Stress and Chickpea Salads
So today at 1, I have a meeting with Ruth to go over this one project I'm supposed to have been working on all summer. Yeah, I started yesterday at 6 pm. I had to take it home because yesterday I got so distracted with my other project and Inception. Damn you internets for providing me with such crack.
Yesterday I was so stressed when my mom came in at 8:30 to ask if I wanted dinner that I actually flat out told her that she had 5 seconds to vacate my room or I would say something we'd both regret. So, from 6pm to 2am I worked on this with a 20 minute break to run out for butter and 10 minutes to start baking shortbread.
Mmm shortbread. I love the recipe I have for it.
I finished the really finnicky part of the work that was taking me ages (though sorting through 8,000+ lines of excel data will always take time). But at 1:30 I finished that first part. The rest of the sorting took 30 minutes. In total. 30 more minutes this morning making it look pretty and I'm left wondering why I was freaking out so much. I can be such an idiot sometimes. I still have 3 hours til the meeting.
This was a good life lesson in how internet distractions are alright as long as you don't have a LOOMING deadline with someone you actually want to impress.
The fact that I have shortbread to give her if I have disappointed her is purely on a backup measure. Can't be too unprepared.
Yesterday I had 2 different chickpea salads, one for lunch, and one for dinner. I hadn't planned it but damn, a good chickpea salad is really one of the best good for you things. For lunch I bought a chickpea salad I know I can recreate. It was just chickpeas, diced cucumber, diced tomatoes, onions, croutons, hard boiled egg whites with a light vinegrette. This is totally reproducable and gives me a good reason to learn a few good homemade vinegrettes (which I know are dead simple but they seem really fancy when you make your own dressings from scratch - at least in my family).
For dinner I had my own tried and true. It takes 2 minutes to prepare and only has 5 ingredients. 1 can of chickpeas drained and rinsed, a lug and a bit of olive oil, half a lemon squeezed, a few shakes of salt, a generous handful of a harder cheese like asiago or a leafed parmesan. Eat then or cover and put in the fridge for later. I like it a little cold or even room temp but not warm. I don't like warm chickpea salads.
Now I am not doing the other two projects I have to finish by Friday. It seems that when I learn a life lesson, I tend to just forget it hours later. I blame degrassi. It taught me all about the shit I could get into and by the next episode, everything was mostly okay again - no matter what happened. Has anyone seen the latest seasons of Degrassi TNG - I stopped watching when all the kids who I went through grade 8 to 12 with as they went through it too graduated. So the past 5 seasons I'm ignorant on. Is it still wonderfully awful?