Tuesday update

present ankle color: blackish-bluish-green

present ankle girth: comparable to an average coffee mug

current temperature: 60 degrees Fahrenheit (I'm sorry did you say August or October?)

dinner tonight: tofu and napa cabbage stir fry with extra chili oil. burns all the way down.

best parental quote of the week:
Mom scorning a truck driver that wouldn't let her over into the left lane-- "That guy is a Republican!"

surprise of the week: phone call from mr. electric juice himself...the one and only EJ. nothing like 1-hour conversations with old friends. picked up again without missin' a beat. check out his thoughts on life in New Orleans at www.hodesh.com (click on the "daily update" section).

non-vegan desserts since sunday: four Mrs. Field's cookies, two bags of Famous Amos cookies, one slice of marble choco-vanilla coffee cake. i am a miserable human being.

act of appreciation for nature this week: obliterating the hornet's nest above our doorway (the nest which, by the way, my Mom and Dad repeatedly referred to as a "honeycomb," even after i insisted that it was an insidious hornet fortress, not a cute buzzy-bee house).

plans for the evening: two words--Carrie Bradshaw.

later haters.