Drabbles

• Yesterday neither of us had school, but there wasn't any active snowfall, so we went on another grocery expedition. We didn't have any immediate needs, but I couldn't handle being the apartment all day for the fourth day in a row. The store was even crazier than the pre-storm stock up session. I've never seen so many entirely empty shelves. We ended up just getting floss, peperoni and tomatoes - mostly because those were some of our only options. The lines for checkout went all the way to the back of the store. Fortunately, we ended up chatting with an Australian guy. And when I say he was Australian, I mean full out Australian. Not only did he have the great accent, but he had this outback looking shaggy coat on, plus he made fun of American football (he's right - compared to rugby, it is kind of pathetic). I half expected him to pull out a bowie knife at some point. Oh, he was also hot in a rugged sort of way (although lets face it, any decent looking guy with a great accent is hot). Mostly it was just fun to have some company. Its easy to feel a little isolated sometimes, especially in a city like DC where people tend to be kind of uptight (poor social skills don't help either). I love meeting people who are just effortlessly enjoyable to be with - it's a skill I hope I can develop.

• It's a good thing we went escaped for a brief moment when we did, because somehow the 4-8" we were supposed to get today has turned into a crazy blizzard. I can barely see out the window. I tried taking a picture for your visual enjoyment, but then decided no one was interested in seeing a grainy white blur. 

• I never though I would say it, but I kind of miss school. I'm not good without structure. When I feel like I have all the time in the world, it's hard to get motivated to actually do anything. 

• Although, I did manage to get motivated enough to make banana bread out of the sad black bananas I've been meaning to turn into bread all week. There were too many bananas for one batch, but too few to double. So I made a 1.5 batch, with the .5 becoming muffins. I also remembered that part of the reason I went into law was that I thought it would require less math skills than other more businessey professions. (I was wrong about that. Law is all about money. Just like everything else.) My efforts to up the recipe by 1.5 weren't the most successful. I'm not sure what I did wrong exactly, but that bread is really salty and kind of greasy. The salt part isn't that shocking, as I'm not sure how to do 1.5 pinches of salt, but the greasy part is odd considering I replaced half the butter with low-fat yogurt. This is why I avoid baking in general, and experimental baking in particular. Oh well, smother the bread with enough butter and honey, and it's fine. 

• That's pretty much it. Let's see if I can motivate myself into doing something somewhat productive, especially considering I have no idea when I'll be able to rejoin the outside world again.