It was very disorienting - strange building, and I had no idea what I was supposed to do or how to behave. I just followed other people that had the same juror paperwork, and did what they did.
After getting to the waiting area, I just kept my nose in a book reading to pass the time. They gave us a bunch of reference material about being a juror that I read - pretty boring. I never even got to see any 'hardened criminals', just a few lawyers wandering around.
If you can cope with going there, the majority of the experience is mainly waiting to be called - nothing very stressful - the atmosphere is sort of like the DMV with no lines of people waiting.
Posted by: Matt on October 30, 2003 03:17 PMI notice you eat a lot of buscuits - are they what you usually eat? Do you add anything else to them in different food groups to enhance their nutritional value, like fruit or nuts or cheese or other stuff, or is it mainly flavored bisquick 3 times a day?
I remember you going out to dinner with Parrish, so I know you eat other things, or maybe not - you could have ordered buscuits there too :)
Posted by: Matt on November 1, 2003 06:19 AMoops - biscuits.
Posted by: Matt on November 1, 2003 06:38 AMHeh, no, I eat a lot of things other than biscuits. As Parrish can verify, there's almost nothing that I won't try and enjoy, including anchovies and bittersweet chocolate.
I have been in the habit of one or two meals (a meal meaning something the volume of a large buttered biscuit) per day for years mostly due to finances. I buy things that provide quite a bit of volume for relatively low cost. Once in a while I add cheese or (if I have a sudden increase in cash flow) meat of some kind.
I think that this next trip to the store, I shall buy a chicken. Those are inexpensive: I can bake it, strip the meat off, freeze it, boil the remaining carcass with tomato sauce to make soup, and use the results in pasta-and-sauce dishes for a couple of weeks, maybe longer if I am careful. I might add cheese of some kind as well, just to sprinkle on top, if there is a good sale going. :)
Posted by: Moggy on November 1, 2003 10:20 AMmmm - that sounds good! My grandmother would take all kinds of bones and make soup that way - delicious!
When my sister was in college she used to eat lots of macaroni she got on sale. She had pots in the window she would grow veggies from seeds. She would also buy 50 lb bags of rice and large bags of beans, and store it in cheap plastic containers to keep the bugs out (college had lots of bugs too) and stretch meals that way. Rice and beans mixed together is a "complete protien" - you can live a long time eating just rice and beans, but might get malnourished on other things.
Posted by: Matt on November 1, 2003 12:52 PM
