Hello.

I am going to respect the wishes of my chosen candidate and therefore not discuss today's political (if that's what it is) news, because he says that candidates' families and especially children should be off limits for discussion.

I will only say this: it's as if this year's presidential campaign is being scripted by someone in Hollywood. And not in the good way.

Okay. In preparation for tomorrow's early rising, I set my alarm for six this morning. It went off, I said "Oh, it works," and I went back to sleep for two hours. I get a late pass tomorrow, so to speak, because I don't have to be there until eight, so the alarm is set for 6.30. We'll see how that goes.

I am absolutely exhausted today. My own sleep research lab this summer turned up an interesting fact: I will sleep deeply and for a long time as long as I have nowhere pressing to be in the morning. If I set the alarm for, let's say, seven, I will wake up at five and just drift in and out after that. If I have no place to be until noon, I will sleep happily until eight, maybe later. This does not bode well for me, but it does explain why I'm always so tired: on school days, I'm likely to get a couple hours less sleep than I'm actually entitled to. My back hurts today, too, but that will pass.

I spent an hour or two early this afternoon in the kitchen, cooking up mostly a lot of little lemon chicken nuggets, which are now neatly packed in lunch-sized portions. I was going to make it from a package of chicken breast tenders -- easier and quicker to trim than boneless thighs, even though I only like dark meat -- but the chicken breast tenders packages were buy one, get one free, so I had twice has much to cook up. I also cooked and froze little turkey burgers, and a spaghetti squash, which divided up into seven or eight packets. I can eat squash, which fortunately I also like. So I should be good to go on lunches for a couple of weeks. Maybe more. I just have to keep buying fruit. And next weekend maybe make more rice.

I would also really like to finish this book tonight, and I don't have much left, but I keep falling asleep, or at least, closing my eyes. I hope A.J. Jacobs does something else goofy and writes another book because I'm enjoying him, although how much his wonderful and long-suffering wife will put up with, I don't know.

Okay, I have got to find something to eat here, although really, I'm not in the mood.


WATCHING SCRUBS :: ENTRY #1847
SUMMER BOOK #9: The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs