evolution

this is a comprehensive list of what i ate yesterday.

• three eggo waffles, toasted, with butter and syrup
• two slices of cheese with eight crackers
• three-cheese tortellini with my brash re-interpretation [see break below] of my mother’s marinara sauce
• one golden delicious apple
• one slice of cheese
• one bowl of “fruit and fibre” cereal with dates, walnuts, and raisins, dry

BREAK: when i was an architecture major at k-state, we had an assignment in first-year studio where we had to use a famous painting of our choice as the theme for a large park area. i chose a salvador dali painting whose name i do not recall. it’s the one whose main feature looks like a melting head propped up by a stick (commenters - help me out with the name). i designed a park monument based on the head feature, and the park furniture was based on the other objects in the painting. i finished my work after two consecutive all-nighters of touching up to make it perfect. a couple of weeks later i received my grade. it was a C - with the following comment: “a brash re-interpretation of this work by dali. i liked it!!” my professor also liked to sneak away from studio while we were working and hit the bottle of cognac in his office several times during the class, and you can bet the attractive female members of the class received more personal counseling than us guys did.