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‘I Was So Absorbed in My Notes That I Had Forgotten to Have Lunch’
A forbidden snack while studying, exercise to start the day and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
No Food Allowed
Dear Diary:
It was 3 p.m. on a snowy Saturday in December, and I was in Butler Library at Columbia University studying for my final exams. I realized that I was so absorbed in my notes that I had forgotten to have lunch.
Despite being in a place where I knew eating was prohibited, I pulled a protein bar out my backpack. The crinkle of the wrapper prompted the student sitting across from me to stop typing and tilt his head to study me.
“No Food Allowed,” a sign on the table said.
He looked at me, then at the sign and back at me. Then he smiled, pulled an apple out of his bag and took a big bite.
— Katherine Wang
Keep On Moving
Dear Diary:
I was doing my morning tai chi warm-ups in outside my home in Carroll Gardens when I noticed a flatbed truck loaded with building supplies parked nearby.
