Rations

My roommate and I shared a kitchen with one other pair of roommates. I was the only one of the four who stayed, so I've got the kitchen to myself now. Which is nice I suppose. But while I do like and know how to cook. I've never been in a situation quite like this. I have to buy all my own food. Also, I have to plan actual meals! How weird!

Joking aside, it really is weird for me. My girlfriend and I went shopping and bought some stuff on sale.

• Cheap pancake mix. (It's like $2 for a whole box with 14 servings)
• Stuff for tuna salad. (there was some pricing shenanigans going on there.)
• Some frozen shrimp.
• Some other stuff

Aside from what we bought I have all the stuff laying around:

• Some squash.
• A sweet potato. 
• A whole bunch of peanut butter and other assorted things of that nature (jam, honey)
• And my multivitamin protein mix thing that I bought awhile ago.

With the tuna, we were about to get a larger tin rather than several smaller tins, but we looked again at the prices and realized that the exact same amount of tuna in smaller tins would cost half as much as one large tin. Needless to say we bought the smaller tins, and they were priced quite well for about 50 cents each.

Next time I go shopping I think I'll swing by hMart and pick up a box of their bulk noodles. Even though they're imported they are far cheaper than the stuff offered in most stores around. Each box has like 30 packs, and I think the boxes are about $8. However, now that I think about it that sounds too good to be true, so I'll have to report back on that. Other than that, I think I'll pick up a container of their kimchi and go with the not super budget type of pancake mix. You know, the type which calls for milk and eggs, not just water. Plus then I'll have eggs milk! The milk will make smoothies with all that frozen fruit I have much easier. Also some beans, and rice.

Like Harry in Hogwarts.

Although finals have been over for about a week now, this is only the end of my second day or so in the dorms. I spent thanksgiving at my grandmother's house in a nearby city and have only recently returned. I've only been here two days, and I'm already bored enough to write a blog about living in the dorms. It just goes to show how much free time I have. Which, come to think of it, doesn't bode well for how interesting a read this will turn out to be.

I thought about doing a vlog. Then I realized that I don't have a webcam on my desktop, and my laptop sucks so I avoid using it whenever possible.

So that was out the window.

Now, here I am, starting a blog. Something I've done four times now. Hopefully this will go better than the last ones.

My first attempt at a blog was begotten out of boredom in a 9th grade AP human geography course. It was on the strategies being used in the lower leagues of StarCraft II. I try not to think about it.

Then I tried to use a blog as a memory bank during my time as a foreign exchange student in Switzerland. And while some of the stuff on there is alright (I might copy and paste my favorite stuff into later posts), I ended up totally falling off with my writing because I got so sucked into life there.

Finally, I started a blog as part of a high school project in order to chronicle my progress in training for a marathon. As with all the other ones, I started off strong, but then fell off in my posts, which isnt to say I fell off in my training. In fact, even though I didn't meet the virtual goal of posting every time I ran, I did meet the goal of running the marathon. Marathons are hard guys.

I hope this has instilled confidence in you, dear readers, that I'll manage to keep up the updates.

Which is obviously a joke, because my track record indicates that exactly the opposite will happen. But I have faith in myself here, because I seriously have a lot of free time and nothing to do. There's no one around, and the eerie silence of the dorms is made almost oppressive by the cold, snowy weather outside. I need something to do to occupy my time, so I might as well do something productive. I want to write during the whole six week break (5 weeks left at this point.) Maybe I'll improve, maybe I'll just get used to writing every day. Either way, it'll help with the two writing classes I'm taking next quarter.

In addition to writing this blog, I'm just going to write. Short stories, maybe I'll post them here. I dunno.

Part of the reason I wanted to stay was that Harry Potter stayed in the dorms over winter break in the books. So here I am, Harry Potter in my Hogwarts. Except I'm not named Harry. I'm not a wizard: I'm an economics student. And this isn't a cozy castle: it's a silent, Orwellian looking tower with low ceilings, and narrow corridors dimly lit with flickering florescent tubes.