Today I had only toast and coffee for breakfast, started work at 8 and didn't get around to taking my lunch until about 2 after running some errands, so I was absolutely starving. I wanted to go to Tim Horton's for lunch but I didn't want to pass through 20 minutes worth of gridlock road construction to get there, so I drove 15 km out of my way to circle around it, only to end up on the wrong side of the construction zone - the Tim Hortons was on the side I started on and I was on the side where I work again. There wasn't anywhere to eat on my side - I pulled into something that looked like a cafe but it was just a roadside produce stand, so I had to buy a bunch of dirty, small carrots and an apple so I wouldn't look like a complete **** for strolling in. Then I found a bakery but they only had one muffin. One. Pumpkin. Muffin. That and a handful of sickly sweet, tiny, fancy, expensive cakes drowned in icing. I bought the muffin because I didn't want to look like a complete **** for strolling in.
After "lunch" I was still starving, but I didn't get another chance to eat until after 8PM because I had to teach music lessons right after work, then meet my neurotic ex boss in the dark in a seedy Pharmasave parking lot in the middle of nowhere to get an envelope full of money. So when I met her, I was white as a sheet and shaking like a leaf from malnourishment, so it probably looked to outside observers like a drug deal, and looked to her like I was scared or ashamed.
Plus, I already HAVE about a million dirty, small carrots that I grew in a washtub on the balcony.
Now I had dinner but I'm still hungry and I'm too tired to make more dinner. Bugger this for a game of soldiers: tomorrow I'm stuffing a box of nuts into my purse.
