Pictures and Words

Hello! My name is Peter C. Hayward, and for the month of February, everything that I eat has to be paid for from twenty-eight dollars. No, you can’t offer me left-overs. Please people, stop offering me left-overs. I can’t eat them. It’s against the rules.

I hope I do not die!

70.1kg - 0.7kg down from yesterday.

I’ve had the same weight (70.8kg) for two days now, so this loss is not surprising. It’s the second-biggest one-day loss so far; between days 3 and 4, I lost 0.8kg, but then I gained back 0.4 the next day.

These are probably my favourite boxers.

If you go back and directly compare to the Initial Weigh-in, you can see a distinct difference – my knees don’t face each other any more, I’ve got slightly more stubble, and I have considerably less stomach. I’ve lost about three kilograms in 11 days, which I don’t think is drastically unhealthy, but I still wouldn’t recommend this diet to anyone. (unless, of course, you want to blog about it.)

I got to bed at about 2am last night, and slept for 11 hours, which is why you’re getting this post mid-afternoon. I was waiting for a tape to copy, and watching Weird Science - the John Hughes movie from 1985.

I’ve owned Weird Science for a bit over a year now; I bought it in a three-pack with Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club (how the hell did John Hughes create this film and The Breakfast Club in the same year? I can’t imagine two more wildly different teen films.) but I’d never watched it because I assumed it was just another teen romantic comedy, nerd falls for a cheerleader, there’s conflict, they eventually get together, etc etc.

Yesterday, I randomly came across a snippet of a conversation – “What’s that John Hughes film where two geeks create the perfect girl?”

If someone had mentioned that the plot of Weird Science involved nerds creating a girl on a computer, I would have been all over it years ago! I love dodgy teen science-fiction movies from the 80s – films where a guy accidentally gets his mind transferred into a dog’s body, or creates a machine in his back yard that makes him twenty years older, so that he can make his teacher fall in love with him…

You know the sort of film I’m talking about.

I only got about halfway through Weird Science before I had to go to bed, but I wasn’t disappointed! My favourite part was when they scanned in a photo of Albert Einstein, and the computer managed to extract an image of his brain from that, and duplicate his intelligence. That, ladies and gentlemen, is science!

Dreams.

I had about 5 dreams about improvised theatre last night – there were two entire long-form shows, of an hour each, which I could tell you the entire plot of (I won’t) and then I was filming some impro, and was invited to the afterparty.

At the afterparty, I was offered some cake by someone with a huge grin on their face. I had no idea why they were grinning, so I suspiciously took some cake and tasted it – it was delicious. They (and my cousin, who was with me at the time) looked at me with absolute shock. It took me a few minutes to work out why…the project! 28 Days, 28 Dollars - I’d accidentally screwed up, just for a sample of some cake!

I felt like an absolute idiot.

Now that I’m awake, I’ve realised that in my dream, other people remembered the project but I didn’t. What the hell, subconscious? Why were other people smarter than me in my own dream? Ridiculous.

Today (well, tonight) I’m going around to a friend’s house for Dungeons and Dragons – we do this every three weeks, and provide dinner on a rotating schedule. This week, it’s my turn, so I’m going to be paying more than $28 on food just today, but I won’t be eating any of it.

When I get home, I’m going to be up all night, catching up on work. The “Daily Food Post” will probably be written/posted around 4am.

Tonight: (or tomorrow morning) Daily Food Post!

(total money spent so far – $21.41)