Actually Cooking for a Change

Posted on 2008/03/02 10:24:19 (March 2008).

[Thursday 28th February]
Tonight was the first night this week that we actually cooked dinner at home, and the cupboards are consequently looking very understocked. So I resorted to the old stalwart - spaghetti with some pasta sauce out of a jar. Not really sure if this qualifies as cooking per se, it's really more like rehydrating / reheating. Still, it did something to alleviate my sense of decadence / laziness at would otherwise could have been a week where I ate out pretty much every day.

Other than that, not much to report. I watched an episode of The Big Bang Theory. It's a sitcom about nerds. I ought to find this culturally offensive, given that it is, in essence, a formulaic shovelling of tired old clichés about the geekier members of our society. Somehow though I am still compelled to watch it - this being now something like the third episode I've seen.

As always with American sitcoms I experienced the sense of bewilderment at how, regardless of occupation, everyone on TV in the US seems to live in a spacious apartment (nicely parodied on Futurama the other day - "do they have any idea how much an apartment of that size on the sun costs"?). Fittingly my continual paranoia about under achieving swept aside the clearly implausible nature of this, and came instead to conclude that the rest of the world did live in nicer houses than I did.

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