Monday, August 6, 2007

Causality Schmalzality

I hot 178 today, a new, 52-week low, and I can;t tell you how I did it. It wasn't exercise. It was so hot this weekend, I stayed in doors, setting up a new computer. It took two days to get old programs to operate woth the new Microsoft Vista. Perhaps all that frustrating keyboard work burned the calories. ?
I didn't eat like a mouse. Saturday, we went to a neighbor's party and I gorged on a dime-thin slice of delicious chocolate cake. Sunday, we went out with some friends. I had the sea bass and a side of breaded zuchinni strips and tomatoes, a romaine salad, and shared some blackberry shortcace for dessert. I also had a quarter-glass of white wine. This was carb abandon for me. Yet when I hit the scale this morning expecting the weight to go up, it went down.
Thank you God for small miracles.
Speaking of mysterious losses, where have all the book and magazine and newspaper readers gone? We have more college grads in the US than any other country at any other time in history; yet patronage of the arts and readership is declining. We've become a nation of slackers, and we'll pay a price for it.

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