Your Unemployed Daughter

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Ahhh, no night-time freakouts from the neighbor this early am, so perhaps she happened upon my advice. Or she takes a break on the weekends.

But what do I do with my 3 am, given the possibility of silence and a good night’s sleep?

Oh, of course, I stay up, watch a gazillion episodes of my new dorky obsession, Greek (which I am going to have to watch again as I was somewhat drunk and don’t remember), and ate a huge bag of Tostitos with a Hint of Lime and nacho cheese dip. I could be a poster child for something … gross.

Does anyone else have the trouble of, when you know you have to do something the next day (for me, it’s a hardcore boxing class that I prefer to have been sober for the night before, else I fall on my face or break a hand or vomit on my face/hand), you do the exact opposite of what you should?

It’s like defying the gods or something. Like, when I have to catch an early flight the next morning, I insist on partying with karaoke sumo wrestlers until the wee hours. Or when I have a job interview the next day, I end up somewhere in South Jersey wearing a Ronald McDonald wig and being interrogated by cops.

So it makes complete and total sense that I chowed on my frat-party concoction and watched my ABC Family show until 3 am and when I forced myself out of bed this morning felt fairly … unpleasant. But I downed some coffee and got to the gym in time for my class, only to find that my brand new pink boxing gloves would not be getting the workout they so deserved because my instructor has a sprained or otherwise compromised ankle. Oh dear.

And yet I felt a bit of relief, because I really didn’t know how I was going to make it through that one.

So, as they say, in job-hunting and Tostitos-eating, things have a way of working out for the best. And I have now officially learned my lesson about nacho cheese dip. Ew.

PS: This fellow was quite entrepreneurial, something we at YourUnemployedDaughter look kindly on, and earned rewards for his unbiased review of Tostitos with a Hint of Lime. I agree with him wholeheartedly that the chips are a bit big and break easily—I experienced several incidents of complete chip submersion in my nacho cheese dip once I managed to work the overlarge chips into the jar. But I disagree that the bag will last you a long time. Still, for late-night post-bar snacking, it does the trick.