Great Expectations

The lasagna was not life-changing, nor the best thing I've ever tasted - just a few of the reviews I read about it on Allrecipes.com.

The recipe bugs me because I knew you couldn't do that much prep work in 15 minutes. Mine took 45 and that was with Plus One helping to chop the veggies. Sometimes I think the posters want to show off their skills and pretend they're faster at slicing and dicing.

I would make the lasagna again but with a number of changes. I would do half the meat and double or even triple the vegetables. I would also make the veg pieces larger (we cut them to quarter inches...) so each bite had more texture. Instead of no-cook lasagna noodles, I would take the time to boil regular ones. And in the baking process, I would cover it for the first 45 minutes to keep in the moisture, and then remove the foil for the last 15 minutes to brown the top.

After dinner we took a walk in the not-quite-yet-East-Coast-Spring-weather. I then worked on my paper job applications. In summary, applying for jobs so drastically beneath your skill set and experience is confounding to the brain. I spent A LOT of time thinking about how my former employers would react if they received a call from someone at the sandwich place, for example. Would they laugh? Share the news with my former coworkers? Smirk? be confused? Even care?

The whole thing takes you down the path of identity politics and career-oriented life progression. (I just made up those two terms but I think you get my drift.)

I tried typing more but it started to get cliche, so I deleted it and am now signing-off because my computer needs a break from me. And I, from it.