Toasties. I love In-N-Out. I do. Truly. Soda and a burger, animal style, of course, is the best. Even Fast Food Nation couldn’t make me stop craving it. Because in part, In-N-Out burgers represent for me summer and vacation.
In-N-Out doesn’t exist on the east coast where I reside. Tragic. Do you have vacation-only food?
Did you have a super packed “aaaaa summer is ending week?” Did you watch the VMAs? What are you doing RIGHT NOW? And go!
(The Toast will be here on Monday, but just for Nicole’s birthday present to herself: exclusively Benedict Cumberbatch content. We’ll see the rest of you on Tuesday. –Ed.)
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You’re making me want to go to In N Out RIGHT NOW. Hmmmm.
I’d whine about no In ‘n’ Out on the East Coast, but I’m on Cape Cod for the weekend, land of lobster rolls, fried clams and amazing homemade ice cream every 500 yards.
Ugh, I hate Jasmine AND you. (Although the curry I’m making smells really good, it is not lobster rolls or In & Out!)
This is the week before school starts (I work at a university) and it is craaazyyy and terrible, all the more so because NO OTHER INDUSTRY WORKS THIS WEEK. And today I got a letter from my landlady that she is selling our building and we have to be out by Dec. 31st. I would like to drink now.
DRINK ALL THE ALCOHOL. (I also work at a university and this week was so long and so terrible.)
hahaha if you are who I think you are we have totally met IRL ooo-eeeee-ooooooo
Ugh I also work at a university and am DEATHLY AFRAID of next week and our management’s blase attitude to our impending and ongoing computer problems.
lol I am doing a walkthrough of our classrooms on Tuesday to check the computers and I am probably going to have a nervous breakdown.
I am a new Grad Student (Hi people who work at Universities! Thanks! Thanks to the nice lady who talked to me about how fellowship funding works and gets taxed while I fought off a panic attack about having filled out a thousand tax forms that did not apply to my fellowship)
There were a thousand technical difficulties in my classes this week. It was not the end of the world, I listened to an professor teach us everything he could think of about the mercator map system with a map of the world on the wall while stalling got the IT guy.
Gah! I didn’t even realize that classes start on TUESDAY. I don’t even know what books to get or have any new binders or highlighters or anything. and now I find out there is pre-reading AND an assignment due on Wednesday already. *cries forever*
In other news, the administration people in my department are being SO nice and helpful and I love them all. and all the profs are running around like crazy but still pretending they have infinite patience when you casually drop by their offices.
This selling the building business is an opportunity! Don’t know where you are, but in my province, they have to give you one month’s free rent if they are selling the building. 🙂
HAHAHAHA THAT IS DEFINITELY NOT THE CASE IN BOSTON.
I, too, work at a university and have done so for years. Yet, somehow, my extended family doesn’t understand all of the howling/rending garments when they suggest a Labor Day cookout every. single. year.
Aaaaah, I work at a university and we started THIS WEEK. What is wrong with us? Why do we start so early? Why is First Week so bad? I had a stretch where I put out fires for seven students in 90 minutes and then I looked up and it was somehow 3pm and I hadn’t eaten and I had drunk so much bad office coffee.
And in the middle of it was my damn birthday, which I got to spend waiting in a receiving line to shake hands for 10 second with the new president, so that was a delight. I made up for it by making myself limeade icebox pie this weekend and eating only that.
Good luck on your first week. Godspeed!
I had anxiety attacks all day.
I went on a walk on the heath which made me feel better. There’s a wooded bit that has started to smell slightly of autumn and that was relaxing.
I’m sorry to hear that. Anxiety disorders are the worst, although there is no better feeling than having a few days anxiety-free and realizing that life’s actually ok.
I hate it. It gets worse cause I’m alone so much of the time so I don;t have company to help me cycle down.
And there is NOTHING better than those golden days where I amd free of both anxiety and depression and I feel OK.
