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Things are looking up today. I woke up pretty early and went down to the public market for another week's worth of yummy produce. I also ended up getting more flatbread (yay, pizza!) and a tub of hummus. Total cost for everything: $6.75 . I love that market. The only problem with it is the smell of elephant ears/beaver tails/fried dough that permeates the air. Hard to resist. I managed, but only by promising myself a treat from Tim Horton's every time I go out to Wegmans.

After I got home I planned to eat some lunch, chill out for a while, then go do an interval workout on my bike. Well, the weather sort of forced me to chill out for 3 hours. We had about a half hour of torrential rain, and then the sun broke through. I checked at least three weather sites to see if the sun was going to hold. They all disagreed, so I decided to go ride anyway. I got lucky and stayed dry.

When I got home I was incredibly hungry, so I cooked up some dinner (rice, tilapia, salad = yummy) and am now going to rest my legs while watching a movie. I'll probably fall asleep early tonight, that workout has hit me hard.

Classes start on Tuesday. I've had a sneak preview of some of the syllabi and it's going to be intense. I don't think I'm going to want to be going back and forth between school and home, so I'll need to figure out lunches and snacks and things to take with me. I've been doing very well food-wise and I don't want to fall back into bad habits when I get busy. Time to start cooking and freezing things, I think.

Public Market = Yum!

In my continued search for good food, I finally made it down to the Public Market today. It was about the size of the Portland Saturday Market, but replace almost all of the crafty people with food vendors. It was great. There were the typical tables of fresh produce, but also handmade breads, maple syrup, wines, honey, meat and seafood, etc. There were also some little bakeries and restaurants in buildings surrounding the market and a lot of food carts. Apparently in New York elephant ears/beaver tails are just called "fried dough". I spent about $15 and filled my bike baskets to near bursting.

This afternoon the plan is to finish my Protecting Human Subjects in Research homework, which I keep trying to read, but always fall asleep instead. So, I figure if I'm baking muffins while reading the book I have extra encouragement to not fall asleep. I bought myself a muffin tin and ingredients for apple walnut muffins yesterday. We'll see how the plan goes. Chances are I'll just fall asleep anyway and burn the muffins.

I've got big plans for the rest of the weekend too. Blues party tonight, sadly way on the other side of town, and then meeting Mike, the bike shop friend, to go to the Lilac Festival. We're meeting at 2pm, so hopefully I'll be sufficiently recovered from the blues party. It should be a fun weekend.