postgraduationhaze

I have developed a habit of crafting these almost maniacally fantastical vignettes about what my life would be like if I could just stop working. It isn't that I don't necessarily enjoy my job, because I do, and there are certainly perks and a solid salary, but this is how it goes:

Every day, around the same time, I wake up, argue internally about what I can wear to work that won't get me fired (I hate wearing business clothes, and i hate business casual even more), yell at either Good Morning America or Morning Edition, depending on what media I need that day, and then walk or take the bus to work. Upon arrival, I am happy - in a great mood - but within about 30 minutes that completely sours. Completely, without room for a margin of enjoyment. I don't know what causes this. I wake up thinking that going to work will be great and yet I seem to be unable to remain in the office for even an hour without wanting to climb the walls.

Its not the job itself - because its fairly interesting - but its more the way I feel as a 24 year old dutifully going to work every day and feeling more and more like a cog in a machine. I'm 24 for chrissakes, I really don't want to be doing this yet, or ever...Yet, after this summer I start law school which means like zero free time and then just the looming prospect of finding a better job in the same field I work in now. What else would I do, you wonder? I have no idea. After the days of sleeping in, lazing about, shopping, reading eight newspapers a day wears off...well I don't know what I would mentally occupy myself with.

Two weeks from today and I leave for London. I am so, so excited.

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I love learning this type of crap.
From Ochef.com

What are Swedish Fish?

What are Swedish Fish? I have a recipe calling for Swedish fish and have no idea what they are. Thank you for answering such a stupid question.

We've never gotten a stupid question, and you are not going to spoil our track record. But if you want to talk about stupid, look at our thought process as we tried to track down Swedish fish....

Our first thoughts went to herring, a Scandinavian staple, or turbot, the fish of choice in Sweden's fishing capital, Gothenburg. Another possibility, we thought, is sprat, a herring relative, which is sometimes called the Swedish anchovy.

We contacted the Swedish Trade Council, and they couldn't come up with a single type of Swedish fish that might suit your unspecific recipe. Indeed, their list was longer than ours, and included herring (in a jar or fresh), anchovies, eel, salmon, cod, white fish, perch, or pike.

When we finally came to our senses, we realized that your recipe must be for a dessert, and you are looking for the "Swedish Fish" candy that is available in stores and movie theaters throughout the United States. Anneli M. Sumen of the trade group, says Swedish Fish are made by a Swedish company, MalacoLeaf, and are similar to gummi bears in texture and taste. They are larger, shaped like fish, and red. Interestingly, they are only really popular in the US, and Malaco actually manufactures them in Canada for the US market (seems to us, they may have lost a bit of their Swedish heritage.)

So we'd say there's a 99% chance that you're supposed to garnish some dessert with Swedish Fish candies and perhaps a 1% chance that you should be tracking down some herring or turbot.

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