Somnolence.

Today I ate only an apple for breakfast, and was feeling pretty lousy by the time lunch rolled around, but not just because I was hungry. For some reason I have been unbelievably tired in my morning classes recently, and no matter how interesting the material is, I have been finding it nearly impossible to keep my eyes open. This is no normal drowsiness. This is uncontrollable fatigue. Finally I started sipping on some water, but would find my eyes closing and my mind shutting down while I was drinking it. I got a good full night's sleep last night, so the only thing I can think to blame the fatigue on is the lack of breakfast...but even that seems strange.

After class, I learned what a dumb test-taker I am, by going over my midterm with the Prof. Unfortunately, all the questions I missed made complete sense, so I just felt like an idiot. But a more confident idiot.

At lunch, however, I had one of the most delicious Bon sandwiches ever, complete with smoked ham, bacon-leek goat cheese, tomato, and cucumber on sourdough bread. Not the most healthy choices, but sometimes you just have to take what they hand you. I'm not complaining. Had a good ol' conversation with a good ol' friend who was having an equally unfortunate day. Sometimes those make for the best talks.

Hopefully I will get some work done, and go for a walk this afternoon, if all goes smoothly. So far today, no candy, no cookies, no dessert of any kind.


So. I went for an epic walk, but when I got back, I ate some potato leek soup, and made some rice pudding. Too much.

Here is a guess at the rice pudding recipe I made today:

Cinnamon Roll Rice Pudding:

Combine over medium heat until simmering:
1/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 can evaporated milk
1 tbsp cinnamon
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp vanilla extract

Simmer until slightly thickened-should leave a thin layer on a spoon dipped in mixture.


In separate pot, bring to a simmer:
1 1/2 cups arborio rice
2 cups water
2 1/2 cups 2% milk

Cook, covered, over low heat for 20 minutes, or until liquid is absorbed. Add cinnamon mixture to rice, plus:
1 cup 2% milk

Cook until thickened. To test this, place a spoon with the pudding in the freezer, and see if it thickens to pudding consistency.

At this point, take the pudding off the heat, and cool briefly. Stir in:
1 cup sour cream

Serve rice pudding warm or refrigerated, with vanilla wafer cookies.