That was incredible. We first went to the local health-food supermarket, and she showed me the sane way to eat a healthy diet that's still gourmet. Like Debb, she's careful what she eats, and counts calories, but unlike Debb, she does it right, enjoys food and maintains a healthy weight, able to scoot it a few pounds up or down as she wants. We had really good conversation about the field she's in, food, social psychology, and a number of other things. She's an incredibly good cook, and showed me how to cook tofu and other foods into a very tasty, healthy dinner. As much as it irritates me to drive, I might brave the trip to Whole Foods more often to get ingredients. I got a chunk of Soy with some curry spices mixed in that promises to be good, some more Saag Paneer, some Chaumes, and other tasty things.

I keep thinking about trying to go back to eating meat, and I don't think it's going to happen -- I can eat pretty well the way I am now; if I eat enough soy, I'll sustain myself, and with enough protein, I can even presumably build muscle and get into shape, in time. I think partly I've just had the stereotypical attitude problem that geeks have, an anti-health attitude that was dumb. I'm free of that now, and I'm now free to indulge the .. yes, the pleasures of a more healthy life.. I once enjoyed running. I think I'm starting to enjoy it again. Paradoxically, the very thing that cured me of the attitude problem was keeping me from enacting the changes in my life to the extent that I wanted, but I've emerged from that, and I'm cleared of all that stagnant set of ideas. It's kind of funny -- I can actually see and fully understand, given the way I used to think, that my typical geek dislike of exercise actually stemmed from something entirely different -- my inability to accept a fact about myself that I've long sinced learned to accept, actually thanks to Martha. So, as much as other aspects of me were twisted and hurt by aspects of my first and second chosen, I owe both Debb and Martha a lot for untangling two aspects of my psyche that were making my life less good than it can be. I find myself wondering if there are other similar entanglements that I have yet to be cured of. I guess I'm going to need to think about that for awhile.

Oh, today at work, the entire Computer Science network went down for quite some time. As I got impatient and left for home, I saw an unusual number of geeks walking the halls of the buildings. Some of them looked like they really didn't leave their offices very often. Yeh, we're a strange lot.