No fixed plans. Not intent upon arriving.
I had another slice of Gretchen’s banana cream pie for breakfast. I weighed 156 pounds.
Lunch was mandarin chicken on chow mein noodles from Panda Express at the HUB.
I had an apricot slush after work.
Dinner was a Caesar salad with three slices of garlic bread and two bottles of Saranac Pale Ale.
Tonight’s MBNA Fitness Center workout:
The Toaster is a large picture, 5 meter wide and 4.5 meter high, totally made from slices of bread toasted in different lengths of time to reach the nuances between black and white, ochre and rust. It took several days of work and several friends and their toasters to prepare the 2,500 pieces of toast necessary to build the gigantic mosaic, which reproduce a photograph of a toaster.
Breakfast was a bowl of cold cereal, a glass of orange juice and two cups of coffee. I weighed 156 pounds.
At the office I had another cup of coffee.
I ran some errands over lunch and stopped at Taco Bell on the way back and picked up two bean burritos for lunch.
On the way home, I saw this family of Canada geese by the pond in Linden Hall. I have been watching the young ones since they were just fluff balls, but this was the first time they were close enough for me to get a picture. They are actually starting to look like geese. 
I had an apricot slush after work.
Dinner was lo mein and a bottle of Saranac Pale Ale. I had a slice of Gretchen’s banana cream pie for dessert.
[Gilbert] Levin’s long, strange search for the ultimate sugar replacement started three decades ago, when he stumbled upon chiral chemistry, the well-established principle that complex molecules exist in “right-handed” and “left-handed” forms, known as enantiomers.
There’s an easy way to understand chirality. Hold out your hands, palms facing each other. Imagine that each hand is the chemical structure of a molecule. Most complex molecules are chiral. Like your hands, the two structures of chiral molecules — in sugars, they’re referred to as D and L, from the Latin dexter and laevus — differ only in the arrangement of their elements. Put your hands together and they seem to match exactly. In the same way, the common sugar D-glucose is the mirror image of L-glucose, its rare counterpart. But put your hands down one on top of the other, both facing down, and you’ll see that they’re not identical at all; they’re what chemists call non-superimposable.
Two enantiomers of a molecule will respond identically in a chemical reaction, but not so in biological systems. Proteins and cell receptors are designed to react only with particular enantiomers. For example, the enzymes in your stomach can digest only right-handed sugars. Just as a glove fits only on the proper hand, our bodies distinguish between the enantiomers of any given molecule. [Ratliff]
Ratliff, Evan. “Hitting the Sweet Spot.” Wired. November 2003. <www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/newsugar.html> (16 June 2004).
Breakfast was two cups of coffee, a glass of orange juice, and two slices of banana bread. I weighed 157 pounds.
I took a four mile walk over lunch. I ended up going by Brother’s Pizza, so I grabbed two slices of cheese pizza and ate them while sitting on the wall in front of Old Main.
While I was sitting there working on my first slice, this little fellow came up and thought he would help himself to the other. I warned him that it was mine and that if he persisted I would be forced to take his picture. He was unfazed and apparently thought I was offering him the camera instead, as he tested to see if the camera was good to eat. I tried shooing him away, but he apparently thought I was throwing things to him. Eventually I took my pizza and finished eating while I continued my walk. Too cute…
I had an apricot slush after work.
Dinner was a garden salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette and a bottle of Saranac Pale Ale.
In case you missed it, you will be happy to know that the USDA now defines frozen French fries as “fresh vegetables.” According to the Chicago Tribune:
The Frozen Potato Products Institute appealed to the USDA in 2000 to change its definition of fresh produce under PACA to include batter-coated, frozen French fries, arguing that rolling potato slices in a starch coating, frying them and freezing them is the equivalent of waxing a cucumber or sweetening a strawberry.
The USDA agreed and, on June 2, 2003, the agency amended its PACA rules to include what is described in court documents as the “Batter-Coating Rule.”
Tim Elliott, a Chicago attorney who recently challenged the revision in a Texas federal courtroom on behalf of a bankrupt food distributor, said defining French fries as fresh vegetables defied common sense.
“I find it pretty outrageous, really,” said Elliott, who argued that the Batter-Coating Rule is so vague that chocolate-covered cherries, packed in a candy box, would qualify as fresh fruit. [Martin]
Martin, Andrew. “Calling fries fresh veggies half-baked, critics argue.” The Chicago Tribune. 15 June 2004. <www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0406150244jun15,1,7819213.story> (15 June 2004).
Breakfast was a bowl of cold cereal with banana slices and a cup of coffee. I weighed 157 pounds.
I had another cup of coffee at the office.
Over lunch I took a four mile walk around campus, stopping at Subway along the way for a Turkey Breast and Bacon Melt Wrap.
These lovely young ladies came over to say “Hello” as I walked by.
After work, Gretchen and I cooled off with a glass of apricot slush.
Dinner was hot asparagus with whole wheat pasta, a wilted lettuce salad, and a bottle of Saranac Pale Ale.
Tonight’s MBNA Fitness Center workout:
Breakfast was three sausage links, a piece of toasted colonial bread with homemade strawberry jam, a glass of orange juice, and a cup of coffee. I weighed 156 pounds.
These little fluff balls crossed in front of me on the way to work this morning.
At the office I had two cups of green tea.
Over lunch I went for a four mile walk around campus. I stopped at the HUB and had Panda Express Vegetable Sushi (a contradiction in terms, I know, since Sushi means “delicious fish”) — three onari and five vegie rolls (carrots, cucumber, and avacado) — and a cup of Thai Tea Boba.
After work and my semi-weekly workout, I had a slush.
Dinner was a garden salad with sausage and Balsamic Vinaigrette, a bottle of Saranac Pale Ale, and two hands full of peanuts.
Much of the time, I will say that I had two bottles of beer with dinner. Well, that is actually a misrepresentation. It usually turns out that I have one after work and then another with dinner. It is easier, and less pedantic, to simply say I had two, rather than saying I had one and then I had another. Tonight I have to resort to the latter semantic arrangement since it clearly is not two of…, it is one of… and one of… The first one being “The Recipe.”
If you are looking for a delicious, refreshing make-ahead frozen drink, this is for you.
To serve, fill a glass half way with the slush and top it off with Sprite or 7-Up. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.