I was sitting at my desk, checking my email at cerca 6:45 am. I was drinking my coffee out of a blue GWU mug, all natural, the way I like it...Costa Rican blend, fresh out of my Mr. Coffee, with Splenda, chocolate syrup, and pumpkin spice Coffee Mate. I like to refer to it as the 'Dentist's Delight'. Whatever. I'm still convinced that the whole wisdom tooth debacle is just a big conspiracy anyway. Well, at least I was drinking my liquid crack out of a straw, so it makes everything ok.
I munched on my cereal. Naturally, I once again blended 3 different types of cereal. Trader Joe's low fat almond granola (for the outdoorsman in me), All-Bran Bran Buds (for the med student in me), and Weetabix (for the grandpa in me). All topped off with a nanner and organic vanilla soymilk. Perfect. So I thought.
So, as I ate, I was distracted by Gmail. A new email from my roommate, who is sitting roughly 5 feet away from me, though separated by plaster and an Anatomy poster (for the dork in me). He's sorry for being grumpy yesterday. Dude, it's ok. We're in med school; you can pull a Rampage World Tour on Foggy Bottom, and I would totally understand...no need for apologies. So, yeah, my cereal. After eating for about 5 minutes, I take another large chomp. I expected to receive a bite of goodness, but instead I got funky monkey. I look in my bowl, and see something unusual: there's an ominous white clump roughly 3cm in diameter stuck at the soymilk/air level. It strangely resembled bird shit. Naturally, I look up. No birds. Phew. I look to the right. No holes in my window. Phew. I look to the left. Clifford, my betta fish, is still pleasantly swimming in his bowl. I'm truly baffled. I've been in school my whole life, but nothing in my past education prepared me for this moment. I poke 'the blob' a few times. It didn't move. Phew. I'm still baffled. Should I call The Ghostbusters? Nah, instead I poured my feast down the drain, and made a birdshitless English Muffin with raspberry jelly and natural peanut butter. Still baffled. Weird.
