So I've been at a new job for about three months now, and if I ever complained about working late at my old job, I shouldn't have. My schedule at my current job actually requires me to work longer hours, at least on a per-day average. (Not to mention that I have no time to procrastinate by constantly checking email or IM'ing--or blogging, for that matter!) I haven't been to my beloved step class in maybe a month, and I've had to cut out some extracurricular activities from my schedule, primarily because my new job is more client-driven, and as such my excuse for staying late is actually valid, versus my previous excuse of "I just took two hours to run to soho for a lunch shopping excursion so now I'm paying for it."
Anyway, one of the things that I've noticed about myself is that I have a keen survival instinct: my ability to fuel myself with really bad and random food. When I work late at night I tend to not eat real food when I get home because it's just too late for a full meal. The one good thing is that I have a cafeteria at work, which I go to everyday at lunch and make sure to pile up on healthy things like spinach (which strategically cover up fried mozzarella sticks and waffle fries). But then when I eat late night dinners, I'll piece together random snacks that have no business going together. To me it makes perfect sense, but I'm sure would only induce looks of disgust to anyone else.
Like tonight--around 8 pm while I was still at work I ate a bag of Chex mix from the vending machine. Then when I got home around 11, I ate a single-size cup of cottage cheese with sweet relish, followed by a handful of grapes. It's times like these when I wish I worked at a place like Google, which serves free breakfast, lunch and dinner to their employees. Some people think this is a ploy to keep employees at work all the time and trapped in the office. But the truth of the matter is, I eat lunch at my desk everyday anyway and stay late at least once a week, so I may as well get food while I'm at it. Harrumph.
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dude, the cottage cheese and relish sounds disgusting! haha. hope your workload eases up soon and that u have time to do stuff that u really like to do. ps: not sure if you knew, but my blog has changed - it now has two co-authors - my brother and nick. haha.
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