*hugs if you want them*
I am part of the club! It is not a club I would want my worst enemy to have to join.
I would probably not wish this on anyone. Though in my darkest times thoughtless commenters may have been wished into having it for a week so they would shut up and leave me to cope the best I could.
Like the guy who said he was glad I was off meds as he ‘didn;t agree with giving young people medication’ and when I told him ‘well it was probably better than killing myself’ told me to stop exaggerating and it couldn’t have been that bad.
But you don’t tend to be a very pleasant person in the middle of a severe episode so.
It’s way better than it used to be at least. My episodes are fortnightly rather than constant, and sever episodes are every two months rather than every ten days. Progress is good.
(Okay, I might wish it on some people for a week so they could see what it’s like. You’re absolutely right.)
Progress is excellent!
Just a week. Long enough for them to get a real idea but short enough that it doesn’t fuck up their life.
And not even how I feel on my worst weeks. One week of what is ‘neutral’ for me should do it. Wouldn’t want them to have too hard a time.
Ugh, I’m really sorry about that. Have you been able to try CBT yet? I did a course of it (for free, as part of a study) and it taught me a lot about coping with anxiety, especially when I’m alone and don’t have people around to help me cycle down.
I have! It helps prevent me from going into full-blown panic attacks 90% of the time. I’m also seeing a therapist, which is great.
Ah I should have guessed, what with the nature walking! That sounds like part of your CBT toolkit (that’s how they made me talk in therapy oh god ugh ugh).
This, plus at my last therapy session I was asked to visualise my anxiety (creepy goblin man hiding in dark caves waiting to trip me) and my idea of perfect safety (embarrasingly convential and capatalist\) in order to help keep myself centred.
I’m supposed to take deep breaths and visualise my safe space if I’m not up to leaving the house alone (which sometimes I’m not)
And yes ugh on how they make you talk in therapy it’s all so earnest and embarrassing and I am basically a ball of sarcasm and sef-deprecation (to the point my therapist gave me HOMEWORK to have an honest conversation about my feelings without making a joke of myself for ONE WHOLE MINUTE)
That homework sounds like a FANTASTIC idea. I may have to adopt that.
It’s painful and awkward and uncomfortable but feels really healing when you’re done.
I always talk about my depression with a little self-deprecating joke, and my therapist suggested that doing that allowed me to not take it seriously and therefore hate myself more for being so upset about something ‘not real’.
She may also have pointed out that it’s a really good way of avoiding people getting emotionally close to you.
Yeah, we start to believe our own self-advertising. As self-destructing as that can be.
I’m sorry, too, that you’re fighting the anxiety battle. It sucks.
That sucks. I was getting some earlier this week for absolutely no reason (I mean, I know that’s how it works, but still) and it was so frustrating.
On another topic entirely, I checked out your apocalypse blog, and, as someone who spends kind of an inordinate amount of time wondering if the flat roof of our apartment building has enough structural integrity to support a garden to feed us in the End Times, I love it.
Thanks! It’s down to me and two other women who I’ve never actually met.
AND I have loads of spots today.
Right now I am watching Jaws in my pyjamas on the sofa. I am proper hardcore rock and roll, me. No long weekend for us though, the UK bank holiday was last week.
Happy early Birthday, Nicole! Looking forward to all the BC content on Monday.
Seconded! Also presumably you will have seen the Benedict Cumberbatch Name Generator already, but here you go: http://benedictcumberbatchgenerator.tumblr.com/
I’ve never seen this before, and I love it.
Sincerely,
Bumberstump Chesterfield
It’s a million degrees in TX so I am going tooooobing in the river with some friends and acquaintances and we are going to splash around all day and drink all the beer!
I’d only add that if you get that animal-style burger double-double, then you double your pleasure. Man, now I miss In-n-Out. And Jack in the Box, whose 99 cent tacos I completely took for granted when I lived on the west side of the country.
