Chiaroscuro

Breakfast:
one cup of rice
four strips of bacon
one fried egg
One Goldilocks boat tart (ube!)
one cup of Ruby grapefruit juice
water

Lunch:
3/4 cup rice
3/4 cup peas and cheese (Indian)
1 cup okra and seasoning
3 oz. leftover tandoori chicken

1 cup peanutbutter chocolate icecream
1 Hershey's Sundae pie

8 situps
5 pushups
16 (or 32?) crunches

I did an hour on the threadmill. The only reason I was able to keep it up was because I was listening to "New Moon" on my ipod. Part of me is anxious to end this book because it has caused me several nights of bawling like a maniac. But part of me doesn't want it to end because it makes for a good workout. When it is over, I guess I would go back to listening to "Coffee Break Spanish." Or short stories from NPR or The New Yorker. All of that high brow stuff. But there is something about listening to a tragedy that gets you transfixed, and your body moves as if detached from your head. I was able to exist strictly within my head, and my body was just this odd thing below me. The odd thing is that while 80% of me has so much disdain for this reading material, 20% of me is mesmerized.