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Argh, so disgusted with my weight right now I can't even tell you. One week of illness and all the progress I'd made prior to that goes right out the window. I gave it some serious thought last night at dinner (I ate about 1/3 of the serving and was full, so leftovers for me). It's not that I eat *that* much, if I did my weight would be more stable than it is and if I cut back calorie-wise I'd see a change. So I can't see how reducing caloric intake is going to be effective.

Ok, so exercise. I workout at least 3-5 times a week, counting dancing and abs/buns routines, and I know that'll kick up a notch in the coming weeks as we get into heavy rehearsals. When I'm dancing a lot I'll maybe take off a pound or two tops, but it's not sustainable when I'm not working myself to death so that's no good.

What does this leave me with? Well, I suppose I must be eating too much fat, it's about the only thing I have left to blame at this point. So, sad as I am to say it, I think the Chummus is going to have to stay out of my life for a bit. I'm going to focus on lowering my fat intake as much as possible and see what happens. Although how I'm going to manage without peanut butter I don't know. Even the reduced fat variety is pretty high. I'll have to start making more non-sandwich lunches I guess.

If this doesn't work then I'm back to square one.

*sigh*

Anyway, I also realized last night that I haven't had a crush on a living, breathing, possibly obtainable human being in a long while. I mean sure, I've found people attractive, but not an "Oh my god!", heart-racing, hormones boiling, short-of-breath kind of crush. Is that weird? Yeah, it probably is.

So anyway, reading musesfool's journal today and her "Ten Fictional Characters I'd Shag" list, I thought it a bit odd that I could easily rattle off a list of fictional people I'd bed in a heartbeat. This is also probably a bit weird, particularly considering some of the names on that list:

1) Remus Lupin and Severus Snape(movie versions, preferably as a matching set)
2) The Phantom of the Opera (Kay's novel version, or perhaps Crawford, definitely not the movie one)
3) Colonel Brandon (oh dear gods yes, movie version)
4) Kurt Wagner, a.k.a. Nightcrawler (comic or movie, not too picky there)
5) Starbuck (and if she called out Apollo's name during sex I'd be very understanding)
6) Frodo Baggins (only if I were a Hobbit too, otherwise that'd be kind of icky)
7) Lt. Col. Paul Ironhorse (yum!)
8) Ninth Doctor (oh hell yes!)
9) Captain Jack (and/or a combo of him and Nine...mmm)
10) Odo (hey, he's a shapeshifter, just imagine the possibilities)

I'd be interested to see others' lists as well, if for no other reason than to reassure myself that I'm not the only one who lusts after fictional characters...

Limbo rock

How looooow can he go?
via Digby:

Bush honesty rating drops to lowest point

[...]

Only 41 percent give Bush good marks for being “honest and straightforward” — his lowest ranking on this question since he became president. That’s a drop of nine percentage points since January, when a majority (50 percent to 36 percent) indicated that he was honest and straightforward. This finding comes at a time when the Bush administration is battling the perception that its rhetoric doesn’t match the realities in Iraq, and also allegations that chief political adviser Karl Rove leaked sensitive information about a CIA agent to a reporter. (The survey, however, was taken just before these allegations about Rove exploded into the current controversy.)

And oh how the Right has tried to deflect the blame from Rove, forming a veritable human shield around the Turd-blossom, all to no avail:

John Gibson yesterday:

You wouldn't send a peacenik to see if we should go to war, if we need to go to war, now would you? That's exactly what happened, as they say in the news biz, inquiring minds now want to know how the heck did this happen? Well, it turns out little wifey did it.

"Little wifey"? Ok, two things, in this case "little wifey" was also an undercover CIA agent specializing in WMDs who probably knows about 20 different ways to kill a man with a common office stapler. Second, uh yeah actually I would send a "peacenik" to see if we should go to war. If even a "peacenik" sees that there's ample evidence for it you know you've got a damn strong case for going to war. Of course this pre-supposes that one wants to avoid war in the first place, that war is seen as a last resort.

Potter-ly

Just saw my first two real HBP spoilers. One leaves me exceedingly curious, the other pleases me on a higher level than it should.

HP geekery level: Yellow
Level of excitement about tomorrow's release: Just shy of ridiculous