DAY 27

Today has been a LONG day. It's actually been short time wise, but a very wearing day. Paul is in Seattle at a conference for the week so we are on our own. We made a giant list of everything we need to do but most items were little things. Except one- typing up all of our notes from Computrition training. We did the training about 3 weeks ago and therefore need to be refreshed on everything. The notes we took are pretty decent, but we still have been getting stuck a lot today. Our project is to type up fool-proof notes so that future food service managers will know how to use the system without going through an extensive training session. Rachael has been typing on Excel all day and at the same time I have been going through each step on Computrition and reciting the instructions out loud. It's semi-torturous! Not to mention the 10-12 "crack rocks" (chocolate covered espresso beans) that I ate this morning... I rarely consumed caffeine until coming to Bozeman and my body is not accustomed to such large amounts of legal stimulant. I wasn't even tired when I ate them and I have been a little (okay, a lot) jittery ever since. Apparently 3-4 is the amount that most people need for a little pick-me-up.

Here's something out of the ordinary- I ate bugs for dinner, on purpose. A group of my friends got together and we all cooked dinner. We had spinach-feta pizza rolls, garlic bread, salad, and for the main course we made a stir fry with rice noodles and meal worm pupae. It was quite delicious! Apparently they're really high in protein and chitin.