Citizens, let's talk lunches. Here's another slacker roundup--all the lunches since the last roundup, actually. Again, organized by device for your convenience.
First off, because it is cold outside, the Soup Device:
We believe this is borscht, with sour cream and carrots. In the back, notice Gary Snyder, a poet who We have a love-hate relationship with. No nature, indeed--but less in the way you mean it, and more in the way Timothy Morton means it.
This is chili, with what We believe is shame bread and an orange. Behind Our shame is the Thirsty Bat of tea or something, and behind the orange is the rose bowl of chocolate eyeballs We had on Our desk all Halloween and post-H season. Hooray bowl of eyeballs!
Here is lentil soup, kingdom bread, and the awesome power of pineapple rings. Meanwhile, there's a cup of tea from Starbucks with a coffee-cup-protector-warmer-thingy We made on it. The tea was a disaster. The obviously-new barista charged Us the tea-latte price, even after We told her that tea was usually around $2. She argued that Starbucks only sells tea lattes, not just regular hot tea. So We had to physically make her turn around and look at the price of tea on the board above her head. And then she was all, "We don't have black tea." So what do you have? "Green, mint, Earl Grey, blah blah blah." Rather than fight, We took the Earl Grey. Someone else can see to her education. We do not mean to be mean--but We were polite at first, and then when she told Us vehemently that We were wrong, We gave up. The moral: the tea came out too strong and was some sort of super-bitter tea concentrate when We got here, so that We took about a half-cup of tea sludge, cut it with water and honey, and reheated it in Our microwave. Not shown: the 8 Advil We took over the course of the day while drinking the Tea Disaster.
As an aside, in Our attendance book, you can see all the student absences. Blue highlights are absent days. So much missed class!
Next device: Pie!
Here is veggie quiche, with leftover sweet potato hiding behind it. Just peeking out there on the right is a bottle of water.
And more quiche, with the omnipresent carrots and apples. Dunno what We'd do w/out carrots and apples.
Next, Crackers and Sandwiches!
Beloved rye crackers, apples and carrots, and hummus. Woo.
PB& with apples and carrots. Woo. At least it's kingdom bread.
In case you do not know what the inside of a PB&J looks like. (We suspect this was so We would remember the sandwich contents.)
Man, We are boring sometimes. Desk, desk, sandwich, putter. Gah! New device, quick, before We are suddenly 75! Bring on Salads!
Ah. Salad, yogurt, and apple. Love yogurt. We know We bitched and moaned about the 0% stuff--and it is indeed still not as tasty as the other kind--but 2% only comes in pineapple. We can only eat so much pineapple yogurt. In fact, We are going to go eat a yogurt right now, while We finish this epic post.
Horrors! It's back. And in low-res. Cottage cheese, frozen peas, tomato, and cucumber.
Some Miscellaneous stuffs:
A baked potato with hard-boiled egg and sour cream, with steamed carrots on the side. We believe that there is coffee in that Thermos. Which, don't expect to see it again. We forgot it for some time, and the incredible funk that was in there meant We just chucked it out. We felt bad, yes, but some things can't be saved.
This is an amazing stir-fry: cabbage, chickpeas, garlic, popped mustard, turmeric, and cayenne. Yum! With brown rice. And an apple. And tea.
This was, We believe, the last active class day of the semester, hence Our cobbled-together lunch of instant ramen, apple and peanut butter, carrots, and a donut. The donut was purloined from the grad lounge, as many people bribe their students for good evals. Or get good evals b/c people are happier w/ high blood sugar. Either way, there are a lot of snackies going spare in the department on the last few days. The ramen? Was pretty bad. Sorry, Senor McDougall. Those noodles were unpleasant. Also, as you can see, I was too busy to wash a proper water bottle, so I'm using a mason jar--which I brought to school w/ breakfast in it, which was about 2 cups of soymilk, 2 cups of coffee, and a couple tablespoons of sugar. Oh, the health, it practically exuded from my pores.
Later, I also ate Common Room Oreos.
And finally, your friend and Ours:
What is life without fried rice? Not worth living, We say.
Hope you enjoyed the roundup, and We'll be back soon w/ more entries.
