bitter magnet

According to Time Magazine, John Edwards is known to drink 4 Diet Cokes before noon. Eek! So i don't feel so bad about drinking this one can here at 5:45pm (that too-early-for-dinner-and-need-something-to-get-last-bit-of-day time). I haven't had a Diet Coke in several weeks, so i probably (hopefully) haven't reached lethal levels of aspartame yet. Boy, i sure hope the folks at Monsanto (and the FDA, since it's the same crowd essentially) aren't totally wrong when they claim that aspartame really isn't carcinogenic. I think the only way to be sure of this is to force all the execs over there  to drink at least 4 cans of Diet Coke a day. If they go along willingly and are unaffected (save for being caffeinated up the wazoo), then it's safe. If they dont (or if they do and they start dropping like flies), time to switch to regular Coke, peeps! Or black coffee, for that matter!

Oh, and by the way, on a totally unrelated subject: Feliz 28 de Julio!! For those of you not in the know, today is the independence day for Peru. I wonder what sort of feast my parents have prepared back home. Ah, if only i have some picarones right now! Maybe i should i get a deep fryer just so I can make them. Or should i try making turron de dona pepa? Or maybe alfajores? Mmm, dessert!!

Life is short. Eat dessert first!