Couple o' things

(1) drollerie press sounds extremely interesting - the sample covers are wonderful and just the type of thing that would draw my eye on a bookstore shelf. I'm hoping I may have something suitable to submit. I'm not so much with the sensuous, but I do have a couple of dark fairy tale irons in the fire. Regardless of how that goes, I'm pretty sure it will be stuff I want to read, and that's always good.

(2) I'm adjusting to a new "diet" that is a modified fast, basically. You can eat anything you want, but only for a limited time each day. Once you get used to it, you supposedly naturally gravitate towards a fairly balanced diet with low total calories for the day. It appeals to me, since, honestly, some form of fasting or very restrictive diets have been what has historically worked for me to lose weight. It's easier to not eat anything, or only eat particular things, than it is for me to put a lot of thought into what I eat. Anyway, what I'm doing right now is pushing back the time I have breakfast later each day, with the goal of only eating between 5 PM and 10 Pm each day. I'm up to 11 am currently, (though I actually am just having my yogurt now, since my mom called just before 11 this morning...) and finding that I can't do anything productive in the morning. I have to put all my energy into Not Eating. It's weird. I'm hoping that goes away as I get used to the new schedule. 'm not looking for advice or help coping with it or whatever, I just wanted to record what a strange feeling it is to bend my energies towards a negative. Oddly, I'm finding that distracting myself with some activity doesn't really help. That's the strangest part - I can sit and read and think to myself that I have X amount of time before breakfast and that's fine, but if I try to , I don't know, clean the bathroom or go for a walk or something I am hit with mad cravings for specific foods. Weird.