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Things that have happened the past few days and are going to happen today

On June 5, 2005, I was making my first attempt at the No S Diet. It didn’t last long, but that day I took a picture of myself — a “before” picture, if you will. So two days ago, I decided to repeat the process to show how I’ve been doing after 7 months on No S. The difference in the photos is pretty startling. In fact, it’s so startling that I won’t even show you. I can’t believe I had all that weight to lose (about 25 lbs.). It’s also hard to imagine that I was so chunky only a year ago. I don’t remember myself being that fat. Even now I don’t feel like I’ve lost a tremendous amount of weight; I pretty much feel like I did before, except a little more satisfied because I can (sort of) control my appetite.

Since I’m getting into lucid dreaming, I remembered that my sister has a book on the subject. I’ve started reading that. Well, since I’m just beginning, I’ve stopped at the part that says you need to write down your dreams so that you start remembering all of them. So I went and bought a small notebook yesterday to record my dreams. Unfortunately, I don’t think I remembered any of the dreams I had last night, at least not immediately as I woke up. But a few moments later, a dreamlike scenario entered my head. After agonizing over whether I should write it down (what if it wasn’t a dream?) I went ahead and wrote it down anyway. I don’t think I could have just made it up right then.

In a repeat of January’s excursion, Lisa, Kevin, my sister, and I are going on a trip to Miami today. Well, if it were a true repeat of that trip, we would have already left because we did spend the whole day there last time. Today, however, we’re leaving in the early afternoon. Once again, we’re making the best possible use of public transportation by using the Tri-Rail, the Metrorail, and the ultra-cool (and free) Metromover. I don’t know exactly what we’ll do. We’ll probably just walk around the downtown area and stuff like that. There might be shopping involved. But if we get a chance, I want to see the first Burger King if it’s still there. (So I’m a glutton…)

Apparently a professor at the University of Miami is a descendant of Genghis Khan. It makes me wonder if I’m related to any historical brutes.

1 man + 1 cello + 37 tracks = A Cello Rondo (YouTube video), a song consisting of entirely of 37 cello parts, which include percussion.