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Moving the weight off here since well does it really matter what day I use? No I've lost no weight but let's face it, I'm not trying. Tenure crap will be done by tuesday THEN I can think about it. I did, however, get my written permission and lab work and I'll fill out the paperwork on wed. I am at least making plans.

I DID find a few healthy things that I wanted to share (keep in mind I am very skeptical of so much of the nutrition health stuff because of small sample sizes etc and I haven't yet tried looking up the science behind the claims but these were easy enough, and sounded tasty)

Adding black pepper to a meal + green tea may in fact boost weight loss. I eat practically everything with pepper so maybe I'll bump up one of my tea times to just after dinner.

We do know chocolate is healthy. DARK chocolate. Milk, in fact, impairs the flavanoids. I did not even think of that (YES, that means all the benefits of tea go away if you put cream in it). They kept talking healthy chocolate drinks and I was thinking hot chocolate. Oh hell. I've tried making it with soy and disliked that intensely. I tried it tonight with coconut milk (which they're saying doesn't act like saturated fat, though it is, and acts in a healthy manner. This is one that I really want to research). So if dark chocolate makes you lose weight and coconut milk (and coconut, unsweetened, does too) then hot chocolate using it should be super good. At least it tasted okay. We shall see (btw for health benefits it's a min. of 60% cocoa and preferrably over 75%.)

however, I also just heard two other chocolate factoids: americans eat 100 pounds of chocolate a second collectively and this chocolate health craze has now spiraled so out of control it's causing environmental impact. Just something to keep in mind. Also the process of dutching decreases chocolate's flavanoids and sure enough even my dark chocolate powder is dutched.

Otherwise today was a bust. I NEED to start writing. I did crank out a little something for the fic contest but I'm cranky because there's been no time to write. I've ended up with almost TEN weeks missing from my big bang time. Sigh. There is good news though, my galleys are sent back for Haunted.

The dryer at the laundromat didn't heat and I HAD to get back to get working on tenure/class notes so my whole apt is draped with wet clothes drying. now it's damp and chilly in here.

I'm recording The Fades UK crew, any of you seen it? (or hell any of you guys streaming stuff from all over, what do you think?

got this from

scratchingpost1

Your result for The MASH 4077 Test...

Commanding Officer

You scored 100

A true fan. You probably have seen every episode more times than you can count and still watch it in syndication or own it on vhs or dvd. Not much of anything slips by you. You are the boss with the brass.

Take The MASH 4077 Test at HelloQuizzy

I admit it. I've watched bits of it every day this week...