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  • Day Nine: Inertia Sets In

    Raina Kelley | Aug 30, 2007 05:18 PM

    Breakfast: Kashi cereal with soy milk.

    Lunch: Two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (I have got to stop eating those!), 1 plum, 1 peach, Some organic raspberry organic yogurt.

    Dinner: Sautéed string beans with brown rice (and too much soy sauce).

    Cravings: Take-out Chinese!

    Mood: Impossible to tell--I’ve had a sinus headache for about 30 hours.

    Some of my co-workers are driving me absolutely batty! They will not lay off all that “Are you following all the rules?” stuff. And I swear, if one more person asks me if I can eat a peach or a nacho chip or drink WATER, then I am going to need a defense attorney. My boss is real sweet though; she brings me local and organic fruit just about every day. And she’s totally cool about the turning off the monitor thing--turns out she doesn’t really care if I step away from my desk as long as the work gets done. Of course, I wonder whether the fruit thing will come up in my evaluation and if so, how? Maybe she’ll say; “Can we give Raina a big fat raise so she can buy her own local and organic peaches?” But the ever-present paranoid part of me thinks it’ll come down to something like this: “I supported Raina with local and organic fruit during her Freegan experiment. Now I feel like she still expects it and it’s making me uncomfortable. I say just go ahead and fire her!” See, so now I’ve put my fears in the blog and she’ll have to find another reason to fire me if she’s so inclined!

    I’m going to apologize in advance for today’s entry. It’s sure to come across as scattered and pointless because I HAVE HAD A SINUS HEADACHE FOR 30 STRAIGHT HOURS. I don’t know what I’m allergic to; but it is kicking my butt!So, gentle readers, if you have any experience with sinus headaches and know of any home remedies, I would be most appreciative because at this point, there’s a good chance tomorrow’s blog will be about 1000 words of this; “uyhjnnnnnnnnnn;” which is what you get when you rest your forehead on the keyboard.

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