You can all relax and stop sending me sympathy notes and chicken soup. My advisor (ser?) and I have found each other. We took a brief moment this morning to... reconnect. He is still nice, and was impressed with my lit review, which was gratifying, because the honors committee wasn't. My brain tells me that I should trust a cabal of three wizened and wise scholars over a first-year professor who didn't answer his email for over a month. But my gut tells me to relax and enjoy the ride. My gut is also very hungry...

Actually, my gut isn't hungry at all. Before work today, on the fifth day - I might add - of my self-started Eat Healthy! challenge, I had a small veggie Quiznos sandwich for lunch while waiting for the bus downtown. Finding myself with 17 minutes to kill, I took a stroll through Pike Place Market, and bought doughnuts. Doughnuts! On an Eat Healthy! di... er... challenge! And after lunch!

I have decided to start a Bridget Jones-style food and exercise diary, though. Here is today's. Feel free to skip it.
Breakfast: Trader Joe's high fiber all bran cereal, milk, a banana. I realize how impressive this sounds (well, doesn't it? Doesn't it?) but it was an accident, alas; we were out of sugary stuff.
Lunch: Small Quiznos veggie sandwich, Baked Lay's, Lemonade
Degenerate Extravagance: 4 (rather small) Pike Place donuts
Dinner: Have not yet had, do to noticeable presence of donuts in stomach.

Alcohol units: none
Exercise: none
Cigarettes: none

My! Aren't I doing well?

I'm struggling right now with whether to watch Heroes or 24 tonight. My mother always tells me that all problems can be solved if you evaluate the pros and cons and make the best determination for yourself and your future. So that is what I shall do.

HEROES:
It has Greg Grunberg, my lovable actor pal*
It has an impressive ratio of "meaningful dialogue" versus "things getting blown up and shot at" and "antiterrorist agents making eyes at each other as they ask subordinates to set up parameters."
Although I don't remember the plot from before the break, or why one must save the cheerleader to save the world, I do remember that it was interesting
President Wayne Palmer from 24 is annoying and wimpy. His sister isn't annoying enough to be interesting. Whereas President David Palmer from season 1 was awesome, and his wife Sherry was a full Lady Macbeth-style horror, which was entertaining.

24:
The last episode ended with Los Angeles - SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - being blown up by a nuclear bomb, which is quite the set-up.
Kiefer Sutherland is a total hott tea, and admittedly slightly more attractive than my Hollywood buddy** Mr. Grunberg. From a little background reading on Greg (TV star not Capitol Hill mole), it seems that his major claim to fame is being the best friend of the creator of a show called LOST. Which brings me to my final point...
Heroes is a TINY BIT like lost. In the "sneaky" placement of clues, and web of weird, broody people. Better, of course, but still... 24 is nothing like lost and everything like an hour of Kiefer and friends blowing shit up.

Hrm. It's a toughie. But don't worry, I'll let you know what I decide.

*random guy who shares my name
**possibly incestuous crush

OK. Now I shall cease this post to do some homework (ha, ha). Just as Jews open the door for the prophet Elijah each Passover in the hope that one year he might come in and collect his reserved glass of wine, so shall ye continue to check this blog, believing that in time I shall post something interesting.