Tonight I’m going to see an interactive theater show in DC called “The Time Machine” that’s apparently based on H.G. Wells’ stuff. I think it’s like a knock-off “Sleep No More”, but it’s DC, so, that’s about as much as we can hope for. Anyway, I’m excited for it!
I have such a super packed weekend! I will be making chutney/relish/salsa/something like that with friends, going to a demolition derby/baseball tournament with another friend, and then I have to get my shit together because I leave in a week on a three-week long multi-national vacation, and I’ve never really travelled before and I have so much to do!
Also, gin&tonics.
Coworker getting worried about potential complaints about the use of the word “queer” in an ad for a queer speed-dating event. had to explain that it’s ok if people are using it to describe themselves; have had to call this coworker out in the past for using it as an insult.
Sigh.
At least they’re learning?
You guys, earlier this week there was a tweet thread between Sir-Mix-A-Lot, the Seattle Police Department, and Chester Cheetah, all making puns about cheese:
https://twitter.com/therealmix/status/37218650551…
Thank you; shared it in a FB thread w/ a friend where we’re rewriting pop songs to be about cheese.
My favorite was when the SPD told MIX that “…we’re going to need to see your license and chedristration.”
The SPD’s social media people are one hundred percent genius, seriously.
I am house/dog-sitting for my parents who live out in the country surrounded by nothing. My mother stocked the house with food and I have nothing to do all weekend except write, make things, eat, sleep, rinse, and repeat. MY BODY IS SO READY.
Oh gods that sounds so wonderful. House-sitting is the best.
3 more hours of work and then I start my first vacation in 2 years. Time off that’s not injury related, here I come. Tomorrow I plan on seeing The World’s End alone, because no friends want to see it.
School has already started. I have no idea how I am going to fill these three days, I know like one and a half people. I am currently sitting in the outer office of what will eventually be my office reading an article about Neodymium isotopes as a proxy for past ocean circulation. Soon I will begin a project that will look at Neodymium and Lead isotopes in the mud and dead fish parts at the bottom of the ocean during the late Oligocene to early Miocene. (Think 30 to 15 Million years ago: The Continents are making their way to their present locations and the earth is moving into the ice age that we are just coming out of.)
I am taking ten credits, I’ve been here for two weeks. I’m hungry and want to go home but my advisor is going to be in Spain next week so I feel like I need to stick it out to 5.
Tonight I am making something with Quinoa. That is as far as i’ve gotten.
Good luck! I’m glad smart people like you are doing awesome science research that I would never understand. I hope you get to enjoy your weekend. Maybe a favourite book/tv show and a bottle of wine?
Hi The Toast! (Thanks for the nice comments on my article this week, you are lovely people.) I am currently by myself in Amsterdam and, much as I like the internet, I would like some actual human contact. Next door is having a birthday party and they put a note through the door which I ushered through Google Translate and it says I can call them if it’s too noisy or also just go there. I am not sure whether I should interpret it as a general invitation or whether it’s purely on a noise-reduction basis, but I am debating whether to text the number and offer to bring a bottle, while affording them the means to say no or to ignore my text if they so choose. Well, that’s my story. Have a nice weekend yougaiz.
Hello! Please write more for us! I would just rock up with a bottle if I were you, it’s not far to take it back home if it’s unwanted 😉
Aw, thanks! (I hope to.) And alas, I never got a reply to my text, which could conceivably be because there is a problem with my phone, but I WILL NEVER KNOW. I decided to go to bed, which was pretty smart, but live in hope of maybe hanging out with human beings tonight.
How is the site functioning for everyone?
Fine but I think I need to clear my cookies because new updates don’t show when I refresh till nearly an hour after they’ve been posted.
excellently. except on my phone. is there a reason for that? the top few lines of comments are unreadable. what am i doing wrong? or did you not mean technologically speaking? because, obviously, this site is the best. of everything.
