The Real World is kind of Soupy

Today was the nonchalant beginning of the rest of my life. Figuratively speaking. I was at work for what I suspect may be my career. Trying to avoid all of that I was speaking to Josh through Meebo and he greeted me to the 'Real World', at the same time warning me that it would get 'kind of samey'.

Not to worry, I believed, I'll be able to spice it up with the same jazz I've applied to every other bland meal that fate has dished up.

Seeing that my first day out of higher education was, ironically, spent training in diluted amounts I was afforded the chance to peruse for lunch. This, perhaps by design, took longer than expected and so I found myself in the bowels of Woolworths, Rundle Mall with a very angry stomach and cans of chunky soup for $1.99 each. Of course I reasoned I could finish two cans. This week I'm all about reaching lofty goals. I bought a bread roll as well.

By 2pm, after not finding a large enough bowl in any of the kitchenettes and resorting to a Tupperware cake container I found in the trays and jugs section, I had 8 minutes worth of boiling soup: 130mls heated per minute. I also had one semi-large tea-spoon. It was the best implement I'd found during that eighth of an hour microwaving. 30 seconds later that spoon was submerged somewhere in a pool of chunky potato and bacon soup and I was digging it out with a pair of paddle-pop sticks.

After the hour it took me to finish that soup I realised that, yes, the soup was bland. But as usual something had come along to spice up my life once again. Then I caught the early train home.

Comments

Zippo

You should travel. :D

June 20 2007 - Like
tristan

Ah, the joy of innocence. You never guess how much you're going to miss university...

June 20 2007 - Like
Brad

After 18 months of work now I have a fairly good idea of how much I'm going to miss it. Unless it gets worse. Oh God it gets worse doesn't it!?

June 20 2007 - Like
Kevin Pietersen

Haha, potato and bacon. I prefer potato and leak soup. Crutons are good too.

June 20 2007 - Like
Kevin Pietersen

Actually, I quite like bacon

June 20 2007 - Like
Kevin Pietersen

Oh yeah, 3-0. Take that West Indian pie floaters.

June 20 2007 - Like
Greg Blewett

Get a haircut KP.

June 20 2007 - Like
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