Popularity: 1%

Flukey Fridays…

Kitty SammichThat’s right… Today is the beginning of Flukey Fridays here at !

[floo-kee] adj.

1. Resulting from or depending on mere chance.
2. Constantly shifting; uncertain: a fluky wind.
3. subject to accident or chance or change; “a chancy appeal at best”; “getting that job was definitely fluky”; “a fluky wind”; “an iffy proposition”

Where I get to talk about ANYTHING I want… After all… It is my blog, right?

Right.

So I’m sitting here on my bed trying to work on my rewrite but I’m HUNGRY. Normally, I wouldn’t give in to the hunger pangs but I just realized that I forgot to eat today and today is now Friday.

I didn’t eat Thursday.

Well for cryin’ out loud… It’s too late to cook anything decent (yes, I cook) and I sure as hell don’t feel like eating fast food — that’s always a last resort and even then, I rarely resort to it.

I love . It’s brand new and let me tell ya… IT KEEPS THINGS REALLY COLD. It’s even got those “crisper” drawers for fruit and vegetables and what do you know… They actually work!

I love the sound it makes when I slowly pull it open… It makes this perfect “phlop” sound that means I can drink milk an entire week after it expires.

A quick perusal…

Tortillas. Naaah. I love plain flour tortillas but I need something substantial.

Eggs. . Good stuff. I normally over-easy them onto a nice fresh with everything on it. Mmmm.

Too much work.

Leftovers? There isn’t any.

One of those little plastic containers of Del Monte sugar free chocolate pudding but the peel-off top is peeled back already. Oh yeah, I opened that a few days ago and only had a spoonful. The spoon is still in it so BOOYAH! I can slurp some pudding while I find the main course…

Hmmm. Hey, there’s lettuce and tomatoes… Cool. Slurp. Purple onion. Slurp. Cucumbers. Slurp, slurp. The alfalfa sprouts are just about ready to turn but hey… I like to live dangerously.

I SCRAPE the insides of the pudding container until I can see my hand through it…

Slurp and burp.

Excuse me.

I don’t even have to look because I know the next move so well… I toss both container and spoon into the air behind me and sure enough, they clang and bounce around inside the stainless steel sink.

Two points.

Fuck it. I’ll take three points today… It’s Flukey Friday!

Ahhh. There it is… The salami. Not just any salami mind you… This is the “good stuff.” .

Hey, don’t knock it if you haven’t tried it. LOL. No, I don’t have a slicer but that’s okay because I know how to slice it nice and thin with my favorite knife… Ahhh.

Bread. Holy shit! Where’s the bread? Whew! There it is… Sourdough. My favorite. Mmmm. Smells good… Delightful actually.

A quick scraping of the cutting board and it’s time to go to work. Gotta get the mustard. I’m old school… .

I don’t spread it — I just squeeze the hell out of that gigantic plastic container and glob it all over both slices of bread after I slice it of course.

This sourdough is the hard, crusty kind… Seriously, you could drop-check this stuff off a ten story building and it wouldn’t hurt it a bit.

Glob glob. Glob glob.

Lettuce. Romaine. I like to clean it off really good first. Nothing nastier than dirty-tasting lettuce.

Ahhh.

The purple onion is nice and sweet. I can eat these things like apples but I’ll slice a few pieces off for now… Stack it on the lettuce.

Tomato. I like Roma tomatoes. One will do it. Thin slices… They cover the onion nicely.

Cucumbers. It’s still really cold so I’ll wash it with warm water and some to get the wax off… I don’t peel them — I just slice and flop them on top of the tomato.

Sprouts. Pull the nasty ones out… Flush them with some nice cool filtered water… Cool, still nice and bouncy.

Time for the buffalo salami. I gotta eat a piece all by itself first… Mmmm. Gotta buy some more of this stuff! Eat your heart out you vegetarians (no, I have nothing against you but you simply do not know what you’re missing).

Four, five, six… What the heck… Seven, eight. Eight slices. Nice.

Hey, don’t judge me… I’m gonna be up all night! I need sustenance!

