I love this picture. John looks like he really likes me. I was playing with settings on my camera and found the sepia filter. He's in Colorado right now and I miss him. I haven't felt anyone's absence like this since...well, since a long time. I think it's good. I wasn't sure I could love this deeply, and uncertainty made me question it, but I do love him, very much.



I'm testing for another vegan cookbook. I think that officially makes me a badass (not really, but a girl can think muchly of herself, can't she?). Isa & Terry's cookie book is nearing completion and should come out sometime in November. I hope you'll all buy a copy.

Was feeling really healthy this week, all the biking and running and aggressively trying to eat better has made my legs quite sexy and as I walked to the store in my jean cutoffs to buy soup ingredients yesterday, I turned more than one head. Then I ruined it when I came home tonight and made a small batch of guacamole and devoured it all with broken stale tostada shells and organic carrots. SMALL I SAY! It only used 1 avo, like a tablespoon of vegan sour cream, juice of 1 lime, and some chipotle salsa. NOM. Made up for it by having a dinner of asparagus, cucumbers, grapes, and leftover brown rice. The asparagus had Vegenaise all over it, of course. FUCK YOU! I eat what I want to!

I really like The Shins.

Le Sigh

It seems like the stretch between February and the end of May is always the hardest part of the year for me. It's being exacerbated now by some of the side-effects of coming off the BC pill (moodswings, cramps, bloating, headaches, freaking BREAST TENDERNESS, which I've never had before, and no before you ask I'm not pregnant).

John is in Berkeley right now checking out the law school and such (he got accepted and they're throwing fat stacks of money at him, it's a sure-thing we're moving in August). I miss him a lot. It's a portent of how hard it's going to be while we're apart during my stint in D-land (which I bought my ticket for, incidentally: arriving in D-Land June 21 and coming home July 25). But then at least I'll be busy instead of bumming around my apartment while it pisses rain outside and I ignore the huge pile of dishes in my sink.

But all is not lost. I have Death at a Funeral on DVD, and I made GRUB sweet and sour tofu, and I have chocolate, and tomorrow (if the weather doesn't suck) after I do my homework I'm going to go down to the first farmer's market of the season.

IDK my VFF?

My Vegan Freak forums have been down all day for maintenance. This makes me sad.

HOWEVER, it is probably why I was so productive today. I spent 8 hours in the library and I got my entire anthropology paper done and started brainstorming for German (which is due tomorrow at 4pm). Yay productivity! Also the boy brought me lunch, and it was really tasty.