Timothy Kane
Director, Office of Community Service
OCS staff are often amused at my odd ability to relate almost anything and everything that happens at OCS and GW to a Seinfeld episode...and my participation in the Food Stamp Challenge (FSC) is no exception. Remember the episode when Jerry starts off with a monologue about moving and about how we all suddenly become obsessed with finding boxes during a move? Got to find boxes...any boxes here?...I know you have boxes...boxes, boxes, boxes! Well, suddenly, I feel the same way about free food and the FSC. Got to find free food...any free food at MSSC?...I know SASS has some free food...free food, free food, free food! This strange obsession also occurs in an even stranger backdrop...that is, my having ample "food reserves" (i.e. body fat) to last for weeks! What is it about how our personal insecurities interface with our environment to cause such "interesting" manifestations? Do I really think that I will starve to death during the FSC? Am I that afraid of feeling hungry? Will my concentration at work or at home be so disrupted if I don't feed myself as I normally do? Hmmmm...let's wait and see! To be continued...
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I received the request to join this challenge and thought to myself - HAH! My pantry is always full of goodies so the limited funds are not going to impact my "eating ability". And then I thought -- You are cheating! Yourself and all of the people who are really facing this challenge every day. I have a completely different idea now of what we will be doing for dinners -- lots of pasta. Good thing I like pasta!
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