I’m at home for the rest of the week, on Spring Break. (That name is bitterly humorous, considering my current physical condition.) It’s raining cats and dogs and sheep outside. I’m bored. So, without further ado, a follow-on to my previous post.

For those of you with an academic bent, I’d like to point out that ‘Black Sheep‘ is the latest in a long and illustrious line of scary movies about unscary monsters.

Below are some that come immediately to my mind. If anybody knows of others, I’ll add them to this post in an edit.

The Grand-daddy of them all was Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds‘. Things went downhill after that….

We have had ‘Frogs‘:

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I’m never dieting again. I’m sick of it. (Okay, I’ll probably diet again, never say never) but having lost and gained a bunch over the last ten years, I’m just over it.

None-the-less, I think perhaps my dietary habits are, well, not the greatest. So two weeks ago I announced that for five nights we were going to eat healthy. Not count calories, not follow some weird set of rules and restrictions about carbs or fats or anything like that. And if we were hungry, we would eat more. In fact, I announced, I was going to try to eat healthy for five days. And by healthy, I meant I could have as much good food like lean meats, vegetables, fruits and whole grains as I wanted. If I wanted a slice of havarti and an apple for a snack, I would. But if the food struck me as more empty calories than nutritional, I wouldn’t eat it. And that on Saturday, I could fall face first into a breakfast taco if I so desired.

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