Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Tuesday, July 27, 2004 The Pitch: It's Like Requiem for a Dream meets Ghostbusters! Didn't post yesterday because I was struggling with the horrible miasmatic tendrils of addiction. But it's now been almost seventy-two hours without an apple fritter, and I think I'm going to be okay.After all, I managed to--not once, but twice--go to work and not give in to the fried and sugar glazed vulgarity that is....that is.....(Dear God, stay strong!) It's quite the achievement when you think of it. I pass one Chinese Food Doughnut shop on my walk to BART (on the smallish side, but fresh), and then on the way from BART to work, one dour looking Happy Doughnuts (fresh, skimpy on the apples, but big, sell out quick), three Starbucks (uniformly stale, but with a decent apple count, widely available), Lee's Deli (irregularly offered, highly variable in freshness and size) and the newly opened 7-Eleven (best I had discovered yet: crisp, large, fresh, maybe a bit low on the apples but who's complaining, available even after lunch). It was this last store, discovered at the tail end of my addiction that kept me from quitting for another week or two: how could I quit after I had found my Apple Fritter Mecca? After all those afternoons settling for a stale Starbucks hand-me-down? Yeah, I think the monkey's off my back. I only think of it once or twice each morning, and only after lunch...and when I just get off work...and during the quiet moments at work between 8:00 and noon, and maybe 4:00 to 6:00 if I didn't pick up a dessert after lunch. Sadly, my Proustian analysis of fritterian delectation will have to wait, as I am at work, and somebody who can't be arsed to listen to a voicemail and write down a phone number has forwarded me something to transcribe. But it's not because I'm leaving now to go to that 7-Eleven. No, no, no. I assure you I am not. No, no, no, no, no, no. No. I hope. posted by Jeff Lester | 8:23 AM | |
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