Right at this moment I should be writing a to-do list, taking out the trash, doing my accounts and cleaning my kitchen, but I noticed I hadn't updated here in weeks and decided that my blog was more important...haha
Yesterday was grocery shopping, and I was extremely pleased that I kept both my Sam's Club and Ralph's totals under $20! Ralph's was especially fun for almost every single item I purchased was on sale, not the least of which was a whole fryer chicken for $2.06! You can usually only get prices like that at Costco.
I was too tired to cook last night (I had a mango and some egg rolls for dinner instead) so I will roast the chicken today. I was tempted to buy tortillas, cheese, sour cream, and lettuce so I could make burritos out of the leftover chicken, but then I thought about how many calories over my limit I've consumed in the past couple weeks and sensibly decided not to. Why is a single tortilla 200 calories?! WHY??
Even if I haven't progressed much on my thesis proposal (grr) in the last couple weeks, I have been reading a great deal and just finished re-reading Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I forgot how much I hate the soppish, unsatisfying ending. I keep meaning to read Around the World in 80 Days, but every time I read 20,000 Leagues I hate the ending so much I can't bring myself to start reading Around the World.
I've come to something of a standstill on Rebecca; the first book is almost complete except for two or three chapters are a little short and one is only half-written. I did write some very important scenes for the third book, and I'm very happy with how they look right now. I'm leaving the third book severely alone for awhile, and am currently focusing on the second book, although I really should just finish the first one and find an agent. Actually, I really just need to find an agent.
On the bad news front my leg has been hurting a lot lately and I've taken to wearing my knee brace for sitting around and doing nothing. I haven't put it on yet today, but I think I might for when I actually start taking the garbage out. I also want to walk to campus and look up some more papers (Dr. Lipo wants a complete reading list ASAP, and while I'm sure I can add to my list for my actual thesis, I would like to present a well-researched thesis proposal) on the campus internet since remotely logging on to the campus library doesn't grant me access to all the publications I can get on the campus wifi.
I also need to find the gym and figure out how to register because their old office is gone and I don't know if the registration I did last year still counts for this year. Not that I'm sure my knee can hold up, but it's something to have on the back burner for when my leg feels better.
A few weeks ago Ralphs once again had t-bones on sale and I got two for ten dollars (part of me thinks I should've shelled out another $10 and gotten four) and tweaked my pan-fried recipe a little bit. This was the result:
Doesn't it look delicious?! Oh well, it's nearly 1:30 and I really don't want to spend all evening on campus when all those crazy things are happening in Libya and will be reported live by DW-TV and BBC World News so I really have to get going.
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