Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Talking on the phone to the Sheepie, she veered into one of her recurring criticisms of my diet (Sheepies are emphatically not vegetarian). She said, "We were meant to be omnivores! These claws! These teeth!"

My first thought in reaction was, "I don't know about that; most people's claws aren't all that strong ..." But then the double-irony hit me: my nails are claw-strong. But I'm still not going to switch to hunting my food (or eating the sort of food to which the verb "hunt" applies in that sense, with the possible exception of wild mushrooms[1]) just because I'm actually equipped to do so.

(She's also informing me about differences between digestive systems of people of Mediterranean descent and folks of other ancestry. I wondered whether I'd inherited more of my mother's genes or my father's in that regard. Er ... until tonight I'd had no idea that there were any negatives to (large quantities of) olive oil other than the calories. I guess that means my digestive system is mostly inherited from my mother.)

[1] The top of the food chain[2], when they're nourished by the corpses of carnivores, as I explained to the friend who said, "I didn't sleep my way to the top of the food chain to eat vegetarians."

[2] Yes, I know this sort of thing is why they call it a "web" instead of a "chain" nowadays. Shhh. You're spoiling us fogeys' jokes.

"You don't object to the fact that suddenly four people have developed superpowers and that one is currently changing into a giant rock creature, but the idea of a BMI indicator attached to a patient is causing a suspension of belief?" -- kicktothehead's sister (as quoted in a comment 2007-03-25)

... and how slowly I was thinking compared to how quickly the day seems to be disappearing out from under me.

•  +: ∃ progress re: car.
•  +: ∃ possibility of short term transportation solution.
•  -: too little sleep, woken by loud noises too early, feeling too out-of-it/scattered/fuzz-brained to deal with nessecary phone calls; punting coping until tomorrow.
•  +: got answers to questions I had re: form I was stuck on filling out; will be able to mail that tomorrow.
•  -: car is (unsurprisingly) almost certainly totalled, more by age & mileage (also unsurprisingly) than by amount of damage. Awaiting official word; need to get repair est.
•  +: corn muffins from mix in a box are yummy with red pepper flakes added to the batter.
•  +: even this sleep-dep-addled, PHP docs re: MySQL hooks make db access look even easier than what I'd done earlier.
•  +: ∃ earplugs.
•  -: I need to use aforementioned earplugs.
•  -: No Heroes tonight.
•  +: No temptation to watch telly instead of sleeping.^[1]
•  +: ∃ "∃" char in HTML (∃) for me to [ab]use.
•  =: I'm babbling on LJ & probably not making much sense. Naptime.

[1] I haven't seen any episodes of 24 this season; it's piling up on videocassettes to watch later. So no temptation to jump into middle of story tonight.