St. Tochumra (both of them) and a rant on Cap'n Crunch

Saint of the Day: There are two different saints named Tochumra who are venerated today in Ireland. Pretty much nothing is known about them except they were both Irish virgins, and one of them is invoked by women in labor. There's quite a bit of irony, I think, that a virgin would be invoked during childbirth (unless it's Mary, the mother of Jesus - that would make more sense).

I'm wearing my green summer dress today. For Ireland.

This picture is a few years old, and I don't even have that cardigan anymore, and I don't think I ever actually wore this outfit in public, but I don't want to take a picture of myself today. Anyway, this is the dress.

Reading: I am doubling up on the reading so that I don't have to do any work at all while we're on vacation. It's kind of making my head explode, but I just keep telling myself it will be worth it to not have to worry about anything and just enjoy myself while we're gone. So, I'm plowing through.

Old English: The Seafarer, a 125-line poem about an old mariner who reminisces about his life spent at sea. I'm about 26 lines in, and so far it's a lot like The Wanderer with lots of cold, freezing images and themes of loss.

Middle English: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. I'm not a huge fan of the CT. But, I have to say, after all the super-boring plays I've been reading, I had a little squee at the thought of getting to read some Chaucer. Today, I'm reading the tales of the Knight, the Miller, the Reeve, and the Cook.

Contemporary American: The Road, pp. 150-250

Workout: I don't know yet. The double work is kind of taking over. I might do it late at night or something. We'll see.

Food:

Breakfast - cereal, juice, and coffee. Time for a little rant. So, I bought this "healthy" cereal that's all fiber and whatnot and Jon has a box of Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch in the pantry. So, I noticed that the calories in my cereal are super-high. Like, 240 calories per serving. Huh? I was like, "Well, at least it's probably less than Cap'n Crunch." Then I looked at the Cap'n Crunch, and it's only 110 calories per serving! How can my healthy cereal be more than TWICE as caloric as freakin' Cap'n Crunch?!?!? So, I bought this Kashi cereal now which at 190 calories per serving still has more than Cap'n Crunch and has the added bonus of tasting like cardboard. I'm seriously thinking about just eating Cap'n Crunch. So defeated.

Lunch - open-faced turkey sandwich, cherries

Dinner - a hamburger and some sugar-free pudding