Is it bad that a lot of my posts have something to do with food? It's not like that is all I think about. It is a big part of my life - Americans spend an average of 67 minutes eating and drinking as a "primary" activity according to the American Time Use Survey of 2006. It doesn't seem like a lot - but if you factor in food preparation, going to the grocery store, making grocery lists and fantasizing about McDonald's, that's a lot of time.
Regardless, I really enjoyed my dinner tonight. Mostly because making, consuming and cleaning up gave me a big break from homework. I have a ridiculous amount of work to do this weekend. Most of that work involves my first real paper for graduate school. I'm kind of freaking out because it's math-based and I haven't taken a math class in 6 years. I did make some pretty cool graphs and tables, though. I think the hard part is over and the rest is just analytical, but I won't know if I did OK until I get it back. While freaking out initially I kept thinking that if this was what all the grad school papers will be like, then maybe I'm not really ready for it. I don't think they will all be this difficult. The biggest problem was that he only gave us one weeks notice and expected us to already know how to run the programs and do the math. Which of course I did not. Also, it was "partner optional" and of course I did not want a partner. Oh well, I'll get through it.
As for the photo and post title, dinner number one in my family consisted of baked chicken, baked potato and "shapes" (those frozen mixed veggies where carrots are in cubes, peas and corn in spheres and green beans in cylinders.) It was called dinner #1 because we had it once a week and it was the general favorite. My dinner tonight was pan-fried chicken, mashed potatoes and just plain old peas. It kind of felt like dinner #1 though, and it was delicious.
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