funnies and breakfast

[verbicide]

Roly, I'm not sure if you'll find this funny or upsetting, but I present some dark amusement (provided courtesy of Jeff):

Garfield without Garfield—a "comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life."

In other news, I've never been a breakfast person. I love breakfast foods, but not, you know, in the morning.

Now that I wake up at obscenely early hours, I'm finding that I'm hungrier a lot earlier in the day. I used to get up around 8, roll into work at 9, and just wait for lunch at 11:30. Now I wake up at 6, leave for the bus at 7, and am desperately hungry by 9.

(Though, not always. Sometimes I forget to connect the dots. I didn't eat very much yesterday. The grilled cheese I had with Pete was pretty snack-sized and it's all I had for dinner.)

I keep trying to ignore it, hoping it'll go away, and thinking that my standard 11:30 lunch will be soon enough. But some days I am just too freaking ravenous. Like, for example, today. I finally realized that it was insane to sit here unable to focus on anything except my gnawing, desperate appetite, and wandered over to Starbucks for a life-saving breakfast sandwich and some chocolate milk. Of course when I do eat breakfast at 9, I don't want lunch, and forget to eat again until I get home and am ready to gnaw on furniture.

Regardless, it is now actually humanly possible for me to do some work. (Which is why I'm spending my time on LJ, yes, yes, exactly.)

I don't need to do and I am too cheap to buy breakfast every day, so I need to think of a more reasonable solution. Still am not sure I can eat at home before I leave for the bus, though. That's too organized or something.

Also, do you ever wake up and realize that you're exactly the kind of person that is causing the downfall of the entire planet? I'm the very environment-destroying, single-disposable-serving-loving, convenience junkie that this country has trampled over the earth to satisfy. And I swear I didn't know what I was doing. I recycle. I favor public transport largely for civic and environmental reasons.

I'm trying to make more responsible choices. Organic, free-range meats and dairy. Supporting local businesses and farms. Plastic plates instead of paper for BBQs. I take 6 minute showers.

But really, I don't want to buy a box of cereal because then I'll have to wash a dirty bowl instead of tossing away the paper wrap from a sandwich. Sad, huh?

Anyhow, in other exciting news, Sarah and I are going out to dinner tonight to celebrate her eleven-hundredth promotion at work. She is a total rockstar. I haven't been to Jak's in ages, and I can't wait.

Comments

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

Poor Jon - so demented w/out Garfield!!!

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Sad, huh! :)

[margotheangel.livejournal.com]

A couple girls here at work keep boxes of cereal at work and bring in a quart of milk every week or so, so that they can just eat at work. I have a container of oatmeal and brown sugar (although it's a pain to clean my mug after oatmeal). Brian likes to go to Costco or Sam's Club and buy their muffins, cut them in half, and freeze them (we freeze them in individual freezer Ziploc bags). Then you just pull one out and let it sit for an hour or two, or microwave it if you want it immediately...

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

I have been thinking about bringing cereal to work, because they have milk and bowls here. But we'll see. Oatmeal is too painful to clean and the bowl I had the last attempt in three weeks ago is still on my desk. :)

[margotheangel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, mine sits for a while sometimes. The trick is to either wash it right away or put some crazy-hot water in it and leave it for half an hour before you clean it. But I'm still too lazy a lot of times.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Likewise :)

[trtle.livejournal.com]

My coworker and I have both posted Garfield without Garfield strips in our office....so thanks for sharing!

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Awesome :)

[brabble.livejournal.com]

*jawdrop*

_I_ just discovered Garfield without Garfield yesterday, courtesy of Matt! And I love it.

And Jak's was awesome. Thanks for hanging in there while I finished 3 liters of wine :)

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

*grin* How funny, huh? How these things spread?

And Jak's was totally awesome! --and now.... *THUD*

[neojima.livejournal.com]

Garfield without Garfield—a "comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life."

I'd seen a version where Garfield's thought balloons were removed (because, after all, Jon can't hear those!), but not sans Garfield altogether. It seems even more tragic.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

That would be pretty tragic!