The other night I was really craving a good hamburger. Like, totally juicy, stuffed with pungent blue cheese and topped with caramelized onions, sautéed mushrooms, lettuce, tomato, spicy mustard, and ketchup. Not your standard picayune burger. (Side Note: I’ve been reading a lot of David Foster Wallace recently, and he uses the word picayune three times in one essay. Really, David?)

Since I’d been trying to meet up with a friend of mine for a while for dinner, and since I only had about half of what I needed to achieve my burger dreams and since those burger dreams demanded achievement, I suggested dinner at my place – halfsies on ingredients. Of course the beers were a bonus, and the cheese might have been a little pricey, but I think we did well for way less than we would have paid eating out. Right, Bryan, right? Those burgers were delicious. The kind of thick, heavily laden burgers that need to be squashed flat before being eaten. Bam. Burger magic.

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“I can write about whatever the hell I want,” I say as we stroll down Bushwick Avenue toward Danny’s Pizza for the slice I hope will cure waking up at 6:30 in the morning, a full day of work, and too many Peeps before a restless nap. Somehow I’d forgotten that a whole week had gone by and Sunday was here again, and I had nothing to write about. Again.

Is it the weather? Is it this lazy slide into Summer that makes me feel so apathetic? There’s nothing I’d like to do more than sit on the rooftop and listen to Gossip and eat sunshine. Because I’m doing that pregnant hungry thing again, where the elusive taste I’m craving can only be found by eating my way through everything I find in the fridge/pantry until I find that one thing I wanted to eat all along. Or is that like Pac Man?

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Ok. Stop whatever you’re doing right now. I know it’s probably really fun. Like sunbathing or riding a bike or spray painting a building. Stop that and go find a corner bodega that sells bread pudding. Eat, go back to whatever you were doing, and tell me that whatever you were doing before isn’t more fun now. Even if you were vandalizing something.

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