Apologies for the second email! The earlier email didn’t include the last paragraph of Alex’s writing. This version has the entire text of his.
Saturday’s Playlist:
Saturday:
I jolted awake far too early today, on account of a nightmare.
One coffee later and I head into town to run some errands. On my return I make avocado toast again with the last avocado and the rest of my bread. I have another coffee and attempt to work on some music, fighting a sense of restlessness.
Getting nowhere, I make one of several teas, run more household errands, and try to entertain myself with tv shows and cooking videos on youtube. Nothing sits, and soon I’m heading to the shop to find something for lunch, not hungry, just bored. I buy eggs, udon noodles and soy sauce. I attempt to make udon with raw egg but I use too much soy sauce and scramble the eggs in my impatience. Cooking without a plan or purpose doesn’t always go well for me, and the eggs end up half scrambled. A failure this time, and it frustrates me, so I make more tea and snack on some biscuits until a real hunger approaches in the early evening.
Messing up a dish usually suppresses my desire to cook elaborately, so ready-made mezzelune pasta from the shop it is. Even so, I make a quick brown butter and garlic sauce to toss them in, and eat it with a salad of rocket, tomato and mozzarella, with toasted bread and pesto to mop up the salad dressing. Afterwards I sit and finish off a jar of olives and a few spoonfuls of yogurt (in sequence, not tandem).
Alex's pronouns are he/him.
Alex is 23 years old who is currently based in Leeds. He plays keys in the bands Gladboy and Bug Teeth and he works in a sushi restaurant as a day job. He has been fascinated with food since he was young and next to music it's his brightest passion!