Glutton-free

The whole weekend: a bust. Saturday was spent whoring away at school taking an exam. Sunday was spent adopting a mixer and running around lost in the South Bay. Monday was the reunion/memorial for my grandmother. And now here we are: Monday evening. Pollen count feels high because I get a tickle in the back of my throat, I'm wicked thirsty and my eyes are itchy. I think the pollen is worse in SF where there's that stupid tree outside Rob's place. This tree is a type of monocot and when it flowers, it sprouts fluffy yellow pollen-laden fuzzy-balls. It looks like a heckle of baby chicks are growing all over it. Every time the wind blows, I get a face full of this stuff.

Now it's too late to make a concerted effort for the paper. But I am determined! I will write an outline/draft tonight and tomorrow I will finish it! I must. The sense of dread, impending doom, and imminent failure rankles around in the back of my mind, collecting the dust to its growing mass, casting a shadow the size of self-doubt. Without addressing this dreaded monster that grows more fearsome when I refuse to look it straight in the face, I can never clear away my to-do list. It's the lump that trips up my best laid plans for a smooth finals study period. It's the leak on the bottom of my canoe. It grasps more ammunition with every bout of procrastination, the sound it makes thunders like grinding chains.

On a happier note, I made a gluten-free cake for the first time today. It was from a box. By Betty Crocker. But it tasted pretty darn good! You couldn't even tell that it's gluten free. Perhaps it's because it's not GLUTTON free. Plenty of sugar and starch in the bag, just not from wheat. I think I'll start developing a line of gluten-free baked goods. The ingredients on the box are simple enough: rice flour, potato startch, levening, soy flour, sugar, and tapioca flour (not in that order). My cousin will taste-test since she's so generous to take one for the team. Chocolate is apparently really good for masking the "flavor" of gluten-free. I dunno. I'll have to try it out. To find some gluten-free recipes....Do you think Martha has a few?