I’ve got the same thing with my phone and the comments. Also the layout on my phone is kind of weird.
Fine, I think? I did have an odd and persistent 404 failure last week while trying to link to the male antihero thread, but everything seems smooth now.
Fine, although I haven’t been on much today.
I have trouble logging in on my home laptop, but it works fine at work. Everything else is peachy keen.
Oh, wait. Needs more misandry.
Irrational: it sometimes makes me sad that my comments are not approved instantly by moderators but not sad enough to make an intensedebate or wordpress account. I just don’t want either of those accounts! They try to log you in other places! It’s worse than facebook-account-using places!
I just want a one-off stupid site specific account with email notifications or I’ll guestpost forever from my stupid YTR handle.
The site itself functions just fine, it’s just that the commenter account options aren’t for me.
I have a wordpress account, but somehow comments from my work laptop still have to get approved by site moderators. Maybe Nicole and Mallory are in cahoots with my boss somehow.
I seem to need to resize my browser to get the columns to not overlap. I tile my windows (makes it easier to hide at will), and after being on sites with porny ads that need to be hidden in the side column, I always need to widen The Toast so the columns are not overlapping their content.
Also, ditto others’ problems of reading the site on my phone.
still horribs on my POS phone, still collapsing comments after I look at a page too many times. But I love it sooooo much these are minor quibbles.
I don’t know if everyone has this problem, but when I follow a link to a specific thread from my email, it usually doesn’t jump down the page to the thread.
It’s not as big a deal on the computer (Chrome on Mac OS X 10.6.8) because I can search for a text string to find the comment, but on the phone I don’t have that option so I can never reply to comments on my phone. I can’t say whether or not I have the problems others are having on their phones because I haven’t tried it since the site was new.
Good news: I’ve been applying for jobs and got invited for an interview next week!
Bad news: they want a writing sample, and the kind of work they’re interested (more research/analysis) is very different than the kind of writing I’ve been doing for the past five years. I had to go back to my writing in grad school to find something more research-focused. As a result, I just went through a bunch of five year old grad school papers in order to find something tolerable for a writing sample, and I am so embarrassed for my 22-24 year old self. I’m now convinced that my professors must’ve thought I didn’t belong there at the end of my studies. ACK. ACK. ACK.
This is compounded by memories of one professor saying to me on graduation day something along the lines of “I always felt like you were searching for something here..” which I always interpreted to mean that I wasn’t as focused on one sub-concentration as much as other students, while another professor said to me at the same time “I’m sorry I never could figure out how to guide you properly [in this studio.]”
o_O
I think I need to go breath in a paper bag or something.
But, uh, hooray interview? In the meantime, I’ll try to wipe away 5 years of imagined disdain from a ivy league graduate program..
It’s not you, not your youth then or even necessarily your writing. I was an experienced writer and adult for all of my undergrad and I still get a hot flush of shame when I re-read old papers. Last time, it was because a former prof suggested I expand a particular argument for publication, so I knew he admired both the content and writing, but I always find little writing quirks that embarrass me on re-reading.
Ah, that makes me feel a little bit better! I always feel that when re-reading my old work, and my husband always thought it was odd.
Unfortunately, one of the papers I dug up was attached to an email by a professor that essentially said that the sample’s topic was interesting but the quality itself was “not very high,” so in at least one case, it wasn’t just me who felt this way. uggggggggggh
Well, don’t take that tooooo much to heart. If you can write competently and coherently (and clearly you can), that puts you well ahead of many candidates.
And I meant to add: congratulations! That’s great news!
Thank you so much for your kind words!
Also, my own example kinda came out wrong: sometimes I re-read something that I really did just write badly and feel that flush, too. But the embarrassment itself is not, in my experience, a reliable indicator of quality.
good luck firie!
Does anybody else watch Pretty Little Liars? Do you have a burning hate for Ezra Fitz as well?
I’m about to watch the season finale!
