So!

I came back to the apartment around 11:00, intent on cooking lunch. I pulled frozen broccoli and frozen winter squash out of the freezer and proceeded to prepare them. The broccoli stove eye started smoking at an alarming rate. I assumed that whatever was burning would burn itself off in a relatively short amount of time. Wrong. The smoke detector was screaming as my food continued to simmer on the stove. Reluctantly, I shut off both stove eyes (just in case) and began to fan the alarm. I pulled the smoke detector battery out. It didn't stop. I pulled the detector off of the ceiling. It didn't stop. WHY DOESN'T IT STOP!!?? Thankfully, it stopped just in time for the Fed-Ex man to show up at my door. He proceeded to laugh at me, and I resisted the urge to tell him that I wasn't actually burning anything. "It's not my fault, I swear! I'm not a dunce in the kitchen!" The poor broccoli now tastes like the burning eye it was cooking on. An entire box of frozen broccoli has been rendered inedible. The squash would have been fine, but I didn't notice that it was organic, which means that it tastes like crap. Therefore, lunch consisted of imitation crab meat and a dinner roll. Lovely. I suppose I can also make good use of a leftover brownie. So much for attempts at a healthy lunch. Vegetables, indeed...