Not like the kind of roast where we all get to make fun of someone. But the kind where you roast a chicken. It smells abominably amazing. Like nothing should be allowed to smell this good.
I love cooking after work. Maybe it's the fact that I'm moving towards the stage of life where I need to get out of the office, take my shoes off, be plumped with child, and honor my husband, but cooking is fucking awesome. And I'm pretty impressed with how good I am at it. That's not even a sales pitch, fellas. It's the God's honest truth about the situation I got going on.
Check out the pre-bird:
Yeah. That's fucking bacon. Bacon in everything. Bacon on chicken. Bacon in soups. Bacon in ice cream. Bacon bacon all day bacon. I love it. I try not to eat it. But it has its place, and that place is almost anywhere I can think to put it.
So we'll see how this goes over. In the meantime, I'm going to smell the delectable whiffers of this bacon chicken stuffed with lemons and surrounded by root veggies as I click away in front of a screen that I dont really want to be in front of.
Screens. My life currently revolves around screens. I sit in front of a screen all day at work, self-learning the intricacies of Excel and loathing my current place in the world. It's ok, I have about three months left of this rotation, and I think I can do it. I think I can beat this one to the punch. But I cant say its not gonna suck doing it.
I think it's weird that when I thought I was at the peak of my quarter-life crisis, it was simply more of the quarter-life process and I think I'm now on the tail-end (fingers crossed) of the crisis as I move ahead into the summer months of 2010.
Things have never been this strange for me. Everything is new.
Living by myself? New. Never done this before. Working more than full-time?? Yeah, I mean I've kind of done it, but it was working in summer camp so that really doesnt count. I mean, that shit was fun. This...is real. Being away from people?? Havent really done this either. In college, there was a built-in system of people that you inevitably had to face every day. Between school and polo and work, I had so many different experiences over the course of each day that nothing was the same. Comedy?? Well, talk about new territory. I'm a fledgling in all aspects.
And essentially what has happened is that all the structure was pulled from my life. The structure of school. The living structure of roommates. The structure of finances that I had been used to. The structure of my work environment. All gone.
I've been taking an improv class at the Bovine Metropolis Theatre downtown, and we recently had our last class for the first session. It's been interesting because I had felt a bit of a disconnect from the class until last night. It was like something had magically kicked into gear, and all of the sudden the group was hilarious.
And in a moment of epiphany that caught me by surprise, I realized that we werent funny all of the sudden, but that all of the rules were finally staunchly in place for us, the structure had been set, and within the confines of structure and rules, the funny developed.
PS I just ate some of that bacon. Amazing.
But yeah. There was freedom that came with structure. Like any sport, the fundamentals are where every beginner starts. And boy howdy, am I there.
At this point, I've learning fundamentals in nearly every aspect of the game of life. Work. Personal life. Comedy. Whatever. So, with a bit of NiCoolio back on the rise, time to put the "fun" in fundamentals.
As for tonight, I'm going to finish roasting this bird and hit the hay early.
Three day wkend on the rise!
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