Take me out to the ballgame.

Singing "Take me out to the ballgame" during the 7th inning stretch is one of my favorite parts of any baseball game. Thank you, Major League Baseball, for taking this special moment away from me as I watch the World Series. I mean, do we have to sing "God Bless America" at EVERY game????? Seriously, what does God Blessing America have to do with the country's favorite past time? As I wrote about regarding my baseball experience on the Fourth of July, you don't have to believe in God to be a citizen of this country, let alone, to be a baseball fan. So I wonder, why do we have to sing this at baseball games?

I want my peants and cracker jacks, damnit, and I want them now!

Whiz Wit

Tonight, my taste buds were finally satisfied. I finally sampled the foods at South Philly Cheesesteaks, just off of Beale St. http://southphillycheesesteaks.com/index.html

I had an authentic cheesesteak, whiz - wit - mushrooms.

Soooooooo delicious. I mean seriously delicious.

Did I mention I followed that up with TastyKakes because they sell them there are well!

God, I love this combination.

One of the better food orgasms in the last few weeks.

America Runs on Dunkin.

John Goodman tells us that "America Runs on Dunkin" is the latest slogan by my favorite donut delight dealer, Dunkin Donuts.

This slogan is misleading. You see, ALL of America does NOT run on Dunkin. Why? Because I am in America and depressingly, I am NOT running on Dunkin.

You see, Dunkin Donuts is not available here in the Memphis. The closest Dunkin Donuts is in Jackson, which is a good 80 miles away. The next closest one I know of is in Clarksville, which is a good 3 hours away. Occassionally, I visit these places or someone visits me and I get to devour my favorite donuts (blueberry cake), muffins (chocolate chip), hot chocolate or vanilla bean coolatta (depending on the time of year). These are moments in food consumption that bring me great pleasure and delight.

Dunkin Donuts was a staple food of mine through college. While there was no Dunkin Donuts in Oxford, OH, while I was in graduate school, there was one close enough that I could get my fill usually monthly. In Memphis, I often go months without my Dunkin Donuts. This is quite challenging for me.

On average, I crave Dunkin Donuts about 3 times a day.

Today is one of those days where I especially craved the Dunkin. It has become rather cold in Memphis for October. This morning, when I left my apartment, it was about 40 degrees. This is a great morning where a drive through of Dunkin Donuts for a disgusting-yet-delicious breakfast sandwich and some coffee would have suited me nicely.

Instead, I ate some cereal.

I just ventured out of the office on my break, and the weather is slightly rainy and dreary, a whopping 49 degrees. Again, another moment in which the Dunkin Donuts would have been delightful - a quick hot chocolate and a muffin perhaps to get me through the night of work.

Instead, I have a salad for dinner.

Tonight, it is a well known fact that I will crave the Dunkin. It will be colder when I leave and the hot chocolate/donut combo will be calling my name.

Sadly, I will go home and eat pretzels.

It is with sadness that I continue to live my life deprived of my weekly intake of Dunkin Donuts.

For those of you that have this great pleasure, I hope you realize how wonderful it is and how lucky you are. If you are one of those Americans who run on Dunkin, you are indeed privileged.

You've Got Mail.

"He sent you an email about voicemail? Weird."
-Actual comment.

Captain Cranky Pants

Last night, I went to bed fairly early, mostly because I was tired but mainly because I was sick of being cranky.

I left work cranky, not for any particular reason just the general annoyance with listening to people whine and bitch at me all day long.

I went home to watch tv, and Wednesday night tv sucks for me, so this made me more cranky.

I talked to one of my four friends in Memphis and he reminded me of how much my social and personal life suck so that made me even more cranky.

I figured if I went to bed, I could wake up today and be less cranky.

I fell into a nice sleep and slept well, until a strange dream woke me up around 5am. I had this dream where I walked to a rather average size room and the only people in it were men who met one of the following categories:
a. someone I dated
b. someone I was infatuated with and wanted to date but wouldn't give me the time of day
c. someone I have a current infatuation with but could never date because I'd lose my job

Talk about weird. I don't really know what the point of this gathering was. I was too freaked out I think by the sight of the many males who have repeatedly rejected me over the years that I forced myself awake so as to avoid any REM-drama.

Let's just say, I woke up today feeling cranky.

Another year to wait...

The Phillies were eliminated yesterday from post-season play, thanks to wins by the Dodgers and the Padres. I am slightly devastated, I won't lie. I really thought this would be the year the Phillies would break the 13 year drought and actually make the playoffs. But, sadly, they fell short and I'll have to wait another year to see if playoff hopes will become reality.

I guess I'll have to root for the Detroit Tigers, thanks to the fact that I dislike and/or strongly despise every other team who will make the playoffs.

Sadly, this isn't how I hoped October would start.