She laughed as she took lunch from him.  "Yeah, not much to cook.  All the local take out places know me by name.  I usually call in and say "Hey, It's Lu.  I can pick up at this time, and they have the order ready for me.  It's like my own special magic."  She took a seat across from him in a wing backed chair that had seen better days.  

"Three meals a day huh?"  She said as she blew on the soup a little before taking a bite.  "Can't say I usually manage that, but I do cheat.  I make my own homemade protein bars.  Oatmeal, peanut butter, and Spirulina.  If it is a week I am getting my 5k in three times I add mini chocolate chips.  In your line of work I can imagine there are times good meals are hard to come by.  You should look into Spirulina.  The World Health Organization uses it as a meal replacement in some areas.  In large enough doses it provides everything the human body needs except for calories and fats."  She said.  

She ate silently for a minute, She would have done great in the military with an eat it now taste it later mentality.  She didn't particularly care for Ramen either, but it was fast cheap and filling, so she wolfed it down.  "Once I finish my last two classes, and my thesis things should calm down.  I have, as you know, you and your team are very through, a BS, but a bachelor degree is fairly useless.  After 9/11 the field of emergency management exploded.  There is a lot of call for it.  I am guessing your agency has more than a couple on staff, and if they don't they probably should, but because of a glut of those of us with degrees, mostly military vets, positions are hard as hell to come by."   She sighed softly.  She was passionate about this field, it let her know a lot about so many things she was interested in, and not need to specialize in any one thing.  

"Oh speaking of your agency.  If it is alright, I would like an email for Ronald.  I have a few questions for him.  I know the basics of running dogs in emergent situations, but nothing like a handler does.  I want to know more, so I am never asking for more than they can give, but I also don't want to deal with handlers who aren't giving me the real picture."   That was Lucia, she was always thinking, always trying to learn more, to KNOW more.  Anything that would make her faster, better at her chosen job.