Timelies all!

Came back from OVFF with Canadian chocolate.(All the guests were Canadian, and some chocolate went into the Interfilk auction.) Aero bubbles and bars!

Holy crap, Anita Sarkeesian is going to be on Colbert tonight! Someone I know is going to meet Stephen Colbert! Wow.

Also, the shitstains who have been harassing her are losing their tiny minds. Apparently they thought Colbert would be on board with death and rape threats?

I took myself to Barnes & Noble for some coffee and book browsing. They were having a sale on DVDs, so I perused those, knowing I'd probably get something but hoping they wouldn't have anything I didn't have that I was willing to pay that much for.

But what to my wondering eyes should appear by Kolchak: the Night Stalker. I still am creeped out by memories of this show. It is the seed from which many wonderful shows came. I started a fic about Kolchak in Sunnydale (only a few paragraphs, darn that real life thing).

Reader, I bought it. And I'm wondering if I have the nerve to watch it and afraid that it will not live up to my memories.

The sample size on vegan diets is, by definition, too small to be meaningful, plus there's always the complicating factor that people who follow vegetarian and vegan diets may have other healthy habits. My take-away from nutrition studies is: eat more vegetables and fruits; eat a wide variety of vegetables and fruits; eat smaller portions of meat; exercise; and *sigh* maintain a healthy weight.

New hairdryer acquired.

Also, broke recent fastest lap average in 18 months AGAIN tonight, beating the one earlier in the week by a full second. Felt the whole time like it was a kinda sluggish pace (fall mild congestion) but apparently not. I don't know why suddenly I'm headed back in the right direction, but I'll take it. Maybe I'll get back under a minute pace by the New Year?

Barnes and Noble for coffee and book browsing is pretty much always a good plan, i think.

It reduces incidence of genital warts by a big percentage, and genital warts are a bummer. Also reduced incidence of HPV-related oral cancers, and I would assume others as well.

Anal cancer as well--more common in gay men, but still.

I scoff at healthy eating. Instead, I will eat the blondies my roommate left on the counter. And wine. Because lo, I had a stressful yesterday and demand some chill. And if it takes minutes off my life, so be it.

Also....potatoes are totally whole grain! Uh, in y'know, the sense that you're not breaking them down into partial-potatoes? Eat the skin! Then you are consuming the whole thing, which is clearly healthy. Surely.

and *sigh* maintain a healthy weight.

I'm not just saying this as an excuse to stay a big fat panda, but -- the article I edited (about whole grains yay), did several multivariable analyses where they controlled for other factors, including BMI, and even the study participants with a high BMI still had a lower mortality risk from eating whole grains.

I'm not saying that to pimp whole grains; I'm just saying that there are other lifestyle factors that can mitigate being a big fat panda. It's nice to know that being fat isn't a hopeless death sentence.

Did y'all know that on How to Get Away With Murder, the guy playing skeevy Frank is Ben/Glory?!?! I did not know that!

It's the beard.

He is? Huh. I would never have guessed.