minimize interruptions
I realized something just now - something my mother would love to hear, and which will make just about everyone else go “um… duh? Okay, whatever.”
I realized that I really like cooking.
For starters, it’s a really great way to eat up (no pun intended) as much or as little spare time as you’ve got lying around, plus it has clear benefits after the fact in the form of leftovers. And if it’s low-impact, easy cooking, you can do it while doing something else - watching seventeen episodes of Scrubs, for example, not that I’ve done that, or listening to music.
I realized this on my walk home from class this morning, when I was stressing a little bit about how my evening’s going to go. I have a meeting at 5:00 followed directly by auditions at 6, in which I have to sit for a good five hours. I was thinking about how much work I have to do (because I was right about yesterday, I didn’t get anything done) and how I’m barely going to have time to eat (I used to be able to eat dinner at 4:45, but now that I’m out of the dining halls, dinner time is much closer to 8:00 for). Then it dawned on me that I can make use of the five hours sitting in auditions by reading (because I don’t actually have to make any casting decisions. The whole process is quite mindless for me).
And once I was hip to the concept of multitasking in auditions, dinner followed quickly behind.
So I was standing in my kitchen cooking up a pot of rice (that awesome dirty rice mix from a box, a brand that starts with a Z, Zatarain’s, or something) and making chickie dickie (this is a family secret, I have just decided) and slicing stuff up for a sandwich for immediate consumption, I realized that I was having a really good time.
I wasn’t doing anything particularly complicated - I think the highest degree of difficulty I ever attained was stirring the rice and eating my sandwich at the same time - but I really did enjoy it. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that my kitchen/living room wall is basically made of windows, and I have a really nice view. It isn’t of anything special - just the alley and some parking lots - but my building is on the west side of the block and I can see all the way to the southeast corner. It’s not a great view, but it’s a long one, a sweeping vista if you will, which makes it seem all the better. That coupled with the fact that the sky is a gorgeous blue today and with the fact that I’ve got a great set of speakers for my iPod in the kitchen made the whole time a great experience.
And now I’m happily full and I’ve got a dinner all packed to bring to school tonight so I won’t have to spend eight bucks on something nasty at Norris.
This gives me an idea for a future post, too, about my favorite cooking music.
I’ll save it for later.
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2 Responses to “minimize interruptions”
All Hail the Wall of Text
But Chickie Dickie rulz.
Maybe you should take pictures of your culinary creations, especially since you’ve got all that natural light streaming in, to make photography easier. I’m going to tell Mom you eat rice.
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