Post Fast: The Observations

Now that I'm not shooting intensively or editing intensively, things have slowed back to normal. "Normal" is spending the majority of my days multi-tasking. It is amazing to have a bit of distance to sit back and watch the mind, the keyboard, the telephone, the cel, doing about fourteen things at once. Multi-tasking. Something I was doing without thinking that is both effective and crazy making. It feeds distraction and lack of attention span, so its good, I think to mix it up with periods of intense concentration.

Wine. I adore it. It makes me sleepy and dehydrated. But I love it. Salt! Salt is bad, I can feel its effects immediately. Dries you right out and is habitual, not necessary if your ingredients taste good on their own. I can now taste when things are old and not made with care, and I don't want to put that in my body. Nibbling on Arugula at the movies is just as good as eating popcorn. Without the dizzy weird side effects. Must eat a sweet after a meal! Orange, granola, something. Otherwise the meal is not complete in my mouth or mind.

My mind constantly wanders to food. Its 31 years of habit - ritual, time of day, distraction patterns. Not that I don't adore food, I LOVE IT, but I am able to see how I use food as a distraction to keep me out of the present moment, even when that present moment is boring as hell.

And my stomache seems to have shrunk a bit.