I felt better by the time fanlain woke up (or rather, by the time I delivered her Sobalarm clock upstairs), in part because I got a few things done, like totaling up our expenses for the last month (October was expensive, it turns out) and making some small progress to getting more of my group to use subversion. We went out for lunch at Paradiso with some CS profs, who go there most weekend, and then took Soba to the puppy park. She was good and happy but exhibited slightly aggressive tendencies a couple of times. It was sad to see; it wasn't out of line with what other dogs do, but she had been so sweet and happy up until now. But, as the training books told us, dogs are in fact dogs.

After the park we crashed out for a few hours, then went out to a Mediterranean restaurant where I had some manti. I had thought that it was just what I wanted, but turns out what I wanted was the manti we had had in a small place near Ephesus, and not the second-rate substitute we go here. Afterwards we watched "Pieces of April." I hadn't realized that cancer had a central theme in that movie, but it wasn't so bad. I liked it a bit better than Hedges' new movie "Dan in Real Life," though fanlain disagreed. Anyway, made for a pleasant evening.

My mother and sister are both on a big supplement kick and talked about preparing my body for tolerating chemo. I tried to look up some studies and found a few useful ones (Selenium, Magnesium, and Vitamin E), but there also seems to be debate about whether antioxidants help your body or interfere with chemo. More research is needed.