Cooking something is becoming my stress relief of choice lately. Everything starts sucking; I pull ingredients out of the cabinet, make something to eat, and I feel better. I know it's not the eating part that makes the difference, because going to a restaurant or snacking on something deosn't help. Last time I made cookies, there were (and still are) too many to eat, so they went to work with me to be eaten.
I suppose a large part of the reason is the void left by not doing bench chemistry in a real lab, and this is my way of making up for it. Cooking is certainly more fulfilling than my job is. I miss lab.
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:-) You have come in a full circle you know right? There was a point in the past few years (primarily at Rose) when you couldn't wait to get out of lab. Silly boy!
Posted by Sara | February 23, 2006 8:28 AM
Posted on February 23, 2006 08:28
hey! wow...can i come over for dinner sometime? :P
Posted by Jen Porter | February 23, 2006 2:26 PM
Posted on February 23, 2006 14:26
I found cooking to be a hugely therapeutic thing during my first job (less so more recently, when I was often too tired to 'cook' anything more complicated than a frozen pizza, or wasn't living alone, so wasn't cooking for myself much).
I think it was because, no matter how stressful or frustratingly unproductive the day, cooking dinner was a task that could be brought to a successful conclusion in the course of an evening. Even if I was unable to successfully do anything at all at work that day, I could always go back to the apartment and cook something, and then I'd have done *something* right. Usually.
Posted by Pederson | February 28, 2006 1:16 AM
Posted on February 28, 2006 01:16