Back Packin' Snob Snackin'

My semester began this week with classes all day on Thursday. I usually begin every semester with a "healthy eating" agenda: no fast-food, only one Coke, plenty of fruit & protein shakes. With classes that run through dinner time and office hours that cut into lunch & other breaks, finding an actual meal is pretty impossible. A sane person would make food at home and bring it with them; I'm a nervous wreck.

I found a Trader Joe's near my school though, and bought apple slices (in a bag), celery-slices with little packets of peanut-butter, and, best of all, pretzel bites with peanut butter already inside. Built-in peanut butter!! I'm fully aware that this snack doesn't fulfill a "healthy" obligation, but certainly it must be healthier for me than french-fries and Snickers bars.

I recently found a picture intending to explain the miracle of transubstantiation. I'll explain for my Protestant readers: Transubstantiation is the process by which the Communion (or Eucharist) wafer, having been blessed during a Mass by a Catholic priest, transforms inside of your mouth into the actual physical flesh of Jesus Christ. Likewise, transubstantiation occurs when Communion wine, delivered to the congregant during Mass, physically transforms into the actual blood of Jesus Christ inside of your mouth. Some people receive Holy Communion every day, which would be kind of like having a mid-morning Snack 'o Christ.