Packing Heat
Somewhat approximate since I didn't keep proper records at first (too many random fluctuations when you start losing weight), but I make this week 52 since Operation Become Less Fat began. Weight so far:
Celebrated with a McDonalds Big Mac Meal. Tasty as ever, and love the convenience. Especially when I've worked a long day, fed up with trudging home past a dozen chip shops and burger bars and kebab houses and Indian takeaways and fried chicken joints to start chopping up vegetables for the steamer. Have lost my McReflexes though: stood around for two minutes in the regular queue before spotting the empty Express queue, then forgot to ask for ketchup. I feel like such an amateur.
Going to be tough not to gain weight over the next month: have 11 days of eating out in Italy, then a week with my parents. Will probably be right back at the start again by January.
Reading
Not much. Got another bunch of Asterixes which I've been working through
(not counting them since they're re-readings).
Also
got through another comic:
Ex Machina:
the First Hundred Days
Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris.
Introduces a new superhero with power over machines, who gives up the superheroing
to become Mayor of New York, where he can make more of a difference.
Not bad, but not a lot happens beyond introducing the characters.
Watching
Saw
Capote on DVD.
Pretty good. It's a mood-and-character thing so you don't really notice
the glacial pace. It's about Truman Capote's research and writing of his book
"In Cold Blood" about a notorious multiple murder. Very well done as you
see Capote both ruthlessly manipulative in his attempts to get access to
all the parties, and increasingly unsettled by his identification with one
of the murderers.
Worth seeing.
Me: consumerism
Still knackered, still not booked hotels and stuff for Italy holiday.
Tempted to buy a new bag, a replacement for my 45-litre-rucksack-plus-daypack-with-straps-tucked-away-to-impersonate-a-suitcase
bag, since the daypack expired ages ago.
Couldn't find one the same size though: the closest seems like 60-litre Lifeventure Kativa, which seems a bit much for my little one or two week trips. On the other hand, can always travel with extra space in there.
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