Blogs, as we know, are an excellent forum for exchanging important ideas and sharing experiences with the world at large. In that spirit, I bring you Part One of a ground-breaking series that I call "Lunch with Cubey", in which I share the experience of eating a cubicle-dweller's lunch.

Today, lunch is a salad from the Robson Public Market. I'll take off the cover now. It's kind of goopy with ranch dressing. Now I'm picking up the plastic fork.

I'm starting with a celery stick. Mmm. Plastic forks never seem to be strong enough to really stab into a celery stick. Carrots too. Crunch crunch crunch crunch.

A few of croutons. Did you know that the word crouton comes from the French word, croûton? It's true. It's also crunchy.

Now I'm eating a salad olive. Mmm. Tangy.

Cucumber slices. Cherry tomatoes. Those ones are always risky--there's a chance that it might explode when you bite it. This one didn't, fortunately.

Feta cheese. Can't have a good salad without it. More feta.

Broccoli now. I think I'll name this piece Albert.

The chunks of green pepper liven up the salad a bit.

Green lettuce now. I dislike iceberg lettuce because it's flavourless.

More lettuce.

More lettuce.

More lettuce.

Lettuce still...

I think I put too much lettuce in this one.

Oh, no. Under a layer of green pepper, I discovered another layer of lettuce! I thought the lettuce was over. I can't seem to get to the end of this stuff.

I need a break. There are splatters of ranch dressing all over my keyboard, and the some bits of the chopped green onion have escaped and lodged themselves in the CD-ROM drive.

Disaster strikes! As I reached for a sip of carrot juice, I knocked over the salad container. The horror! The horror!

My only recourse is to abandon my desk and move to the meeting table, carrying a handful of dripping leaves. I'll attempt that now.

In my haste, I slipped on a cucumber slice. Now there's carrot juice all over the floor. Cordon off the area!

Next time on "Lunch with Cubey": the take-out sushi combo dilemma... maki or nigiri? Will the drama never end?