CSI...

I watched CSI tonight, because Harry told me Nicholas Lea was on it. Gad. I am such a fangirl.

So I watched it, and he was. Sadly, he wasn't on it a lot, because he was the dead guy, but it was fun to see him even if in a few flashback moments.

I was interested to notice that the show was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, whose name I know from Pirates of the Caribbean. Huh. So now I know who he is. A many-hit wonder.

Food again...

I figured out why I felt miserable last week. I was struggling with allergies and exhaustion, and couldn't figure out why. It was getting worse, despite antihistamines. Add to that memory lapses, pain in the lower back, and - well, I'll spare you all the symptoms. Sunday I was so tired I just sat and read (and napped) all day.

What clued me in was the sugar binges.

Classic symptoms of candidiasis. I know them well - especially the sense of exhaustion right after eating. And a craving for sweets - that really isn't like me. I should have recognized them. But it's been so long that I've been symptom-free that I tend to think of myself as 'cured' of candidiasis and heck, one little donut can't hurt, right?

Well, it did. Or... it leads to things that do. Stupidity and slowness to figure it out is actually a symptom of the disease. I have to remember this.

I've been three days on the Ayurvedic diet again (almost identical to the medical diet for candidiasis, by no coincidence) and the symptoms disappeared the first day I started eating properly again. Except the itchy skin. Ah well, that will go too. I dropped by the comic book shop (the Silver Snail on Bank St.), and the health food store down the block from it (Herb & Spice) and stocked up on organic vegetables. Then I made a gorgeous soup of organic, mushrooms, kale, cilantro, carrots, cauliflower, and a purple potato, and it was delicious.

I'd never had a purple potato before. Why purple, I wonder? It had a lovely, strong, distinctive taste - I mean, it tasted like a potato, but like an incredibly good potato. I couldn't figure out whether the good flavour was because it was organic, or because it was purple, or both.

I wonder where in town I can find organic meats. I thought the Loeb at Bank and Second carried them, but I checked, and they don'e. Maybe one of the butchers? And soy milk - I'll have to make my own, I think; the kind they sell in the stores has sugar in it. It tastes great but the kind I make (when I take the time to make it) tastes even better. It's a bit of a nuisance, though. It takes time.

So I'm back on the Ayurvedic diet with a firm resolve not to mess it up this time. Sure, I can vary what I eat, it's a very forgiving and elastic diet. But candidiasis isn't forgiving at all.

And I hate being sick. I particularly hate a sickness that makes me stupid.