I would love to do a British book tour but it doesn’t look like it’s in the cards for me. Bummer, though, I love the UK.

For lunch I had leftover Christmas pasta (spinach, tomato, italian sausage, and bowties).

I can’t wait to pick up a copy of Ash.

I think sports teams ought to have feminine names, and then they should put “gentlemen” in front of them.

For example, at the University of Illinois, there has been a dispute for many years about the mascot being an American Indian “chief.” My idea is to change the mascot to the endangered, locally indigenous, “Prairie Chickens” and to call the men’s teams, “the Gentlemen Chickens.”

If they’re so great at basketball, their egos should be able to handle that, right?

My high school mascot was the knight. I played soccer my junior year (after being cut my freshman year and being too cranky about it to try out the next year even though the coach that cut me wasn’t coaching that year) and we were the lady knights. Because putting lady in front of it makes it any better… My freshman year rec soccer team was the Strikers. I was mostly a band geek though. At least the band won stuff. My high school’s sports teams generally sucked. We bandos had to stand until the football team got a point. There were several games we spent standing.

I’ll tell you about lunch and dinner yesterday, but both of my last two meals were frozen and prepackaged before I ate them. Dinner was frozen pizza, it was chicken, spinach and mushrooms with a white base, and lunch was szechuan chicken, but it wasn’t very good. I’m looking forward to going to the kitchen and eating some vanilla almond granola when I get done with this post.