Go, Aimee!

I am stopping at TJs today to pick up dried mangoes, dark chocolate covered raisins and a bag of their dried cherry/blueberry blend for my post-op hospital snackage. I was told to eat a lot of fiber, so....

Ooh, dried cherries and blueberries together sounds fab.

Yesterday's Ellen show explained Kelly Preston's dress: John Travolta picked it out. No taste!!

ita convinced me to go eat a tangerine. It was good.

It really is helpful having a regular fruit dropoff at this job. They don't even have a candy/snack machine in this place.

I am like Matt wrt dieting. Trying to be moderate just ends up with me not dieting at all. Tthe trick, for me, is finding a way to be extreme enough to fit my psychological needs yet moderate enough to be something I can stick with long enough to get myself in a healthy range. Atkins worked well for me, but DH is convinced it can't possibly be healthy and freaking him out with my diet doesn't help with keeping me focussed. I'm trying something new starting today, actually.

Red peppers are good. Not sure if I've ever had pea pods.

I think pea pods are what I'm calling snap beans. Ditto on the red peppers.

Low-carb works really well for me, but I have to get into the mindset of No White Food Allowed At All. No allowances.

Judging by the scale, I should probably do that.

Shit I Didn't Say: Aw, never mind. It would be much too long a post.

Sugar snap peas: [link]

Snow peas: [link]

I like baby carrots and sliced zucchini [oh, and peapods] for snacky veggies, but I don't eat them in significant quantities. I'll eat them for a couple of days emthuisiastically, go out and byuy a whole binch, and then lose my taste for them. I often rely on a glass of veggie juice to get my daily allowance, which is tasty, and better than nothing nutritionally, but not optimal. I've toyed with the idea of getting those dried Just Veggies to snack on as the not going bad aspect of them appeals to me, but haven't really followed through.

Drive by post

TV Pilot to Screen at JPL

JPLers are invited to join a very exclusive screening of a pilot for what was to have been a new Fox TV series, entitled "Beyond." Produced by Imagine Television (led by Ron Howard and Brian Grazier, also producers of "24" and "Friday Night Lights"), and created by writer David Self ("Road to Perdition"), the series sadly was not picked up by the network. It stands, however, as a great example of how what is both real and mythical about JPL gets reflected in contemporary culture.

Set in a fictional NASA facility known as the Rocket Propulsion Laboratory (but modeled on JPL), "Beyond" focuses on efforts to create and launch space missions in response to animmediate global crisis. In the TV pilot, the brilliant, irascible new head of RPL sends a team of scientists to Alaska to neutralize the effects of a meteorite that's sparking an incurable epidemic. Then things begin to get complicated.

The 45-minute drama will be screened in von Karman Auditorium twice on Wednesday, March 7 at 11 a.m. and again at noon. Following the second screening, executive producers David Self and David Nevens, as well as director Breck Eisner (pictured), will be on hand to answer questions.

That screening is very cool.

Things I didn't say:

• Marina Del Rey? Seriously? To look at my driver's license? Way to go to earn your paycheque.