one man’s journey
October 1st, 2008, 5:21 ami went to an extra hockey practice with my uncle’s team tonight. i’m still very bad, but i still had fun. i drove there because don had to eat his dinner – a $3 chicken dinner from this new place at bloor & lansdowne. after practice we got back in the car and it totally smelled like roast chicken and garlic sauce. this made me HUNGRY, so i asked him to drop me off at bloor/lansdowne instead of my house so i could get myself a chicken dinner (second dinner). unfortunately, they close at midnight on weekdays, and i got there at about five after.
i walked home and chilled for a bit until i felt REALLY hungry, around 12:45. i look around and i have no butter (can’t make pasta), no bacon (can’t make breakfast-for-dinner), and no meat. i don’t even feel like boring america food, i want sushi or falafel or something. i look around online for a bit and don’t see anything promising, so i have a quick shower and bike down to college street to see if anything other than bars are open at 1:30am. i get all the way to yonge st. with no luck. i head down to queen and start going back west, also no luck. i saw a place around queen & john that said “whatever falafels OPEN!” but they were locked up, i guess they left the sign out by accident. by the time i get to spadina it’s started to rain, but i get a tip via text message that rabbas (24h convenience/mini-grocery store) sells falafel sandwiches. i head back up to the charles st. rabbas and lock up my bike. i ask for a falafel sandwich….they stop making them earlier in the night, i couldn’t really understand the guy except that the deli closes earlier.
so, i head home. i think about buying falafel mix at dominion, but i would want to buy pitas and vegetables too and i didn’t bring a backpack or bag. i decide to stop at “lucky 21″ since it’s only 2:45 at this point, and just buy a big thing of ice cream. i lock up again and try to go in…but they closed early. ugh! i give up and go to the bloor/dufferin tim horton’s and get a large coffee and 3 donuts. i ride all the way to my house with no hands holding the defeatist late-night meal. i should try unicycling. i totally copped out (could have gone back out to dominion and made homemade falafel), but it was a good ten mile ride with the roads to myself. i like the name i gave that custom map.
i drink my coffee at 3:15 in the morning, do 185 pushups (why not? caffeine helps workouts) and here i am 2 hours later wide awake. long story short, i try 10 times to get post-2am impulse food, get denied because it’s a tuesday night, this post sucks

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