Today Jochem cooked me a Thai curry with a few shrimp and lots of peas, which were kind of overwhelming. I wished I could have helped him cook, but of course he had to work late and since he keeps insisting on bringing homemade food to work instead of eating what the normal people eat there, he made my portion in advance.
I was really glad about that because I had a BUSY day at work. The kind of busy that makes you suddenly sit up, look around, and wonder: where the [peep] did my afternoon go?! But also the kind of busy that makes you look haggard after 8 hours. You see, my colleague was sick. And my other colleague always has the day off on Wednesday. And when I walked into that office at 10 AM a lot of other co-workers were sick that I needed to arrange substitute colleagues for. And then there were a billion other errands to run and one mailbox that just never seemed to grow smaller. Oh, and I had to answer the phone. And get the mail. And go grocery shopping. And prepare lunch. And clean up after lunch.
Actually, I always have to do all of these things every single day, but not by myself. I just never got around to doing my usual duties and I may have made some mistakes here and there, which is just so friggin' scary. I just hope that my colleagues won't have to spend all day tomorrow cleaning all my messes.
And now I get to go to bed early and stress about applying for an Indian visa (no comment) and spend all day tomorrow trying to get it from the embassy in the Hague (sigh, still no comment), so that Jochem and I can spend a romantic, tropical Christmas holiday together in Goa. More on that tomorrow!
Source: Cooking Know-How by Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarborough
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