I do! And I am now very interested to know what you think of the finale!
In terms of Ezra, I’m more bored by him. I’ve come to expect everyone’s life on that show to be full of scandal, and his is just not up to par!
I am about halfway through season one and already think he’s just awful. Doesn’t add much at all. Was disappointed to learn that he doesn’t die by the end of the season.
I do like that his name contains two Z’s…
I watch it weekly as a bonding event with my sisters. We order terrible pizza and scream at the TV. “EZRA you are SUCH a PERV why are you still here four seasons later” and “HANNAH why are you so STUPID stop touching that gun with your bare hands” but mostly “ARIA what are you even WEARING.”
Basically it’s the best. Now our boyfriends are into it too. They pretend they aren’t but secretly they love it too. I haven’t seen the finale yet either but apparently something crazy happens (of course) so I’m waiting until we can all get together next week to see it.
And YES Ezra is seriously the worst. Such a pathetic creep. He really should be in jail, not teaching. I honestly can’t tell if we’re supposed to be rooting for him because he is just so awful.
Ugh Ezra. Send him to jail for real. I really hope he is evil and goes AWAY, even though they seem to shoving the Ezra+Aria=TWU WUV thing down our throats.
(I love this show so much. I was so excited when they went to a magic show. Like, “Oh, I wonder if it will be a SPOOKY magic show, because they never just run blindly into SPOOKY situations, except that time in the mask shop and the time at the carnival and the time at the costume shop and the time at the asylum and that time at…”)
Today is my last day at this current position and when I come back to the office on Tuesday I will be a full-time grown-up salaried benefitted employee for the first time in my life!!!!!!!!
To celebrate I am going back to my hometown this weekend for the WINE FESTIVAL! They charter lil airport shuttle buses to take you around the wineries and then you and all your friends get day drunk and then get dropped off downtown to eat dinner and fall asleep in the outdoor seating. ALL ABOARD THE WINE BUS! TOOT TOOT!
My NY vacation treat is VANESSA’S! Ugh, those stupid dumplings and sandwiches are so good.
Crif Dog. Oh man I’m going to eat so much Crif Dog when I make it out to NYC.
Aaaaaah, good timing! I just finished the full version* of cleaning up for guests this evening, then came back to my computer for a few minutes’ rest.
*There are a lot of versions. This was the sweaty hands-and-knees scrubbing ’round the toilet version because the place really needed it. Sometimes it’s the light sweeping and mopping version. Sometimes it’s the pick up socks and turn down the lights version. I liiiiiike that one.
This was the last week of an extremely frustrating summer. I’m hoping the return of my daughter’s fall/winter preschool schedule will let me be a better parent and a better job-hunter, because I feel like I’ve completely failed at both for the past 12 weeks.
Oh, right: end-of-summer plans. Um, I forgot it was Labor Day weekend. But I did invite some friends over for a “The Shining” viewing party this evening, so we’re going to be sitting here in front of fans and a cold buffet, swilling blood-orange punch, and watching a family get snowed in.
The Fella announced yesterday that his week of vacation is confirmed for next month, so that will be our summer vacation: just spending some time together doing things outside instead of tap-tap-tapping away on our laptops side by side at night. I am greedily looking forward to it.
This week I didn’t get a callback for a job I REALLY wanted but DID have a fight with a friend and a depression spiral. Today I am wearing a purple pencil skirt and in two hours I am going to get bombed on martinis with my best girls.
Also I am finally reading Emily Matchar’s Homeward Bound, about women and the rise of domesticity culture and it’s SO interesting and apt and engaging. Has anyone else read it? What did you think? There are definite weaknesses–she doesn’t talk about the shrinking middle class and whether these movements are affecting poor women in the same way, and instead focuses on middle class white women, most of whom are married to breadwinning men, but it’s still interesting.
Also I just finished Cassandra at the Wedding and am SO pumped to talk about it for Toast Book Club. I loved and had a very emotional reaction to it.
