I wonder if things will happen.

It's always interested me how when people don't have a watch, they ask, "Do you have the time?" It's a polite thing to say, but I always want to say something like, "Time for what?" or "No, do you?" Think about it, and it's a lot stupider than calling a friend's house and asking if she's home.

I went on the famine mostly so I could feel what it's like to go to bed hungry. I've realized, however, just how different the 30 Hour Famine would be from actual famine, starving. WE know that at the end of the thirty hours we can sit down and eat a big breakfast, but there's no hopeful promise of relief on the horizon for people who don't have anything to eat. Going to bed with an empty stomach is much easier knowing that any headache or stomachache is temporary and nothing more.

That might be part of the reason I haven't actually been hungry today. I had one fifty-second episode of stomach pain, and that was it. It's a good thing I missed gym though. Aside from not being able to hand in my late pass and a slowly dwindling Clan, today has been a really good day. The only really sad part was that today was Janie's last day (nanny for my family+sibs who's been with us nearly fourteen years), and that still has not sunk in. I'm not entirely sure what we'll do without her, but I think I should move upstairs and just get that worked out.

posted by Eilinn MacCallum 2006-04-28

Exaltation, to be.