eels

No I haven't eaten eels this week. That would have been the healthiest thing I've eaten if it were true. I ate at Zaxby's, Popeye's, Los Arcos (twice!), and Chick-Fil-A this week. Ugh. One night I had a smoothie and popcorn for dinner. That was probably the healthiest dinner I ate all week. blech. Very busy week at work, dogs are getting friskier coz the weather is nicer and my allergies are kicking in something fierce. Yard work is kicking my butt this weekend but I also managed to take down my old, sparky fan in my living room and buy a new one. I found a giant dead roach in the fan so that may have been what was causing the sparks. Also, gross.

Eels refers to the band headed by Mark Oliver Everett. I just watched the documentary Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives in which he got to explore his quantum physicist father's past professional life after not really knowing much about him while he was alive. His dad died when he was 18 or 19 and wasn't the most communicative of people. Apparently his dad was a super genius in the world of quantum physics and came up with the Many Worlds theory which, even after watching the documentary which gave the most basic, layperson way to explain it, I still can't paraphrase. Anyway, it was very interesting and he seemed like a cool guy so I looked him up and bought his book on line, Things the Grandchildren Should Know. Aside from his dad dying when he was young, his older sister committed suicide not long after their father died and their mother died of cancer around the same time. One of his cousins, a flight attendant, died in the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon. He was buddies with Elliott Smith. But he has an interesting perspective on it all. Any one of these things would have killed me. I will probably die a long slow death from bad cholesterol. If I'm lucky.