  When moving out of the apartment you've shared for a couple of years with an ex, be sure to rummage carefully in the large rotating shelf thingy at the corner of the countertop in your kitchen.
There, you will find a veritable treasure trove of environmentally-unfriendly individual serving boxes of cereal. A few, like Total, you'll feel tempted to throw away, cos you don't like Total, but there will be a few lovely boxes of Golden Grahams, an inordinate number of plain Cheerios, and happily, like manna from heaven, a few boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios.
When the afternoon wears thin, and you're feeling a bit noshy, but knowing that candy will not help you stay awake and alert, go ahead and open up that desk drawer, the one that's got these little boxes stacked neatly next to each other - you brought them in a couple of weeks ago for a moment just like this one, and you had forgotten about them until just now.
Rip open the top of the box, tug out the plastic bag inside, and snip the very top of the bag off with your scissors. Pour several Cheerios into your hand and toss them back like popcorn, or go the more genteel route, picking them out of the bag like little tiny multi-grain hoop-shaped bon bons. Wash down with cold water. Or coffee. 
