What I Ate For Lunch and Why

Turkey and avocado sandwich and a yogurt, redux

Emily — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:36:23 +0000

And now I guess it’s just going to be totally normal to eat my yogurt with the edge of tiny plastic knife.

Turkey and avocado sandwich and a yogurt

Emily — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:14:54 +0000

So I’ve become the kind of person who brings her laptop everywhere, even to her office, so I can type things up as I go. Which meant I had it with me so I could skype with M. while eating my sandwich and yogurt before class. While of course we had big dramatic things to talk about–I mean, she might have a j-o-b by the end of the week!–of equal importance was whether I should eat my yogurt with a tiny plastic fork or a tiny plastic knife, having no spoons in my drawer at all. I was inclined to the fork, but M. suggested the knife, and, well, she’s the one with the Ph.D. Worked wonders when it came to scooping around the edges.

Lemon chicken meatballs, beet salad, tabouli, cauliflower, and cake

Emily — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:48:30 +0000

If you’d told me that night ten years ago when I was balled up and weeping and waiting that fast-forward I’d be toasting F. on his wedding to K. over beet salad and lemon cake, if you’d told me. There’s something to be said for hanging on and waiting.

Turkey sandwich and a pear

Emily — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:19:28 +0000

I toasted my bread which meant I had a warm sandwich and that was pretty nice, sliced pear on the plate too, on the couch gabbing with K. like old times like all times. We agreed that our cats are pretty cute, and that you pretty much know what you know when you know it, so it’s probably not worth thinking that much about.

Salmon with mango salsa and rice

Emily — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:26:38 +0000

When you work the Saturday shift around here you really can’t leave the desk unless you leave it unattended until around 2pm, at which point I was ready to chew through the door to my cloffice. Lucky me I had leftovers instead, it was like I was still at the dinner party only this time in a series of plastic dishes with a tiny plastic fork from my desk drawer, I could eat that mango salsa every day I think, pretty perfect especially after sitting overnight, gets hotter with time. How about that.

Turkey sandwich and an apple

Emily — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:45:27 +0000

Made a sandwich and put myself back on the couch, chased it with a honeycrisp apple. What a great apple, right?

Peanut butter and jelly sandwich

Emily — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:56:57 +0000

Terrence Hayes is standing up at the front of the room at the podium, just finished reading some poems to a quiet room that only laughed when he told us to, me too, and asks for questions, one hand shoots up fast, This doesn’t have anything to do with you poems, but why are you wearing two watches? And he tells us the story of his watch, more expensive than my first car, and then the watch his daughter gave him when she was seven because she figured he liked watches, runs on a battery he sniffed. The watch went dead in January, five years it lasted, he keeps it on his wrist because he’s used to it and because I like to think about time. Yeah, me too, this two-day old sandwich, that lifetime ago when D. gave me his book and it really was just right, there’s a reason it won a big prize

Turkey sandwich and an apple

Emily — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:14:09 +0000

What a sandwich, what an apple, what a well-packed lunch, what a companionable lunch, googleychatting with K. in the sliver of minutes between meeting two and meeting three.

Falafel sandwich

Emily — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:24:28 +0000

I didn’t get to lunch until 4:15. Gutter. Barrel-scraping.

Chicken over rice redux

Emily — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:45:04 +0000

Lunch was cut in half by a late-arriving student whose pleas that the G train is what kept her (a story I completely believe) softened my general policy toward the tardy. I put down my reading and picked up my chicken and rice and went upstairs to a lab to talk about resources for her capstone project in pretty much the coolest undergrad program I’ve ever heard of. How would we find articles about self-defining moments? I went step by step through my PsycInfo shaking process and shook out Self concept and Experiences (Events) and her eyes were like plates and I’ll admit it, there was some showing off going on.