quacking

We got the visa letter this week - we have our interview on the 7th, which has only one significant factor: it's before the 28th.

So today I had to get quacked to show that I don't have anything communicable, They x-rayed me to prove I don't have tuberculosis, they took certificates to make sure I wasn't going to get tetanus or diptheria or polio or measles or mumps or rubella, they checked to make sure I didn't have various STDs, dangerous mental conditions or missing limbs, they asked me 10000 times if I was pregnant, and they took buckets and buckets of blood. Some of it was to check that I don't have HIV and other things. I think the rest of it was for the lab technician's supper.

vegan housecleaning

http://www.vegetariantimes.com/magazine/view.asp?article=647

I'm on a hunt for exciting vegan food, given as we have one coming to dinner. And I encounter this article. Basically it seems to advise using vegan-type cleaning products on the basis that some ordinary cleaners are highly toxic. Some cleaners can apparently produce chlorine, which can apparently kill you (and if you don't die, you're for sure going to end up a nervous wreck with cancer). I'm not sure what the vegan replacement for bleach is, though. They don't suggest an alternative, and antiseptic essential oils probably aren't going to cut it.

It's also very hard trying to do something that the Atkins AND the vegan can eat, given that we don't have any tofu. So I thought I'd look at vegan sites, and the ones I've found so far either seem to think that raw food is much better, or they call for things like "nutritional wheat flakes" (sounds gross), or they're just ordinary recipes that use soy milk, meat and cheese, and I don't need some fancy-pants vegan recipe to tell me that I can make vegan lasagne using vegan meat and vegan cheese. Duh.