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March 5 2007

Salad Days

There are probably a bazillion things I should be worried about today, it being my first day at the new job and all, but I have decided to obsess about only one: lunch. More specifically, I am worried about making room in the fridge for my huge lunch box.

I am a salad junky. We go through two of those big tubs of greens each week, and RT eats only a tiny bit of it, mostly as a sandwich thing. This particular predilection means that carrying a regular lunch sack is out of the question. Instead I have what someone might call a lunch suitcase.

My plan is to leave my lunch in the car, scope out the refrigerator, and if it appears there is room for my valise, I will go to the car and retrieve it. If there is not quite enough space, I will start small, mebbe with the mini can of tuna and the cottage cheese that are meant to go into the salad, and slowly, day-by-day, claim ever increasing amounts of fridge territory until no one questions my shelf-space entitlement.

OK, I know I'm busted. No one really thinks this is about my big salads, do they?

In truth, I am making peace with something else, using lunch as a metaphor. I can deal with the problem of introducing my noon meal into the mix, but what I am really concerned about is introducing myself. I'm told I can be a bit overwhelming. Imagine that?

Actually, this is not the problem it used to be. I am considerably less flamboyant that I was earlier in my career. I also don't look particularly threatening, oldish lady that I am. Folks may marvel at my kelly green runners (not sure if they are a Day 1 item, yet) but I can pass for sorta smart and sorta nice, well, most of the time.

These days, I'm a little softer around the edges. I've somehow learnt that it is a whole lot easier to start with cottage cheese and add the arugula and baby dill in later.

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#1 05 March 2007 - 04:33

great strategy. as they get to know you and like you, they will become endeared to your eccentricities (as you begin to escalate from one to another)!

howard

#2 05 March 2007 - 04:44

Me, escalate, nevah. I just become more, urmmm, revealing as time goes on. If I do that well, folks find me down right lovable.

v

taming

#3 05 March 2007 - 05:17

They're gonna love you, just like we do. And you've made me hungry. Mind sharing your salad ingredients a bit more? I'm trying to come up with more healthy meal ideas, and we like salads but need variety.

InMyLife

#4 05 March 2007 - 05:17

Oh, and best of luck on your new venture, although you don't really need luck.

InMyLife

#5 06 March 2007 - 11:44

Cooler bag and gel ice pack should get you through until lunch, office fridges are usually foul and smelly anyway. One designed to carry a 6 pack of beer should take a fair bit of salad as the can of tuna doesn't need to be in there.

love
your friend from the land up over.

Anonymous

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