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[dorchadas]

I made the first change in my lunch in five years, though it hasn't quite taken effect. Every day at work I have a steak salad with goat cheese and two vegetables chosen from tomatoes, carrots, cucumber, celery, zucchini, and mushrooms; a hard-boiled egg; and some dark chocolate. I decided to swap out the steak for roasted chicken and see if I like it, and if so, I'll switch over permanently. Enjoying the same food over and over saves me a lot of money--I've eaten the same breakfast for the last six years--but sometimes, a change is nice.

To my boundless surprise after my last post about it, the database upgrades apparently worked and it now runs as smooth as butter. Not a single crash or error yesterday or today. The real test is if it works through Friday. If so, I might be finally in the clear.

Might. I'm sure it'll be terrible in a couple months again.

I'm back to reading 世界の中心で while Aya-sensei is on vacation, and the protagonist is currently at a friend's house whose parents have a mussel farm. It means that there's a lot of animal-related terms that I have to keep stopping to look up. Sometimes I feel bad about about my animal-related Japanese vocabulary, and then I look up カワハギ and I realize I don't know what a thread-sail filefish is either. I at least know the common animals I'm likely to have to talk about in country living, like crows (烏), cranes (鶴), frogs (蛙), wild boar (猪), deer (鹿), cicadas (蝉), etc. You can just talk about fish by color, anyway, because that's all you can tell in a restaurant.

Exciting times.

Comments

[tilmon]

How has the lunch change been? Did you stick with it?

I've been considering doing something similar. I feel like, the older I get, the less variety in food I want. Instead, I want to eat what I know I will digest well and will leave me feeling satisfied and healthy.

[dorchadas]

The first couple of days I thought I'd only last until the chicken schoolpsychnerd had cooked up was done and then I'd go back to beef, but it's been growing on me since then. For the time being, at least, I'm going to stick with it.

I've never needed a lot of variation in my meals. Even a decade ago, I was eating the same thing every day for breakfast and taking the same lunch to work, though then it was crackers with hummus, cheese, and yogurt for breakfast and a sandwich with apple and chocolate for lunch. In contrast, schoolpsychnerd makes something new every week. I would hate that--eating the same breakfast is a kind of morning ritual that provides a calm space to help me face the day.