a bowl full of nerves.

I know people tend to use the word 'basket' when referring to what they store their antsy feelings in - i too have used the phrase for years, but it just didn't feel right when i said it earlier today. When I imagine what nerves must look like, I confess that my first visual is of a rather small version of ground beef. And of course the idea of ground beef in a basket is simply absurd. Swap the basket for a bowl though, and you're cooking - perhaps literally.

* For the record, I don't have a basket or a bowl of nerves at the moment.