11 36 pm pdt   [ ingredients ]

Ingredients for 14 October 2000:

• early wake-up for no good reason
• 2 servings of Cheerios and soy milk
• 2 sets of comfortable clothes
• several phone calls to family members to coordinate plans
• several pairs of hideously ugly shoes
• 2 pair of silver sneakers
• 1 ancient man who drives very slowly
• 4 sandwiches from Subway
• 1 screening of Best In Show
• 1 Japanese restaurant on Ventura Boulevard
• 1 Groaning Mona concert
• 1 taped copy of the season premiere of The West Wing
• 1 copy of Endymion by Dan Simmons with bookmark
• 1 good looking boyfriend willing to talk about the future

Mumble about early wake-up for no good reason. Consume 2 servings of Cheerios and soy milk. Slip into comfortable clothes along with 1 good looking boyfriend willing to talk about the future. Let boyfriend make several phone calls to family members to coordinate plans. Go shoe shopping with aforementioned boyfriend and run around the store laughing so hard it hurts as you try to locate the most hideously ugly pair of shoes in the store. Find 1 pair of silver sneakers which you just have to have despite boyfriend's feeling that they are quite unattractive. Wear said pair of sneakers around the store for a half hour before you decide that it isn't your feet that are different sizes. Discover that one shoe is a size six (too small) and one is a size seven (perfect). Scour the store looking for another pair of silver sneakers. Discover that all sivler sneakers in the store are size six or five. Give up, but then make one last round and discover the other mismatched pair of silver sneakers. Reunite the size seven sneakers with each other and wear them up to the cash register.

Head to the valley, and stop at Subway to procure 4 sandwiches. Wait twenty minutes in the parking lot for 1 ancient man to pull out of his space. Have boyfriend mishear "Do you might waiting a minute?" as "Do you mind waiting for peanut?" Insists on calling the ancient man Peanut. Make many Peanut related jokes. Vow to call all future bad drivers Peanut. Get sandwiches.