I read Homeward Bound a while ago. I also found it really engaging, particularly when she talked about things I am very involved in (knitting, though not on the internet; making jam, which I learned from relatives as a child and so clearly am not part of the problem what you are talking about) or things I am but a mere observer of but feel free to judge (attachment parenting).
This was the first good unified theory I’d heard for all of those things, and I’m still processing it. It is definitely a very journalist-y book rather than an evidence-based book, and I would rather read the studies–except her voice is more engaging, I’m sure, than the academic version would be. I think your points are valid, too.
I would definitely prefer the academic version but I suspect this has had a more immediate impact on discourses surrounding the whole “opt out” idea than the academic thing would be (alas).
Regarding catnamedvirtue’s points wrt class, I kind of couldn’t help but see it as a bit of a Feminine Mystique type of text. Super problematic in terms of its categories of analysis. But I devoured it.
Okay, happier news: My husband and I are going to the National Zoo tomorrow and we’re going to see red pandas, fishing cats, and pretty much all of the cute (and non-cute) animals there. I am incredibly excited about this.
Are there any Central FL geek/tech peeps out there? Do you want to go to dinner? I started a page for Orlando Geek Girl Dinners on FB to try and get people together. Join us, if you like.
Also, any Central FL people that would be interested in a Toaster (and/or ‘Pinup)?
Ah man, I used to be a Central FL person but no longer. 🙁 But I have cool friends there! Who often hang around here but right now they are away from their computers.
Oh, please pass it on! I’d love to have /any/ group of women to confab with, but Toastie/Pinner ladies and gents would be the bee’s knees.
Shout-out to the guy I saw yesterday morning at the bus stop doing wall push-ups against the trash can! Clearly a Toast reader who was taking Nicole’s good advice and Feeling the Burn.
I saw a guy drop and do 30 (yes I did count) tramp push-ups waiting for the train the other day! Someone do a trend piece on public transit push-ups!
I’m getting married in a month. I am so sick of planning. I just want it to be over so I can go on vacation and just fucking be married.
So I have tickets for the RSC productions of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the bodies. How excited can I be for something that’s six months away? VERY. 😀
I am spending the long weekend recovering from getting my wisdom teeth out! Anyone have any tips/tricks/recommended movies or books or things? Or just want to commiserate? My face is soooooo poofy and I have the worst anxiety about (GROSSNESS WARNING) poking at or dislodging the blood clot. On the other hand, guilt-free lazing for three days!
The advice I received when I got mine out was “your life is going to revolve around the inside of your mouth for about a week”. Alas this was fairly accurate. AND IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY. So I got lots of friends round, and we smoked things because I couldn’t drink alcohol because of painkillers, and watched a bewildering old Jackie Chan film called City Hunter. I hope this helps. Good luck!
The best advice I got: buy a bag of frozen peas and a bag of frozen corn to use as ice packs. Both contain small enough frozen pellets to conform nicely to your jaw, and when you’re addled from medication, it’s easiest to have two different packages so you can remember which one you used more recently.
I was absolutely certain I’d dislodged the clot; I was terrified and anxious for days. But at my follow-up, the surgeon said everything looked peachy. Just don’t probe at it and follow all your after-care instructions. You’ll be great!
I will also point out that not everyone needs a long recovery. My partner had two teeth out first thing in the morning, was eating comfortably by that evening, never wanted his prescription meds, and was back at work by the next day, chipper as anything. (I, who spent the week after my single extraction eating pudding or avocado or yogurt, was amazed and thrilled for him.) So maybe you can even enjoy some of that lazing!
Ahh IN-N-OUT : fast food of the gods! I am sadly several timezones away from enjoying one of these dudes. Instead I am catching up on my internet reading at the local coffee shop. Blissfully alone (and not anxiously, for the first time in a LONG time) before meeting some girlfriends in town for a comedy show. I am looking forward to eating grilled foods and cold booze on this hot muggy weekend and snuggle bonding with my kitten.
