sometimes you can just smell a horrendously shitty day on the horizon. pardon my french, but today was one of those days. i woke a little after 8am (having not been able to get to sleep till about 4am) groggy, grumpy, hungry, etc. not looking forward to work. coff-ay didn’t pick me up, instead it gave me a sour stomach. i was all grumpy and stuff, right up till about noonish when i went down to the cafeteria for some soop. then i started thinking about how soop seems to represent some kind of ambrosia, a healing nectar of sorts. “got a cold? try some chick’n soop!” or “hey, a flu, definately have some veggie soop.” is it just a catch-all for things we can’t really heal? i mean, you don’t hear things like “man, a sub-dermal hematoma, we better get this guy some chowder..”. but still, when you think of soop, it’s got this image (at least in my mind) of having healing quantities. a nice, steaming bowl just waiting to refresh you and take away all your aches and pains. anyways, i went to the cafeteria and checked out their soops of the day. they always have chili and 2 others, the others were some kind of nasty chowder (i’m not big into any white soops except cream of broccoli) and a hearty-looking beef noodle. so i scoop out the beef noodle, grab some crackers, pay my $2.50 and head back to my cube. i pick up some doritos and a snapple en route and dig in. and after my soop, a wonderous thing happened, i started to feel better. my stomach settled, warmth spread through me, and suddenly i was right with the world. don’t get me wrong, it didn’t do any work for me, or deal with those marketing peeps, or anything like that, but still, it did perk me up. so my advice for those of you having a crummy day.. head to the store, or local deli, or whatever.. and have some soop.

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