Food is used for much more than sustenance and nutritional value. It is the center of social gatherings, comfort, creativity, and not to mention the basis of any first date -- I mean who doesn't take a girl out to dinner? But I have a terrible habit -- I eat when I'm bored. When I have nothing else to do, all I think about is food and what salty delicious junk I could be consuming. Why can't I get bored and instead have the urge to go jogging, or clean my house, or work on that twenty page capstone I keep determinedly ignoring? The worst was when I worked at Schroeder's in Calhoun, which at certain times of the day got absolutely no business at all. With nothing to do and an entire kitchen full of ingredients, I found myself constantly craving nachos, cheesecake calzones, or my personal favorite, pesto pizza with jalapenos. The head managers were never there (like I said, there was nothing to do), so those in charge indulged in food as much as I did. Why sit around and do nothing when we could create a gigantic pile of nachos with every possibly topping and entirely too much cheese? I will say, perhaps partially for the sake of self-defense, that my habit has contributed to my creativity in the kitchen. Some of my best dishes have come from me being so bored that I walk into my kitchen and just start throwing things together until something delicious happens. However, most other times my habit causes me to start grabbing ready-made things out of the cabinet and stuffing my face until I find something productive to do.
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