What Might Have Been: The Lunch Blog

Even though I was not a fan of waking up early, commuting, or dressing in business-casual attire, I have to say, I'm kind of going to miss PSI. At first I thought that being the Southern Africa intern would mean that I'd adjust to waking up early (never happened), that I'd be impeccably dressed every week (didn't exactly happen), and that I'd eat really interesting lunches at different downtown locations every week. I had planned on keeping a running tab of my lunch adventures on this blog, with mini-reviews and pictures of the interesting food I'd eaten. Clearly, this never really happened. Here's why: (Mostly the why is just because I never took pictures/ate at interesting places/ate lunch at all.)

On my first day, my site supervisor took me out to lunch at Corner Table and I ate spaghetti carbonara. It was okay. There are no pictures.

My second week at PSI I went to Greek Deli for lunch. This place was literally next door to PSI and was totally famous in a secret, downtown, kind of way. There are a lot of things I could say about this place. Mostly, the food made me feel like I had to take a nap.

My third week at PSI I went to a brown bag lunch presentation on malaria in southern Sudan. Seeing as I hadn't packed a brown bag lunch, I didn't eat one. I drank a lot of V8 that day. Drinks from the vending machines were free, which was awesome.

My fourth week at PSI I grabbed a grilled cheese sandwich from Cosi for lunch. No one wants to see a picture of that.

My fifth week at PSI was the day after election day. I went to a brown bag lunch presentation on point of use water programs in Ethiopia. Everyone was too elated to care that after that a friend came and met me at the office to go to Greek Deli.

During my last two weeks at PSI I didn't leave my desk to eat lunch. So, the fun internship lunch blog never happened. Oh well.