posted 2005/06/15 at 04:04
Hi. It's four in the morning and I'm still awake. This has kind of been a common occurrence over break, which as you can guess makes going to Wildwood to read during the day kind of hard. (Impossible with Mark's parents still here and me being signed up -- against my will -- to their personal entertainment committee.)
The thing is, during the night I can escape, and last week I did so several times in order to make grocery runs for foods of mine that others had gotten into. These past couple of nights, though, I got to thinking about going to an all-night restaurant and doing some reading there. Around these parts, that basically leaves me with two options: Waffle House and Steak 'n Shake. Waffle House is kind of out of the question because they probably don't have much in the way of food I'd be interested in, and there must be something about the architecture of the restaurants that gets to me, because every time I pass a Waffle House I think to myself, "That looks like the perfect target for an armed robbery."
As for Steak 'n Shake ... well, obviously the steakburgers are out of the question, but the shakes? Milk and ice cream, nothing there I don't love. For the hell of it, I just typed in steaknshake.com into my browser now and got the official Steak 'n Shake Website. Complete with a menu listing all the varieties of shakes, malts, and other desserts they have available.
Check the menu out yourself if you dare; all of a sudden dieting doesn't seem such a good proposition to me anymore ...
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