New self diagnosis:  I am allergic to mangoes.  I’m going by the weird rash on my chin and chappy feeling my lips got recently after eating a mango for lunch and another one for snack.  (Don’t raise your eyebrows at that.  Binge eating fruit doesn’t count.  I refuse to feel any shame about this.)  I’m pretty bummed because I love mangoes and they’ve recently been on a two for three dollars sale at the grocery store, which is going to make them hard to resist. 

But, now that I’m thinking about it, I guess the reaction could be from the organic off-brand raisin bran I ate for breakfast that day too.  Sweet sassy molassy, that would be amazing.  It would be the kind of turn of events that would make me positive God exists.  Ok, so I need to do some empirical testing on this organic off-brand raisin bran theory.  I guess I’m just going to have to eat something from Entenmanns for breakfast tomorrow instead of the dog food like organic off-brand raisin bran, followed by a lunch of mango, and then a snack of mango.  And I should probably eat an Entenmanns product again for dinner, just to avoid any external factors muddling the results of this clinical trial.  (Don’t raise your eyebrows at that either.  Binge eating mass produced baked goods does count.  But still, I refuse to feel any shame.)

I’ll keep you all posted on the results. 

Man, it’s so exciting to rediscover my love of science…and my love of those iced chocolate donuts with little chocolate crumbs on top.