"It's Friday! It's Friday!" My roommates and I cheer as the clock hand turns from 11:59 p.m. Thursday to midnight Friday. For us, Friday indicates more than the fact that the weekend is imminent. It means that our weekly holiday, Fat Friday, is in full swing.
During the other six days of the week, we diligently eat a well-balanced, healthy diet. Last year, as residents of the Hereford area, we succumbed far too often to the all-you-can-eat buffet at Runk Hall Dining Room. Even though Runk touts its healthy salad bar, we often had a side of salad and a full course of fatty foods such as sliders and fries. To procrastinate the hours of homework that awaited us a few steps away, we'd sit in the dining hall and talk. And it was only rational that if we were going to stay and talk, we might as well have a bowl of chocolate ice cream and Cocoa Puffs to occupy ourselves with. And so when we got our big-girl apartment in Lambeth, a convenient two-minute drive away from Harris Teeter and Kroger, we made a promise to give up our first-year eating habits and concentrate on eating healthily.
Our first all-apartment trip to the grocery store seemed to support our healthy goals. We stocked our shopping carts full of vegetables, fruits, whole grains and the staple to every college kid's diet - a wide variety of Lean Cuisines. Bypassing the bakery, frozen pastries and buckets of ice cream, we were excited to begin a diet that any nutritionist would call exemplary. In Pavilion XI, our main spot to pick up lunch, we promised to stick to the sandwich line and fight off those Chick-Fil-A cravings. And because we had cars on Grounds, there was no excuse not to hit the gym.
As the first week of classes, and subsequently the first week of our new promise to a healthier lifestyle, came to a close, we wanted to celebrate. One of my roommates confessed she had bought break-and-bake chocolate chip cookies and was in a baking mood. Instead of reprimanding her - because everyone needs some cookies in their lives
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