O.’s applying chapstick to his chin, K.’s in the kitchen cooking eggs to order, I’m counting down to hot coffee, eating pineapple chunks out of a bowl on the table. I can’t remember ever answering so many questions about my ideal fried egg. I didn’t even know I had preferences at that granularity. Those two on the plate were pretty close, just a few seconds more on the yolk to harden up the white around it.
January 29, 2012
Fried eggs, toast, pineapple, and coffee
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December 12, 2011
Salad, chicken, pasta, apple cake, and coffee
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I don’t often get to eat lunch with 1300 people at one time! I walked right up to the very front of the room so we could bask into the glow of the giant projector screen and got started on my salad course followed by my chicken course and then apple cake and also then coffee all very rapid like that because as soon as it looked like you might maybe potentially be done eating there went your plate, replaced by a new one. These folks have served lunch to 1300 people at one time before. The milk curdled in V.’s coffee so I used the other milk. V. got a new cup of coffee.
July 24, 2011
Ham and cheese croissant and coffee
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I slept about an hour on the plane, ended up in Iceland, trying to normalize to Greenwich Mean Time, ate lunch at my eight in the morning. My tongue feels dumb In my mouth, a big thick dumb thing, fearful and slow asking for coffee. I know everybody speaks English here, just like they do in Amsterdam and elsewhere, but that’s only kind of true, everybody’s speaking Icelandic to each other, don’t know why I can’t just assertively demand my lunch, shame about the hegemony I guess.
May 8, 2011
French toast, eggs, berries with cream, croissants, coffee, and a bloody mary
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So it’s January and I’m in NOLA visiting K., and we go out to dinner with K. and her new girlfriend, the girlfriend brings her friend from New York, we’re all talking, turns out J. knows M. from grad school at UNO years ago, there are four people in the world! Fast forward to May, M. has us both over for brunch in Bay Ridge, a place I had never been before. We ate and then took S. for a walk down by the water, perfect sky, a perfect perfect blue.
April 24, 2011
Turkey sandwich and an iced coffee
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Probably every city is like this, but New York City is extra-contrasty, standing eating my sandwich across from the theater, eyes up it’s all soaring iconic bridges and perfect sky, pull in your view and it’s abandoned Snapple bottles and scrap metal. I threw my own garbage away in the theater lobby and wondered, if you can just go whenever you want, is a ticket to a show even special anymore? And do they issue you those masculine loafers when you breach a certain income threshold?
February 2, 2011
Chickpeas with spinach and tomato, plus coffee
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Timing was such that eating during the meeting was unavoidable. I was responsible for agenda item number 2: The pop-up blocker in Internet Explorer on the third floor lab machines prevents students from downloading files from Blackboard, which particularly sucks when they need to print long PowerPoints and want to do multiple slides to a page. So you have to right-click on the pop-up blocker error message, click save, then open. If you try to just open it, you’ll be prompted to log in again and then it starts all over and you’re in this Blackboard-Internet Explorer-Pop Up Blocker feedback loop that will make you want to smash the third floor lab machines with a hammer. So. Right click. Save. Open. Print as a handout. And then I ceded the floor to C. and the even bigger ebrary-Horizon-GOBI problem.
December 19, 2010
Chorizo hash and a coffee
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And then I realized I was holding my head in my hands in front of a second cup of coffee at the bar and I wondered, have the contours really shifted at all in the last fifteen years? Am I in some Saturday afternoon movie about my life? Am I about to see a new character bust through that door and stop me cold? Or is this just a Sunday with the game on?
November 7, 2010
Mushroom tart and a coffee
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When I imagine myself at 80, I’m doing just this, using my membership card to get a discount on lunch at the musem cafe, reading the Sunday paper and having one more cup of coffee, in time to catch the free feminist shorts program in the afternoon.
August 10, 2010
Turkey sandwich, iced coffee, and an ice cream
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At the very beginning of the summer, the ice cream place by my house had this cherry chip ice cream that made me want to live again. I haven’t seen it since. Ambling home from a dud of a workdate with myself at the coffee place–not only did I get no reading done at all, the bread was just as stale–I stopped in just to see if by chance it was back. No cherry chip, but the softening last remnants of a bin of cherry chocolate almond. My god, all things that end up in my mouth should taste that good.
June 16, 2010
Favorite pork tacos. Favorite espresso. (Least favorite baristas, though.) Favorite kind of shopping, for gadgets of all styles and types. It is my special day, after all, every favorite thing one right after the other.
