One dilemma of this no sugar and sodium diet is the rapid weight loss.

I was sitting well at about 120 lbs -- a good weight to start with since I'm hoping to buid a more muscular figure. But since I cut sugar and sodium (sodium restriction started about 2 weeks ago) out, I'm hovering around 110 lbs. 10 fucking pounds in two weeks. What the hell ... let's hope it stops here.

So school begins in less than a month. My first class begins on September 15th and my excitement grows as I look forward to buying school supplies. Actually, that's the only thing I am shitting my pants about. Every year since I was about 12, I skipped happily through Staples or Office Depot throwing anything I saw into a cart. My parents happily obliged because they weren't spoiling me but investing in my future. Year after year, I got highlighters in assorted sizes and colours (even though my highlighting preference was and will always be the thin fluorescent yellow), overpriced pens in every shade (when I ended up always using the blue BIC Cristals) and overloaded on stacks of 200 ruled sheets of paper (1 package was suffice enough -- the rest was "borrowed" from classmates).

Now as I enter what seems like my 70th year of school, have I learned any cost effective ways of keeping myself supplied throughout the school year? No. I still get a high around this time of the year when retailers send out their Back To School fliers and I gawk shamelessly at 80 page notebooks on sale for $0.18 as if they were scantily clad women (I like what I see, what can I say?).

The only downfall to this year's excursion to the office supplies aisle is that my parents can't foot the bill anymore (because I am turning 22 and it's getting quite pathetic) so I must restrict myself to 20 packs of ruled paper this year.