Done:

• Slept from ~0000h to 0630h (~ 6.5 hrs)
• Couldn’t go back to sleep.  Hopefully it’ll be an early night tonight.
• Responding to mathmeth
• Breakfast
• Chat with Janine
• Played through Weber and now  Così
• Observation:  I’ve found it difficult to make the sigh-fermatas in  Il core vi dono  effective on the piano, because they really need to end with a slight sigh-push-breath of intensity that is only possible with voice and strings!  So to emulate that on the piano I really need to let the singers lead into those beats, and delay my attack ever so slightly on the piano to give the illusion of crescendo.
• Played through Arpeggione — oh my puppies
• Terina and Carol
• Shopping  (lettuce, celery, red onion, horseradish, roast beef, grapes, 90% Lindt chocolate)
• Lunch
• Listened, played, read — though I probably should have read more.
• Chatting with Josh Greene
• TV and Tiny Wings

Breakfast:

• 2 pork bellies, 1 egg
• Bit of green pepper
• 1 spoon yogurt, berries
• Espresso

Commentary before lunch:

I considered going to Sookk so I could sit and peruse my scores, but the thought of having Sookk again bored me.  Instead I went shopping and came home for lunch.

It is interesting how food habits can change.  For example, the other day after my workout in the park, I felt it would be too late to buy and cook food, so I decided to eat out.  Just a month ago, after a full day of work and working out I would have craved something salty like nachos.  The idea crossed my mind, but now nachos didn’t seem like they’d be satisfying.  I didn’t have to reject the idea, it just didn’t appeal to me.  (That was the night I went to Sookk and had that unpleasant noodle experience!)

It is nice to see habits change for variety’s sake, rather than for the sake of purging  “bad”  habits.

Lunch:

• 4 half-pieces of unsalted roast beef wrapped in lettuce with horseradish
• a tomato
• a handful of dark red grapes
• Salad  (spinach, arugula, broccoli, basil, celery, orange pepper, red onion, olive oil)

Snack:

• Half a square of chocolate  (90% is great!)
• Tea with a bit of milk

Dinner (scrapings!):

• Grapes and berries
• A few florets of broccoli
• Leftover chicken + broccoli + onion
• A tiny rib
• An artichoke
• A few more grapes

After dinner:

• I wonder what about a tablespoon of Black Label tastes like with a cup of melted ice... hm... not bad...
• 2 splashes Black Label
• cashews
• 1 square chocolate
• roast beef
• grapes
• green pepper