mostly just things you could eat

Today I learned why I won't eat spicy tuna rolls - it's because they contain MSG, and as the article about MSG cheerfully states, "virtually all studies since [1968] confirm that monosodium glutamate in normal concentrations has no effect on the overwhelming majority of people." Standing in line near a chain smoker would have no effect on the overwhelming majority of people, either, but this is why I've written off the overwhelming majority of grocery stores in town as unshoppable.

The article also mentioned similar problems connected with aspartame, which, as I've mentioned before, will totally wreck some people, but they generally don't know enough to stop drinking diet soda, which is too bad. It's the sneaky stuff that'll make you really sick, and doctors don't always ask if you have a big soda habit, or if there's mold under the leaky window in your campus housing and you eat ramen noodles for lunch when you show up at the health center complaining of feeling like crap. Not that I know anybody who had this problem and solved it by moving, not eating ramen anymore, and getting lots of exercise sprinting around for upwards of an hour at a time after her newly-acquired dog, Molly. But thank God there wasn't any soda involved.

The only other important information out there today is that there's a space ship for sale in Phoenix.