Flipping the other slice of sourdough on top of the heap… Smash it down. Cool.

Hmmm. or ? Hmmm. Hey! There’s a bottle of Summer Fest in there! How’d that happen?

Snatched!

My three cats love me all the way back to my bedroom… They like buffalo salami too!

At home, I never use the wireless mouse… That’s for the coffee shop. My middle finger slides across the touchpad steadied by my thumb… Final Draft? There it is.

Click.

Two hands around this monster… I ease it toward me… I already know how it’s going to taste…

I bite. I have to tear the last bit of bread from its source.

I chew.

I taste.

Outstanding!

I wash it down with a swig of from Sierra Nevada.

Ahhh.

There’s nothing like a rewrite…

What’s YOUR favorite screenwriting snack?

Unk

Tags:




Thursday: 14 September 2006|2318|Under Uncategorized

Print This Post Print This Post
 

Comments

10 Responses to “Flukey Fridays…”

  1. wcdixon on Friday: 15 September 2006|0919

    Kooky post, with LINKS to boot, but I’m all of a sudden feeling an urge for some… natcho’s with melted cheese

  2. Unknown Screenwriter on Friday: 15 September 2006|1229

    Yeah, I just woke up myself… What a night — er, ah — morning.

    Another sammich — another beer.

    Ahhh.

    Unk

  3. taZ on Friday: 15 September 2006|1254

    I know that I probably would have that big buffalo-sandwich of yours as a snack if I ever tasted one, but until then… two glasses of vodka will make that perfect rewrite.
    ..
    ..
    What? It’s cold here in Sweden!

  4. Unknown Screenwriter on Friday: 15 September 2006|1354

    So…

    Vodka is your favorite screenwriting snack?

    Splash one back for me… LOL.

    Unk

  5. taZ on Friday: 15 September 2006|1805

    Oh, man!

    You made it a whole post without lol, and the irony is… I’m the reason you said it!!

    Vodka is the best snack… at least you think it’s a snack after the first glass. LOL.

  6. Poke on Monday: 18 September 2006|0915

    I’m still tweaking my perfect snack. I used to love a big glass of milk, but that’s no longer working for me. I’ve tried different things — nuts, Sun Chips, these cool little healthy crackers my wife buys — but nothing has given me that good feeling I want.

    I recently moved into a new house where there can be no computer room — so my workspace is kinda out in the open. It’s been throwing me off — I’m used to being able to fall into my own little world, and I can’t do that now. I’m trying a lot of new stuff — listening to nature sounds at full blast in my headphones, doing a sort of deep breathing excercise Unk suggested, etc. I’m even thinking of making blinders for myself — Did I mention I’m a horse?

    Gonna try the sandwich thing tonight I think. My mouth is watering after reading this post.

    Poke

  7. Dante Kleinberg on Monday: 18 September 2006|1221

    Congratulations! Weirdest post ever. ;-)

    I don’t snack because I only get two or three appetites a day so I save them for meals. But I work early in the morning before my shift at the office starts, and when I’m done working I usually have a chocolate chip muffin from Vons for breakfast. I’ve tested out lots of muffins from various places and the Vons brand is THE BEST by far.

  8. MaryAn Batchellor on Monday: 18 September 2006|1221

    A carrot and ranch dressing with a side bottle of tequila. Shot glasses are for sissies.

  9. Unknown Screenwriter on Monday: 18 September 2006|1843

    I used to do the Tequila thing…

    Then one day I woke up in a complete stranger’s house.

    She seemed to know me but I just drew a blank.

    Get your head out of the gutter… I woke up with all my clothes on. LOL.

    I did have to change my phone number though.

    Unk

  10. Spatula on Tuesday: 19 September 2006|0916

    MMM… this post makes me hungry. My favorite writing snack is a Blueberry bagel with cream cheese plus a large double-double coffee from Tim Hortons. Food of the gods.
    Next time, baste your sourdough with cooking oil and pan fry it until the cheese gets all goo-billy. Mmmm.
    -Spatula

Leave a Reply