cheerios and bananas: Hil, if you find out more about the meal thing by mail order, I would be interested too.

In DC, they've got it so that you can pick it up, rather than having it delivered. (Which is a good thing, because at my apartment building, packages get delivered to the front office, and to pick up a package, I need to be there at a time when I can find the super, which doesn't happen terribly often. So packages can sometimes sit there for a week before I get them.) But I am thinking about trying it -- my current diet just is not working.

I've been thinking about trying one of those - other options I've seen are eDiets.com or Seattle Sutton. This one seems more flexible, which could be a plus.

I found it when I was considering NutriSystem, then reconsidered when I saw some pictures of the food. I googled for diet programs that have vegetarian options, and found a bunch of blogs recommending this one.

Oh yeah, someone in my office brought in some of that Nutri-System stuff. Nasty. Seriously disgusting. And it's all canned and dehydrated - looks like this one (and the other two I mentioned) are fresh.

the oil industry may have worsened Katrina's effect: [link]

the oil industry may have worsened Katrina's effect:

I think to Dana, -t or me, that's like saying moisture in the air may have caused it to rain.

I don't mean to be snarky, but that's one of the things they've been warning about for ages.

I understand this. I go back and forth on the I and E too. But I had read somewhere that while these often change, the others rarely do. And I last took the test maybe a month or two ago. It's no big deal, but just seems kind of odd.

As I understand it, your base personality will stay the same, but at different times you may respond to various challenges by dredging up skills and abilities from the alternate preferences. I had this happen to me, once. But the odd Myers-Briggs results came from the time I was taking it for a psychological measurement class, so I got to have a nice long discussion both with the prof who had administered the test and with the head of student counseling who was the local MBTI expert on the topic. At the time, I was sublimating heartbreak into brilliant school work. I traded my usual F for a T. I'm not sure how long it took to get back to my usual preferences, more than a year, maybe but far less than a decade.

I've been trying some of the non-dairy "milks" other than soy milk. Rice milk was OK, but blah. Didn't really like almond milk. Today I bought some oat milk, though, and this stuff is awesome.

Next thing to try: hemp milk.

hemp milk

oh is that what you kids are calling it these days?

Funny thing happened to me this morning. I went to listen to "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" and when I saw who the guest was I excitedly exclaimed, "Oh Brad Bird!"

I heard a deeply concerned but groggy voice from my roommate's bedroom, "Is Brad Bird OK?"

"Oh yeah," I replied, "He's just a guest on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me."

silence

I got up and walked into my roommate's room and he was sound asleep. I must have tapped into his REM sleep at just the right moment.

I like oat milk too.

Although I'm from about as far away from New Orleans as it's possible to be in this country, I've heard quite a bit how oil companies and other industrialization have both made conditions that make the hurricane stronger and weakened the area's ability to withstand or absorb the energy.