so i may have admitted to friends that i bring the same lunch to work EVERYDAY. it’s been some form of turkey and cheese for years….YEARS! it’s not that i don’t like other sandwiches, but turkey and cheese is easy to make. why would i want to have a difficult lunch to fix the night before work? the other day i went to sam’s and saw their rotisserie chickens. my friend Andy used to rave about them all the time, about how great they were, blah blah blah. today though, i thought i could use the rotisserie chicken for sandwiches. BRILLIANT! on the way home, i stopped off at walmart to pick up some green tea (also a change to the work lunch the past couple of weeks, thanks to an episode of Good Eats) and picked up a rotisserie chicken. i got home and went for a run, then watched HIMYM, and watched basketball (what up Hawks!). i started carving up the chicken to use for a sandwich, and ended up with a week’s worth of meat. not a bad deal to actually have real chicken for $5 when the processed deli meat i usually buy is about $3.50. i piled some chicken on a couple of slices of whole wheat bread, using creole mustard, swiss cheese, and i even threw on a couple of pickle spear slices for good measure. incidentally, an episode of Good Eats from a couple of months ago on sandwiches stressed about using better ingredients, which caused me to search (unsuccessfully) for weeks to find a loaf of bread that was not already sliced. i thought of the episode tonight as i was making the new and higher class sandwich. i obviously haven’t tasted the sandwich yet, but i can report back on the sandwich goodness tomorrow.

tonight my governor, bobby jindal, was on the Tonight Show. i had heard about him being on while driving into work this morning and thought “what a strange guest appearance.” with all the lunch stuff going on, i was up to watch it. he wasn’t bad, he talked about his childhood and parents, and then some about what he’s accomplished so far while in office (political reform….word). i liked what he said about this period after the 2005 storms being a chance for the state to start over, and how it’s like a change has come over people, and we want to make things better than before. while it wasn’t anything i haven’t already been feeling, i found it inspiring nonetheless.