Slim Fast Update and awesome friends.

I did ok yesterday,

Cheated a little bit, but being called into work early doesn't help me. I had no time to pack any cereal bars into my bag and I'd been working for 6 hours and had had nothing to eat since that minging shake. So... 2 slices of foccacia and a quarter of a muffin, those were sins. I did well otherwise, I usually graze a lot at work (a problem of working with food) so I'm altogether quite pleased with myself.

I have had a yogurt bar for breakfast, and have a strawberry milkshake cooling in the fridge for me later.

How banal... but writing about it helps me, I feel if I have to publish it in my blog, then I'll be disinclined to cheat, because it would mean lying to things other than myself and writing that slice of cake down provokes enough shame to make me not want to do it tomorrow. Makes sense? kaythanks.

In other news. My friend Claire is the best person ever, she just got back from New York (having been delayed for about 6 days due to the volcanic eruption) and has been promising me an amazing present since she got there. To let you understand, about 2 weeks before she left, I had looked up John Green's tour dates, and to my utter excitement, Claire would be in the city when he was. I told her immediately, and she was almost as excited as I was (which is testament to my love of John Green, because I wasn't even going to New York, I was just excited that she'd get to meet him). I few days later, she let me down gently, her itinerary for the trip was too overloaded, she wouldn't be going to see John. I have to confess... I was heartbroken. What person in their right mind wouldn't grab the chance to see John Green?! I even resented her a little... there! I said it!.

So she sends me updates of New York, it sounds amazing, I'm going as soon as I have money to. And promises of an even more awesome present than a signed copy of Will Grayson Will Grayson . Difficult to fathom, I know, but I was intrigued.

Last night I was doing the essential flipping through of Claire's trip buddy, Kat's pictures on facebook, and I come across one picture of Kat, holding a signed copy of David Levithan's, Nick and Norah's infinite playlist. Two emotions corssed my mind.... 1. "Ohwaitasecond... they went anyway?! boo claire.... just boo" and 2. "OMGEEE they WENT... and saw John and OMGEEE". I commented right away, and suddenly Claire IMs me.

"Kat wasted it!"

As it turns out, Claire went to great lengths to surprise me, ever since I told her about the signing, so as of Monday I will be the proud owner of a signed by John freaking Green copy of Will Grayson Will Grayson. How stoked am I?!

So yes.... this is why I have great friends. And also why I missed Claire terribly while she was in New York, she's amazing.