the bends
Last night around 10:30 as I was reading in bed, I suddenly got famished to the point of shakiness despite having a bowl of cereal a couple hours earlier. Not wanting to eat right before sleep, I was torn between ignoring the urge or giving in to it. In the end, I felt much better for having a can of diet Pepsi and half a container of cottage cheese.
Cottage cheese, of course, is the food God developed specifically to torture women, to make them keen with yearning. Picture it on a plate, lumpy and bland atop a limp lettuce leaf and half a canned peach. Consider the taste and feel of it: wet, bitter little curds. Now compare it to the real thing: a thick, oozing slab of brie, or a dense and silky smear of cream cheese. Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: THIS SUBSTANCE IS SELF-PUNITIVE; INGEST WITH CAUTION.
~ Caroline Knapp, Appetites: Why Women Want
Bruce returned to work today though he's still not feeling well. I wasn't unsympathetic nor overly sympathetic either, taking a neutral stance. What I really wanted to do most was crank up some Radiohead: You do it to yourself, you do, and that's what really hurts, is you do it to yourseeeeeelf. Instead, I brought it to work.
Things to look forward to this week in chronological order: warm weather, wearing skirts w/out nylons, free lunch just snacks, Scrubs, exercise bike, more reading, meeting the girls at The C&B, yoga class, Schwan's delivery, Survivor, casual attire and early dismissal.
Cottage cheese, of course, is the food God developed specifically to torture women, to make them keen with yearning. Picture it on a plate, lumpy and bland atop a limp lettuce leaf and half a canned peach. Consider the taste and feel of it: wet, bitter little curds. Now compare it to the real thing: a thick, oozing slab of brie, or a dense and silky smear of cream cheese. Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: THIS SUBSTANCE IS SELF-PUNITIVE; INGEST WITH CAUTION.
~ Caroline Knapp, Appetites: Why Women Want
Bruce returned to work today though he's still not feeling well. I wasn't unsympathetic nor overly sympathetic either, taking a neutral stance. What I really wanted to do most was crank up some Radiohead: You do it to yourself, you do, and that's what really hurts, is you do it to yourseeeeeelf. Instead, I brought it to work.
Things to look forward to this week in chronological order: warm weather, wearing skirts w/out nylons, free lunch just snacks, Scrubs, exercise bike, more reading, meeting the girls at The C&B, yoga class, Schwan's delivery, Survivor, casual attire and early dismissal.