Thursday night was very, very cold. For the past week, the local television news prepared the viewing area for a significant drop in temperature. Of course, I am too cheap to buy a coat or fix my car window. I have funds available for both. I am an Ebenezer (as in Scrooge, not the biblical Ebenezer).

Well, I drive to the park, because parking is free, and ride the rail to the library. Understand, a library is warm, safe and impervious to harm and distraction-a womb. After spending a few hours, it happens:

I want candy. I will settle for cashews,walnuts, even pecans- anything, dammit! So, I am in the thick of cellular respiration and all I can think is NADH, walnuts, cytochrome c, walnuts are sweet... I am itchy and restless.