Embarrassing?

What I had for lunch

A post over at Kathryn on about weird diets had a strange effect on me. After reading it and commenting, I suddenly had a huge craving for mcdonalds. I have a love/hate relationship with McDonalds. Love the food, hate everything else about it. I eat it maybe 3 times a year, usually when I have a wicked hangover. Today, however, I am not hungover (one glass of wine with dinner and in bed by 10:15 last night, almost unheard for me); there’s just something about discussing flaxseed diets that makes me want to do the exact opposite. For the record, there is a McDonald’s less than about 100 feet from my office, so I think I’m pretty restrained in keeping my consumption to a minimum. I was very polite to the cashier, bryc3, but she didn’t offer me any extra straws.

One problem with eating McDonalds at work is that I don’t want anyone to see me eating McDonalds. I managed to sneak out without seeing anyone, but I ran into a co-worker on the elevator on my way back to work. Slightly embarrassing. He’s probably a fifth-level vegan or something.

On the agenda for this evening

Tonight, I’m going to see the Get Up Kids. It’s somewhat unexpected. The story is: A few weeks back, bryc3 informed that the Get Up Kids were doing a farewell tour and would be at the 9:30 on June 22. Since I live reasonably close to the 9:30, I said I would get tickets. Unfortunately, I dawdled and procrastinated and just plain forgot about it, and they sold out. Some tickets became available and were snatched up (not by me), and now we are going, which is good since I was feeling very guilty about robbing bryc3 of his last chance to see them. bryc3 and I (and a couple of others) saw them maybe 4 years ago at the 9:30, and it was an amazing show. I’m hoping tonight will live up to that.

Toto lovin'

A while back, there was some discussion of Toto at Kathryn on. It inspired me to order Toto’s Super Hits from Amazon, and let me tell, that was $7 well spent. It’s got “Hold the Line,” “Rosanna,” and “Africa” (and a bunch of other songs I’d never heard and don’t care about at all). It’s like it’s 1982 all over again. Did you know that Toto won six Grammys in 1983? I didn’t either, until I bought this fine collection.