Dudes I’m just finishing out my first week at a new job and it went all right and now I have beer and tomorrow I’m going to the library and Monday there’s a CONCERT with INTERNET FRIENDS and generally I feel ok.
Good news / bad news: Good news! I’m getting published again, which I’m happy about. Bad news: The professor of my most difficult class is assigning work requiring processes that aren’t elaborated upon in our materials. An inquisitive email I sent was met with what was either a form letter only tangentially related to the subject or an implicit message that I’m on my own with this.*
Anyway here’s a compilation of music I scraped together as reference material for my essay. It’s about music and stimming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtMVpL3B_6Y
* Dude is a brilliant statistician and analyst but not a very organized teacher.
Meetapossum! ! ! Get at me dude, we’ll eat vegan food before the 5th, or something.
I am heerrrrre. I just got to Denver yesterday. I sent you an e-mail 🙂
I had my first grad class today and was shaking like a leaf while talking to the professor after. But it was good and I think I’m going to like it here even though I’m kind of lonely/overwhelmed right now. Though not nearly as lonely/overwhelmed as I was when I started undergrad and way more equipped to be able to deal with it now so I’m ultimately just feeling kind of strong/brave (even though I am a little raw). I’m spending the long weekend reading, watching some college football (it feels like home), and just kind of recharging my introvert batteries.
I forgot to add that I have been craving a pumpkin spice latte for all of August and if Starbucks doesn’t deliver soon I will actually cry over a syrup.
Imma throw this out there. Was Nancy Drew a feminist work? Most stories pass the Bechdel test. Discuss.
Wasn’t _Fast Food Nation_ all “Oh, but In n’ Out’s cool. The food is not poison, and the employees make a living wage”?
I think it’s the book that said that. I know I switched 90% of my burger eating to In n’ OUt around the time I read it.
!!!!!! I keep staring at my book copies and thinking "when is it TOO soon to read them again???" because I just read them like 4months ago
All I remember about Nancy Drew is that she (made? ate?) quiche a lot and so I learned to spell quiche.
Bunsonburner Countryside! AHOY THERE
Do IIIT! Details will be falling out of your brain as we speak!
Aaaaah, I work at a university and we started THIS WEEK. What is wrong with us? Why do we start so early? Why is First Week so bad? I had a stretch where I put out fires for seven students in 90 minutes and then I looked up and it was somehow 3pm and I hadn't eaten and I had drunk so much bad office coffee.
And in the middle of it was my damn birthday, which I got to spend waiting in a receiving line to shake hands for 10 second with the new president, so that was a delight. I made up for it by making myself limeade icebox pie this weekend and eating only that.
Good luck on your first week. Godspeed!
I’m late again to the Cocktail Hour, but this week it’s because it was This Week, The First Week of Classes and it ate my life and I’m only just now recovered.
Vacation Food: I spent a week in Tucson this summer and ate Eegee’s ranch fries and drank an iced teegee every other day and it was the best. I also ate so much cheese crisps but probably less Jack in the Box than I should have, because I was full up on cheese crisp. I also missed Korean tacos in Chicago because I was busy eating homemade Chinese food made by a Chinese mom, including dumpling soup with ALL THE DUMPLINGS.
I’m hungry now.
I'm late again to the Cocktail Hour, but this week it's because it was This Week, The First Week of Classes and it ate my life and I'm only just now recovered.
Vacation Food: I spent a week in Tucson this summer and ate Eegee's ranch fries and drank an iced teegee every other day and it was the best. I also ate so much cheese crisps but probably less Jack in the Box than I should have, because I was full up on cheese crisp. I also missed Korean tacos in Chicago because I was busy eating homemade Chinese food made by a Chinese mom, including dumpling soup with ALL THE DUMPLINGS.
I'm hungry now.