[ she shakes her head ] Hospital food isn't bad. They want you to get healthy, after all; it's nutritious and filling, even if it isn't my favorite. But an aide brings it to you, and leaves, and comes back to get the tray... [ And it's lonely, it's so lonely, and Grace is busy during the day and rarely visits during dinner, and she has a private room, and more often than not she mixes the stuff around in its foil dishes and barely eats half, there's something crushing about that sort of meal-- she pauses, then says lightly, as if it's nothing much ] It's boring, that's all! Completely boring. It's not what I eat that matters, it's not staring at the television while I do it!