Chocolate ice cream is a nice thing to pick up at the store every once in a while. When you’re working from home and eating from home and living from home you kind of start to go crazy. You’re flipping through all your cupboards looking for sugar and you realize: actually I don’t have sugar. Better go to the store! Slap on your flip flops and walk half a block to the store. Pull out your phone and reread for the fourth time the draft of that email you’re never going to send. Walk past your car to make sure it’s okay. It’s not okay. There’s a parking ticket on the windshield. Well that sucks. That sucks huge. That sucks worse than the last time you got a parking ticket. The parking enforcer says the tow truck is on the way so you better move your car now. This will be a fun 300 minutes because it’s a Friday night and finding a parking spot in Koreatown at this time of night will be about as fun as unrequited love.

So you find a parking spot twenty blocks from home but that’s okay because you could use a little fresh air. A little walk. Avoid the shattered glass on the sidewalk if you still want to make it up into the mountains for camping tomorrow morning. Have to pick up some sugar, more tupperware, some burgers. There’s a bigger store closer now that you had to park over near Mars so head to that one. Oh yeah get a mango too. Don’t forget to indulge in a couple fantasies about running into people you know and playing a scenario out in real-time. Get your food and pay and lug it home.

It’s pretty late but it’s time to cook up some hamburgers. You’re getting better at cooking and that means you’re proud of cooking and that means you eat more. Now that it’s 11pm and Mazzy Star is droning their dulcet whine in the background, it’s time for a cold bowl of chocolate ice cream.