School, school, school. Ah, yes. The time of furrowing brows and punching pillows and going to sleep way later than your parents think you are.
Let me start off by saying that this year is hard. I have some teachers who I'd rather see in a hole than in a classroom and some classmates who seem to be itching for someone to chuck a stapler at them.
But there have been other, better things too. Like seeing all of my friends again, making new ones, and those lessons where you're actually fully engaged and you WANT to learn. Unfortunately, wanting to learn comes with a price, like giving up a lot of the things you used to do over the summer to focus on schoolwork. (For example, I should be doing my homework at the moment, but instead I am slowly tangling myself into a lethal web by spending this time blogging.)
I'm also in a play now, one of my favorites: Thoroughly Modern Millie. So that's been hard. Fun, of course, but hard all the same. But trust me, I've enjoyed every stressful, beautiful minute of it, and I only have one thing to say to this new year:
Let the procrastination and anxiety begin.
Now, on to the main point of this blog. Hard to believe I still haven't finished that challenge thing I set off to do what seems like decades ago. Nevertheless, stopping now would be like never finishing my novel: WHICH I SWEAR ON MY LIFE I WILL DO!
This time I'm meant to be naming my top 5 foods. A pretty general category, I think. Food? What does that mean? Dessert? I didn't write this challenge, I swear. Not that my own writing's any better.
I guess I can do any type of food in the universe. How about the best general categories of food/food tastes? Sounds pretty good.
Let's get on with it, shall we? In no extremely particular order:
1. Peanut Butter. Oh, yes. If I could live on any two foods in the world for the rest of my life, one would definitely be peanut butter. True, it's caused me many bloated troubles in the past (we have a love-hate relationship), when it comes down to it, peanut butter is my soulmate. I could really eat it with anything, but I think it's best on bread with what I'm about to mention, which is:
2. Bananas. You guessed it, bananas are my second undoing. I like them best when they're a bit more ripe and dotted with light specks of brown. Yum. With peanut butter, of course, the harmony is incomparable, but I'm totally okay eating a banana by itself. In fact, I'm eating a banana while I write this blog post. (Now you're all imagining me sitting here eating a banana. Ha, ha.) Point is, the taste is truly out of this world, and something that makes human life worth living.
3. Chicken and Broccoli from any Chinese restaurant. Yes, I know this is a pretty general term, but if you've been to a REALLY good Chinese restaurant (and by really good I mean okay), then you'll know what I'm referring to: those thick, luscious globs of meat and vegetables soaked in a creamy brown sauce that's pretty much heaven on Earth. The scary thing is that I could probably eat this for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, every single day of my life (paired with a peanut-butter banana, of course.)
4. Cupcakes. And I'm not talking those shitty ones you buy at Giant that look far too yellow to even exist. I mean fresh out of the oven, made not by me (because we all know THAT would be a disaster), but by someone from Fraiche Cupcakery or Sprinkles or Georgetown Cupcake (the latter is my favorite). Peanut butter is generally my favorite flavour, but I don't mind a little red velvet or coconut every now and then. I'm not that hard to please. Just put some cake in a piece of paper and I'm good to go.
5. Finally, seafood. I am a very fishy person. My favorite is probably crab or some tilapia with ginger sauce (mmmm) but frankly, I'd take anything from mussels to salmon to squid to snails (are snails a seafood? Whatever, I like them). Fish is, quite literally, delish. If you ever plan on taking me out on a date (because I know you're all so turned on by my nerdy fish cravings), then take me to a seafood restaurant, because I will probably fall in love with you by the end of the night. It also helps if you pay.
All right, you guessed it. This is the awkward part of the blog where I try to wrap things up in a eloquent package but usually fail miserably. Well, just to keep you on your toes, this time I won't try to make a thoughtful conclusion or just generally make anyone groan by writing an entire paragraph that has nothing to do with the rest of the post.
(Oops.)
Well, see you all later!
(Nailed it.)
A picture I took. (I know, I'm so artistic it hurts.)
