My issue is that I often don't have lunch (my lunch break is 35 minutes -- by the time I get students out and to be back in my room it's closer to 20 minutes) so at 3:00 I am famished.

Oh, that is no good.

I can take my lunch whenever I like, I am just indecisive about it. Also torn between wanting to eat at the same time every day and shifting everything earlier on the days I start working earlier.

I eat ridiculously early in the AM. But I feel like I do everything ridiculously early -- workout, get iced tea, buy gas. All before 6:00 AM.

I often skip dinner and eat lunch anywhere between 12 and 2. I am really not great about routine. it's been one of my biggest struggles as a parents and low-level employee.

I usually don't eat dinner until after swim, which is 7/7:30 (which I really don't want to talk about tonight. Felt fine but personal worst ever.) Even on weekends, where I'm home by 6:30, I don't. Breakfast, I don't really do, but start snacking around 4 hours after I get up. Try to eat something protein-y or at least stomach-tiding after noon sometime, then generally fruit snacking until I swim.

Trying to do better snacks. This winter, with less fruit from the market (I got tired of apples this year) it's been a struggle. For a while, I was doing plain greek yogurt with various jams and stuff, but the dairy was making me way too snotty. Clementines and bananas aren't filling enough and I was overdoing granola bars and puffed flavored corn and rice things. I swapped for carrots (crunch seems to be a crucial factor for me) and got a mess of hummus and a spinach and kale yogurt dip I like, so we're gonna work on that. It wasn't that it was total crap, it just wasn't holding me and adding some digestive excitement I could do without.

Devi's swelling is worse today (the puffiness extends to the inner top eyelid, changing the shape of her eye,) but she's oblivious to it. And snorts like a pig all the time. Her eating is SO noisy. As Maria told me last night, she's probably going to hang on out of sheer bitchiness.

As it turns out, napping from mid-morning until 1:30 was a good thing, as it gave me the energy to do/hang up four loads of laundry, clean the living room, straighten the bedroom, and take out the trash (alas, energy wore off before bathroom scrubbing could begin). And cooking lunch at home due to the late hour meant I could spend more $ on tasty sushi tonight guilt-free.

I'm glad I could be productive today; tomorrow I stay with Dad while Mom goes to visit an elderly cousin in Memphis, and I'm not going to have any gumption left after several hours melting in the Sauna House.

Man, I gotta have breakfast or I can't function. Meals become less crucial later in the day. I could probably have way less for dinner, but that's when I have time to cook and I like making an actual meal.

I'm thinking about cutting out my pre-work coffee, since I always fix myself a cup as soon as I get into the office. Having my travel mug to hand and ready for sippage seems to be an important component to sitting at a desk. I've noticed that at home a cup of tea or coffee is usually gone in 10-15 minutes, but at work I can sip on a cup for a couple of hours, I'm not sure what that's about. Anyway, cutting out the home coffee would also cut way down on my cream consumption since I drink my hot beverages unadulterated at work, which would probably be good for me nutritionally but would make getting the cream consumed before it goes off more of a challenge than it already is.

I really can't eat first thing. I can do coffee and juice, but putting actual food in my stomach makes it churn unhappily.

It's funny -- I can't have a big dinner or I can't sleep.

Why won't my dryer buzz at the end of the cycle? It does this sometimes, at random. Annoying.