So, the election's over, and there's a pretty clear winner. (One of my fears was that it would be some kind of thing close to a 269-269 split, and we'd be subjected to something like 2000/2004 over again, only more protracted and with increased bitter commentary).

NOW I hope the people around me can talk about something else - something non-politics related - for a change.

I will say I didn't know until this morning - remembering previous years and how aggravated I got at the talking heads, I watched Dirty Jobs instead.

I also went to bed early...I guess the one thing the time-change has done to me is that I get tired earlier in the evening.

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I'm not feeling too well this morning. I don't know if it's the impending change in the weather (depending on how fast the front and storms move, I may have to cancel lab this afternoon) or if it's because, while running errands out yesterday, I stopped at a Cracker Barrel for a small dinner...and I got bacon for the first time in six months or so.

I like bacon but perhaps it doesn't like me any more. (One thing I have noticed, as I circle the drain of 40, is that certain fatty foods can no longer be eaten with abandon. Cheese is still OK in small amounts; vegetable fats don't seem to bother me. But fatty meats, mass quantities of eggs, and too much butter - I have to avoid.)

I will say if it is the bacon that is upsetting my stomach, it really wasn't worth it. No restaurant will cook bacon the way I really like it - cooked long enough that all the fat is rendered out, and just this side of burnt, so it's really crispy. This bacon was kind of flabby (not undercooked, just not done crisp enough). I know, I could have sent it back and maybe I should have, but since I didn't specify "I want the bacon crisp" when I ordered it, it just seemed churlish to me to complain, so I blotted the fat off as best I could.


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I've been working on different projects but don't really have anything at a photogenic stage. I picked up a couple of semi-stalled projects (the My So-Called Scarf and a pair of socks from a Trekking yarn) and worked on them some.

I'm also working on the TARDIS as much as I can tolerate to; I'm afraid now I won't have this done before my self-imposed, "Want to take it to my parents' on Thanksgiving, finished" deadline.

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I really need to get back into the practice of working regularly on research; I haven't done much of anything in well over a week. I need to get back to reading journal articles.