Word: eating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jealous. I'm really, really, almost angrily jealous. Because it's not like I have particularly tortured eating habits, compared to most girls I know. I've gone through that a bit, in and around high school, and I'm endlessly happy and grateful to have left it behind. But looking back, I resent the amount of mental and emotional energy I lost to those thoughts--to planning what I was going to eat for dinner, and berating myself for what I'd eaten at the party last night, and forcing myself through ridiculous exercise routines and talking about dieting...
Sometimes we satisfy ourselves with the half-truth that boys just need to eat more; sometimes we make the absurd assumption that girls just like salad more; mostly we just don't think about it, because we've been watching it happen like this for years. And I could add disclaimers about how boys have eating concerns too, which is certainly and sadly true, or about how I don't speak for all girls or about how chicken fingers every night is not the healthiest of diets either. But with all that said, the situation still stands, and I almost...
...Then I went back on medication. I don't really like it. I used to be able to joke and laugh, but it slows down my reaction to things. And it killed my appetite, so I don't usually eat at lunch. I go off somewhere by myself rather than sitting at lunch not eating and looking strange...
...prank organizers, coordinated the flyers so that each first-year dormitory thought it was one of the few dorms assigned to eat at Adams, while the rest were thought to be assigned to eat at other Houses...
...result, according to some first-years, was a good deal of confusion at Adams and a large number of people forced to trek back to Annenberg or eat at other River Houses...