Hey, is anyone going to be available for lunch/brunch/drinks around 1:30 next Saturday in Oakland?

Normally I would, but already I have a 10:00 hair appointment in Palo Alto that day.

I didn't do much of the cleaning I promised myself I would do today, but I got the kitchen clean. I also just pruned the heck out of my Japanese maple. I have no idea if I did it right, but the tree looks happier now, so I am counting it as a win.

I didn't hear back from two of the places I sent applications/emails (need to follow up on them), but I did from a third, so now I am filling out an application for Rupert [link]

Put the deck furniture out. Look at the sheen on it! [link] We'll see how 2 coats of oil holds up for the season. It's smooth as silk. So awesome.

My parents almost always end up running late to meals (unless I'm the one driving them to them), but I know to be aiming for food 45 minutes or so after the stated time. And for some reason, luck of the draw has seen me with not much of an appetite the last few times we've gotten together for dinner. (Which was a crying shame on Easter dinner when my mom's ultra-nummy baked ham was the main course - I should have skipped breakfast that day!)

OK, so I don't usually end up eating my lunch until 12:10 or 12:15, but I am definitely up from my desk at the stroke of noon.

The furniture looks great, sarameg! I have some adirondack chairs I thought about painting this weekend (plastic, but they're comfy and I wanted them to be another color). Then the yearly pollen fest happened, so painting won't for a week or three. So I was essentially taskless today. Woe.

I'm more a "12:30 or 1" and "7 or 7:30" lunch/dinner gal. But I"m also not a morning person, so it's not like my roommate who eats breakfast at 6AM.

I'm a breakfast by 8, Lunch at 11:50, Dinner by 5:00 kind of person. But I also get my kids into bed by 7:30.

Holy hell, the twins were on a bender today. It was not a good day to take small people on the yarn crawl with me.

Ideally, I would eat breakfast at 6am and have a snack at 10 and lunch around 1 or 2 and dinner about 6pm. That rarely actually happens.

My issue is that I often don't have lunch (my lunch break is 35 minutes -- by the time I get students out and to be back in my room it's closer to 20 minutes) so at 3:00 I am famished.

Oh, that is no good.

I can take my lunch whenever I like, I am just indecisive about it. Also torn between wanting to eat at the same time every day and shifting everything earlier on the days I start working earlier.