Day 3: Greek Yogurt Fruit Parfait (You Americanists Will Appreciate This)

Greek Yogurt Parfait with Kashi Cereal and Fruit

Status: Homemade but repackaged in typical impoverished grad student fashion (i.e. a saved plastic Starbucks cup). Eaten at a Starbucks location without having purchased anything there, but still maintaining appearances of being a patron. Money-saving win.

Satisfaction: 7. Love parfaits. Solid start to every single day.

Associated with: Moby Dick

Holy whale! I can feel Melville rolling in his grave already. The connection here is (if you haven't already figured it out) not the food, but the packaging--cue Starbuck the sailor man. You know you're in a grad student when you have reused a cheap, not-made-to-be-reused flimsy plastic cup every time you need to make a parfait for on-the-go; and you know you're in the English department when the first thing it reminds you of is canonical nautical literature. 

And I will say now that no, I still haven't read Moby Dick and yes, I can still be a respectable English literature scholar without having done so. Take a shot at me with your harpoons if you dare, Americanists. I double dog dare you.