ita, that nutritionist sounds odd. I had a lovely holistic nutrionist lady here, too bad you can't use her. OH! and on the idea of food making one ill, a friend was just diagnosed with ciliac(sp?) and was told taht getting it under control would increase his ability to gain weight, would reduce/end his migrains - and so I thought of you. I tend to had people making the "my friend had this, so you do too" jump, but it might be something to look into.

IIRC, Deena's Nick has ciliac, so if you decide to go that route, she might be a source of advice.

The thought of ita with no wheat makes me even sadder than the thought of ita with no chocolate.

Oh! Speaking of Carl Weathers, I had what, to me, is the fucking awesomest celebrity sighting this evening-- even though I should be seeing this person fairly frequently-- I saw Will Arnett at Staples. I did not squeal. I pretended to be obsessing over my choice of label maker. Bob says he seemed to be in a bad mood-- not surprising, I guess.

Huh. Totally not dead. I wonder why I thought he was.

The thought of ita with no wheat makes me even sadder than the thought of ita with no chocolate.

Me too! He told me to drop gluten and dairy. I told him I could lose the dairy, but I had hard-dough bread in my fridge, and I needed to eat it all first.

Right now, I'm so @@ about the iridology, that I want to ignore him entirely. But some of his stuff did makes sense.

Celiac? From looking at a quick google, since he thought it was okay I keep eating spelt and rye, I don't think he suspected that.

TiVo grabbed me SCTV. Wasn't funny. Grabbed me Monty Python. Funny.

::goes to google Will Arnett::

eta: ::returns, cackling::

I made blueberry muffins, but I forgot to add the blueberries. Possibly this indicates that I might need more sleep or something.

Not least because an illiterate 14 year old will have a much harder time learning to read than an illiterate person of younger age. The reason you go to school at a tender age is so that civilization can print all its little keys into your tender soap-bar. There's also the part where it's got to be pretty humiliating, trying to learn to read as an adult and realizing that second graders might have more mastery than you.

The Lockean idea of the Noble Savage doesn't seem as noble when being mocked by 8 year olds, does it?

I understand the concept that some children learn on their own and that some young children do, in fact, teach themselves to read. But I wouldn't trust that to chance for some hippy, granola idea that I'd be ruining my kid by pushing them to read before they hit puberty.

"I ain't got time to bleed."

I came this close to quoting that initially because it is one of DH's favorite movie lines ever. Along with, "I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum."

You just think L&O is cool because you've not seen "The Wire" yet. But my mother will not allow me to watch L&O with her now because I ruin it.

Like this: "Oh, right, like they'd have the warrant that fast. In Disneyland, maybe."

"David Simon says they only find the gun in 30 percent of Baltimore murders...that piece would be in the East River so fast.."
Et fucking cetera. But she loves me anyway, even if I tell her Emperor Dick Wolf is naked. ETA: However, krav has not been featured on the Wire yet. It has been on KOTH and Malcolm in The Middle, though.

You just think L&O is cool because you've not seen "The Wire" yet.

Hey, I said krav was cool, not L&O. They put The Wire on my screen when I'm sitting around on Saturday night wanting to veg on the couch, I'll be right there.