1. Make sure your salad is first rate to begin with. I recommend your finer greens with a solid heap of arugula, blood oranges, fennel, celery, those sweet little Armenian cucumbers, and a blue cheese vinaigrette.
2. Make sure there's a lot of salad. Lots of it.
3. Let it sit in your office awhile. I don't know, hours.
4. Do the student consultations for two hours.
5. Go to the writing center for one hour.
6. Think about retrieving the salad from your office before you go to a meeting, but then remember: you can only slide in for about 25 minutes of the meeting, and fetching the salad will make you late. So: no salad.
7. Go teach a workshop for an hour and a half.
8. NOW fetch the salad.
9. It's four o'clock? SO WHAT. At room, which is to say office, temperature, marinating (let's be honest) in its little tupperware, this salad is going to taste like God's own culinary masterpiece.
10. Don't bother eating like a lady. You're ravenous! Fork that salad in.
11. It's the state of ravenousness--that's what makes the salad amazing. Thrilling. Spectacular!
12. Go ahead and eat the salad with a chaser of Greek yogurt. Why not?
13. The deferred salad will power you through your four o'clock meeting, although not without a small bout of despair, a tiny internal meltdown, and a miraculous recovery, all within the space of a nanosecond. Your mileage may vary--I'm just going on what happened while I ate my four o'clock salad.
14. The postponed salad, plus yogurt chaser, will power you through your second workout. That's because you are t-o-u-g-h tough.
15. And then, when you get home, sweaty and triumphant, leftover Indian food will totally seal the deal, hunger-wise.
Me! I'm eating salads for lunch! Yours sounds sooooo good.
ReplyDeleteSalads will save us all. But 4 o'clock salad. That is a hard won salad.
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