Some days are like that

[cjsmith]

Happy Hour in the office today is nachos and beer. In terms of progress, my day so far has pretty much been like yesterday, and things aren't exactly speeding up while I listen to everybody else party. Did I mention that the music is loud?

I realize I have really turned into a whiner lately. I do not like being a whiner. There must be things I can do to improve this situation. So far, I can think of three dramatic changes I might be able to make, any one of which would help in the short term:
1) Get off this diet
2) Get off this project
3) Find a job at a less food-oriented company, or at least one that isn't militantly carbohydrate-only

Maybe other things would help too. It is now my job to think of them.

But damn, it sure would be nice to be like everybody else once in a while. I took years to accept the fact that I would never again be fully able-bodied. I thought I was done with this "suck it up, everyone around you can enjoy things you will never enjoy again, get used to it and learn to shut up" kind of mental adjustment crap. Now I have the relentless tyranny of food in addition to being a gimp.

Some days just suck.

And now I need to think of ways I could make life suck less.

Comments

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

Grill some steak or bring in roaster chickens and hold your own party... Create a taco bar and you just fill up your plate with the meat, cheese, beans, and some greens... while everyone else takes the tortillas, too.

Some businesses have parking lot BBQs. Maybe this is something you can suggest so you at least have an option? Find out who coordinates these things and put a bug in their ear.

One thing I'd do is just being in my own food and party. A dark chocolate molé sauce sounds good right about now...

Anyway, I don't know where you can work where there aren't coffee, donuts, and high-carb snack foods everywhere. But I swear you can't be the only person who has dietary issues, and some people on the South Beach Diet, people who are diabetic, people who are on meds where they can't drink alcohol (incl antibiotics), would be GRATEFUL if you offered them an alternative, too.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yes, a taco bar party or a grill party would be good; I could pick and choose the stuff that works for me. We haven't had one of those in a while. I should volunteer to take on one of the happy hours and give everybody celery sticks with unsweetened peanut butter on them. ;-) ;-)

You're right that just about any workplace has massively-glycemic snacks all over it. And many social situations have alcohol as a fundamental presumption. Like it or lump it, this is one of those things where I'm going to have to learn ways to adapt.