The stuff that gets dropped

The last few weeks I've been pushing up against thesis deadlines to have my M.Sc. completed by the end of the year, and that's resulted in a few normal activities getting pushed aside. I tend to read just about anything that crosses my path, and one such book that I acquired a few weeks back falls into that "strange but interesting" category. The book in question is titled Alone in the kitchen with an eggplant: confessions of cooking for one and dining alone. Being a bachelor and a person who might be classified a loner, eating solo is for me probably the norm.

Lately, I just haven't had the time to cook due to all the looming deadlines - I think that I may have cooked perhaps two or three meals in the past two weeks. By and large the rest of my meals have come from a few tv dinners and innumerable trips to Subway, Safeway (which has surprisingly good sandwiches), Opa! (greek fast food), Tim Hortons, and a few local restaurants.

One of the things that would speed up the cooking process and thus render me more likely to cook would be to move to a place with a proper stove (much faster to cook on than hotplates) and a dishwasher (to speed up the cleanup). Of course, At the same time, the cost differential that I'd be paying for the sort of places that I'd consider moving to is high enough that it's relatively easy to justify eating out fairly regularly. The other thing that prompts the occasional idea of moving is to find space for a (much) larger desk. As Scott mentioned my current desk is rather small. But, that said, I'm relatively satisfied with where I am now, and moving is always a nuisance.