Mediocrepowers

[mrissa]

I love the first day I really, really don't feel sick any more except for a few lingering symptoms. It's like I got superpowers overnight. "Able to sort laundry in a single bound!" Hmm. So they're mediocrepowers, actually. But still: ability to accomplish stuff, oh hurrah.

The down side to waking up with markgritter's alarm on the days he's going to California--and being able to do stuff after a week of not--is that I am getting hungry for lunch now. Really hungry for lunch now. It is not yet 10:00 a.m. If I have lunch now, I will fall over on my head before the folks and Grandma and Johan get here for dinner. Lunch has to happen later. So now I have to figure out what I can have for a late morning snack. Which is a good problem to have, don't get me wrong--I've been sore-throated and vertigo-nauseated and generally not feeling like food, so wanting some more is good. It's just that which food may be a nontrivial problem.

Defaulting to hazelnuts may be one of my more spectacular mediocrepowers, actually. Defaults To Hazelnuts Woman To The Rescue! Needs A Semicolon To Survive Girl Is On The Case!

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Okay, this thing where "lunch has to happen later". I suggest that the social eating schedule must be considered to take at best second place, behind the need to maintain workable blood sugar levels. It sounds like you resolved this with a snack now, which seems reasonable; but I still wish to register a bit of a query about the apparent priorities you were expressing.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

In fact, "lunch has to happen later" was a very practical concern: even if we weren't having people for dinner, if I have dinner at 4:00, I will wake up tomorrow morning at 4:30 ready for breakfast. Which is not the desired outcome by any stretch.

The way to avoid this is to either have a substantial chunk of food in the middle of the day or, as I am in the middle of doing, have several smaller chunks of food in the middle of the day. So there were nuts and dried fruit at 10, and there was toast at noon, and there will probably be a bite of something else in a little bit here, and I will make it through to a dinnerish dinner that will allow me to sleep until a humanish hour thereby.