verbicide | funnies and breakfast

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.