I am fasting today. This is because tomorrow I am to undergo a minor

exploratory procedure that I’d prefer not to go into detail about. (If

I mention Katie Couric you will get the idea.)

So nothing but weak green tea today, and a can of bouillon for lunch. I

never realized before how much I like food. You’d never think it to

look at me. I have the tall, bony English physique that Heinrich

Himmler admired so much. (He put it down to oatmeal porridge, and made

his SS men eat porridge for breakfast.) Yet here is is, 10 a.m., and

I’m going nuts already. That can of bouillon is starting to look really

good.