Monday morning isn't Monday morning if one hasn't caught up on the weekend of Stephanie Klein, the chick lit blogger canonized by Judith Regan with a massive book deal. Today's moment of quiet zen:

The hardest thing for me to accept is transience. It is harder than dieting, the ability to accept that the things we work so hard on, believe in, and fight for can go at any time.

Or, to paraphrase, the pain may go, but the pounds remain.
Jimmy Olsen's Blues [Stephanie Klein]