Mik

Oh. Forgot to mention that. 11 pounds.

Sorry for the lack of updates. I made it through Tuesday no problems... so first 60 hours or so were ok. Wednesday was rough. I was tired, dizzy when I stood up too fast, felt lethargic all day... started craving food. Today I made it to lunch... or about 84 hours in when I gave up. It was just too much. I could barely move this morning and I felt terrible. It felt so good to eat. No puking or anything crazy like that. I had absolutely no desire to keep going, though. It drained the life out of me. Oh well. I gave it a shot and 84 hours isn't terrible.

Well, we've still got The Wire.

The editing of the video and House's interview right after they found the lime disease were both incredible. I though this was the last episode they had. I'm glad there are more.

12/12 WEC card is stacked. * Champ Urijah Faber vs. Jeff Curran (for featherweight title) * Champ Paulo Filho vs. TBA (for middleweight title) * Champ Doug Marshall vs. Ariel Gandulla (for light heavyweight title) * Jens Pulver vs. Cub Swanson * Chance Farrar vs. Micah Miller * Brian Bowles vs. Marcos Galvao * Dominick Cruz vs. Charlie Valencia * Bryan Baker vs. Eric Schambari * Todd Moore vs. Luis Sapo Faber and Filho on the same card? Sweet.

That was a great ending to a fucking amazing season. I was watching the end with my hands over my face because I was waiting to see how Larry was going to fuck it up with Loretta, but then he didn't. Great, great ending...especially her getting in Suzy's face. And the second to last episode with Larry trying to get Cheryl back and the dueling psychiatrists was an all-time great episode. Best season since 2... maybe even 1. Amazing, amazing. And Leon is pretty much the greatest thing ever.

Yeah there is a difference. I did a week long starvation experiment where we had regulated amounts of calories per meal (so I was eating regularly but it was like 3 saltines and 6 oz. of OJ for breakfast stuff) and the first day I was doing pretty good, you'll hit a hard stretch around day 3, but after that your body should get used to it's new caloric intake and you'll get sort of a release from (or you'll just ignore it better) the pain. Although won't this just mean your body will take the weight back on fast since you are telling your body that there is no food and it'll convert all food into fat cells for the next time you go into a famine? I'll frequently forget to eat for 24 hour periods or a weekend or something depending on what I'm doing. No - it's just a week. There will be no long term changes to my metabolism. It might be slightly lower for a week or two, but it will return to normal. In terms of pains, oh, no not even close. My stomach isn't even growling. I was just using a euphemism for the feeling of hunger... not actual hunger pains.

Going until Thanksgiving and breaking the fast with a meal like that would wreak havoc on my body. As for today, well it's been about 16 hours since I last ate and I'm a bit hungry now. I haven't been all day, even though people made it a point to eat in front of me. It's very easy to hold out from eating at work, because I'm really busy. Now that I'm home and with some free time... it's probably going to be harder. But I'm still feeling great and although I have some slight hunger pains, they are not a distraction. I'm feeling about as good as I can be about this after 3/4 a day.

I disagree about last year's Chuck/Tito having a weak undercard. It had Bisping, Arlovski, and Forrest Griffin. This card, in terms of name value, has nothing besides the top two. It also has a bunch of guys coming off long layoffs and in the case of Guillard, suspensions for drugs. I'm torn on the main event. I like Serra better than Hughes, but I'd love to see GSP dismantle Hughes again.

I saw this last night. It was good, but it was also very depressing.

When I was touring Australia they told us that they are very rare but if you see one it's probably already too late. I'm not sure how much they pumped that up to fuck with us... My god, what a horrible way to die.

Kanye West's mom died. Rumor is it was during plastic surgery. Sucks, but I wonder what kind of blowup this is going to result in.

I really liked Riley's Way and also the Harry Potter skit ruled all.

So much for last week's subtitle.

I just watched the fight on DailyMotion... it did seem a bit quick. Hopefully he gets less of a can in his next fight. He probably would get murdered by someone good right now but it would be nice to see what he can at least do against someone with marginal talent.

Ryan Adams: 1. Gold 2. Heartbreaker 3. Cold Roses 4. Easy Tiger 5. Follow the Lights EP 6. Demolition 7. Rock N' Roll 8. Jacksonville City Nights 9. Love is Hell 10. 29

Some Loud Thunder grows on you. But no, it's not nearly as good.

The Office fired over 100 people today. I bet they all love their writers now.

This one is MUCH better.

Pretty sure Swick is injured. I know he's playing a fair bit of poker because I've taken him to school on Full Tilt quite a few times.

Does Vince Vaughn have to say "let's make bad decisions" in some variation in every single fucking movie he makes? It's irritating.

Ok, this is definitely on. Another girl in my lab is going to do all-liquid, which I think sucks, because at first she said she would do it with me. I'd have loved to see the differences in a 115 lb. girl and 225 lb. man. Oh well.

I just got an HDTV about a month ago and honestly it was worth every penny. Sports, my favorite TV shows, they all are just that much better. It's especially GREAT for sports.

Well, I wasn't really convinced. It was more of a progression from an argument into a challenge and I accepted because I know I'm right and I want to prove it. First of all - I said that I wanted to prove I can do it, and the people who I work with said that I wouldn't last a day (I'm a free food bandit.) But we are all scientists and we argued over how much weight a one week fast would cause you to lose. And someone said... "well, I guess we'll never know." So, put those two things together and I started running my mouth saying that I can do it no problem (oops)... and there you have it. Some of the comments in this thread kinda worry me a bit, but I'm still going for it.

Fuck. That's not what I wanted to hear.