Today was a pretty average day. We had one of our regular “brown bag lunches” at work, where they invite a speaker and give us free food for attending, but I decided to skip this one. It was about “Meals Off the Clock: Tips for Cooking During the Work Week,” and going for a walk on my lunch break seemed like the better option. I don’t do a lot of cooking, to be honest. When I was single, living on my own, it often wasn’t much fun making a big production out of a meal for one person, and now that I live with my parents, dinner is usually more of a collaborative effort. I have been looking into moving out recently, in that hesitant oh-my-god-is-that-really-how-much-these-apartments-cost kind of way. So I could maybe use some tips for stretching a dollar and still eating well. But the weather was nice enough that a walk seemed like more fun. The lunches in general are a pretty mixed bag; some have been pretty great, some not so much, and you never know what you’re going to get until you’re trapped there for the hour or more.
Other than that, it was just a lot more of the same. All the trains out of Manhattan were delayed this evening, apparently because one hit a pedestrian in Kew Gardens. I haven’t been able to find out any more information since, but that’s what we were told over the PA system: police activity following an unauthorized person being hit by a train. Almost certainly a suicide attempt, and almost certainly a successful one, or at least that seems to be the consensus here, which is just a shame if it’s true. My own train was forty minutes late because of the delays, and I had to go pick up my mother in Hicksville. (She doesn’t work in Manhattan but had to go in today, and she got the wrong train coming home.)
And that was my Wednesday. I’m only working four days this week, so tomorrow is pretty much my Friday. I’m looking forward to that!
I’m deeply envious of a) your greenery, b) the implied warm weather, and c) brown bag lunch sessions that aren’t webinars in disguise.