Bachelor Life
blogThe bachelor life doesn’t suit me; I much prefer the symbiotic, task-sharing, uxorious joys of coupledom. Perhaps I need a few days to get used to Laura’s absence, but so far it has been awful. I knew I was in trouble when I decided to have steamed broccoli, mushrooms, a fried egg, and tinned mackerel for dinner. It wasn’t dinner so much as a random selection of incompatible food.
Rather than share laughter over Come Dine With Me, as I would have done normally, I watched The Short Films of David Lynch, which are the cinematic equivalent of being in a Francis Bacon painting. My sleeping was also disturbed as I become wrapped in the duvet like a sweaty caterpillar in its chrysalid. Even time goes quicker when you haven’t got another person there to share it with (maybe because subjective time goes quicker than time bounced off someone else?).
As an experiment to occupy my mind, I decided to drink only water for a few days. The immediate effect of this was to give me a slight headache from caffeine withdrawal (I only usually drink a few mugs of green tea), but I now have a woozy sense of relaxation. Ironically, I had been extolling the virtues of a strong coffee to Will on Wednesday night, but after reading this article I am not so sure.