Flaben

I have a little puzzle for you. I’ve been avoiding snacks completely and just eating 3 straight meals in halls. Which has meant for the majority of this week, I’ve had cereal or toast for breakfast, baguette and salad for lunch, and whatever crap there is for dinner. I’ve allowed myself one ‘bad’ thing a day (usually dessert, since I actually like the desserts that are on offer at dinner). Anyway, I went to the gym today and weighed myself. And I’ve lost about 3 lbs (and that’s after over half a litre of water).

BUT (and this is the strange thing)

The jeans that I could fit into easily last year no longer fit.

Strange much?

How can I lose a bit of weight but have the jeans that fitted me when I was about 6 lbs heavier not fit any more?!

*sigh*

Anyway, happy March people!!!

Last night Nika and I made pancakes for tons of people in our hall lol. Simply because we cooked them in a kitchen that a lot of our friends pass. And it was dinner time. We had pancakes instead of dinner, with chocolate spread and banana. Sooo nice. (But kinda ruined my diet. Oh well…).

Today was a pretty productive day. I had no classes, but I got up for breakfast at 8:30, and then did some reading. I was looking at the information for my ‘Selected American Novels’ reading, and we’re supposed to do 80 hours’ reading (that’s from January-May). So I started reading Hemingway’s ‘Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises’, and I now have a new love /end English geekiness

Then I got out of bed again, dressed and walked into Beeston, cashed my cheque from Bravenet, bought some new jeans, went to Sainsbury’s and bought stuff for me and Andy for the weekend. I went to Subway for lunch as well.

I came back to my room, sorted my laundry and washed/dried my clothes. Did some more reading. I also tidied my room, phoned 02 about my new phone again (&%$�$”�”%), but it should be sorted now…

Yeah, my productive day has kind of tailed off now. I was going to go clubbing with Richard and Naomi, but am too tired and didn’t get enough work done today. Still, I’m seeing Richard on Friday because we are going out for his birthday. I cannot wait to see his hair in real life. So I’ll probably write up some more notes tonight, and tick another thing off (my very long) to-do list.

Tonight was ‘Latin Night’ *cough* The kitchen staff translated ‘Latin’ to mean Greek, Italian and Spanish food. Hmmm. There were streamers, alcohol on sale, and various assorted inflatable cacti (do inflatable ones count as bad feng shui????), and a ‘Happy Fiesta!’ sign. We also had dips on the tables, and glass jugs. They really pushed the gondola out for this one :hmm:
There was cheesecake for dessert, which is not really Spanish, Italian or Greek. However, it may have been considered Brazilian as there was also a flag of Brazil.
The climax of the meal was definitely the washer-upper’s sombrero. Nika was chatting to him about hers, which is apparently bigger, although as I pointed out, it’s not the size of your sombrero, it’s what you do with it.

Apparently we’re having a themed night every 5 weeks now.

Perhaps the next one will be an Oriental Night with Welsh food (i.e. sheep).