The Cafeteria

I wanted to make my title similar to the title of Goosebumps novel, but I am not mart enough.

My cafeteria is required to have a vegetarian option ever meal (not like it always does.) In an attempt to do so, it serves pasta primavera like 5 times a week. I can usually find something better to eat that this, because try to just shove all the pasta/ veggies they can think of into it. Today there's only one type of pasta (tri colored spirals) but often there's more than one. A combo like bowtie & penne. Today they REALLY just put in whatever vegetable they felt like though. 1) broccoli, okay that's delicious. 2) baby carrots AND sliced carrots. Way to just throw in all the extra carrots. 3) green beans, both green & yellow kind ALSO PEAPODS. Who eats green beans & peapods in the same dish. PLUS, that's all. Sometimes it's all peppers & I don't eat it.

I Think This Is Plenty

The time is 7:00AM, my friends! It's also totally 30 degrees outside.

Today I am going to:

a) finish my English reading,

b) eat breakfast,

c) straighten my room,

d) go to English from 12-1:50pm,

e) finish my earth science homework (which is due on Tuesday, trying to get ahead!)

f) buy coat, gloves & socks,

h) turn in FOUR job applications,

i) trying to get lunch & dinner in there somewhere, too.

I'm also going to try to get this done on one bus transfer.

NOT ONE GOOD THING HAPPENED TODAY

Slept was too late because Brandon was here.

Went to the gym, & it was closed.

Decided to walk around Providence instead, got lost for over two hours.

Lunch was over by the time I made it back to campus.

When I got back to my room, I found out this pizza place over charged me & WaMu gave me these crazy charges, right before then went under, & my account is overdrawn.

My curtains fell down.

My bangs were really uneven & upon trying to fix then I ruined them really badly.

Waited around the rest of the day for the plans I had to happen, got stood up.

Found out my dorm is closing three days for thanksgiving. WHERE WILL I GO?

I was finally about to fall asleep, until the phone just wouldn't stop ringing, then I finally got up to answer it, kind of worried, it was a prank caller who called back when I hung up. Eventually I cried on the phone. Since, I had already spent more of my night crying.

Honestly, I'm just going to try to get lost walking around Providence tomorrow, but for even longer. Who cares if I don't get to eat again? Who needs to eat?

Plus, all my suite mates def think I'm crazy because I was crying so loudly all night.

HONESSTLY,

like where else could I have moved besides here?

Why move if I'm not moving to the northeast?
I couldn't live outside of a major city.
All the decent schools in New York & Boston are way too expensive.
I knew a few people here already, including my current boyfriend.
There's a cheap college here with a good program in the degree I plan to achieve.

I MEAN IS THERE ANY OTHER REASON TO MOVE SOMEWHERE?
WAS THERE ANYWHERE BETTER?

BLOG POLL

I have a $600 that I bought a little over two years ago. It is broken & the repairs will cost $200-250.

My options are:

A) Spend the $200-250. Get the repairs.

B) Buy a new $600 PC Laptop that would be way nicer than my original, but still kind of crappy.

C) Buy a Refurbished Mac for $900, & have to buy it on credit. But be really happy, but IN DEBT.

D) Not have a laptop in my room, meaning I have to go to the computer lab to get online & not have music.

I'M NOT SCARED OF NOTHING. I'LL GO POUND FOR POUND.

Today I

woke up at 1:45pm, then hurried to a cafeteria to get lunch before it closed at 2:00. I ate half of my black bean wrap & like two bites of my mixed field greens that were really gross because they obvs put the dressing on them at like 10:00am. I was TOTALLY going to go to the gym next, but then Scarlett called me and asked if I wanted to go to Border's with her & that there was a bus leaving in ten minutes. I all like "Fuck Yeah!" then half-ran to make the bus in time. We got iced coffees and read books that we did not intend to buy for like two hours. I Spy books are not fun when you are twenty, by the way. I did get "Wreck This Journal" though. I think it's pretty "typical" of me. Oh well. I got some white snake skin shoes at Charlotte Russe, too. Then at 6:14pm, we realized we had to leave immediately to even have a chance of making it back to the cafeteria before it closed at 7:00pm. So we had to take this bus that dropped us over a mile a away from our school, because the one that takes us directed to it takes too long. After a lot of speed walking/ running, WE MADE IT. I got soup & a sandwich. Sassy.



Yesterday I

slept through my first class because I had been up really late fighting with Brandon on the phone. (Not sure why I'm admitting that here.) Then I missed my second class due to a FIRE in my dormitory. Apparently some girl on the sixth floor put Styrofoam in the microwave and walked away, having no idea it would explode into flames. Then I did my assigned reading for the Lit class I had just missed. Around 4 or 5pm Brandon came over. I think we just CHILLED & did homework together. We ate dinner in the cafeteria, but two people eating one meal is never super filling. Then we got my mail together & my EX-BOYFRIEND sent me a 30GB iPod with a letter through the mail. Maybe he mentioned something along the lines of thinking about me everyday in the letter, but he also said I shouldn't call him, because it makes him depressed for an entire week afterwards any time we speak. I guess I'll send him a thank you email. After more homework and a walk, Brandon & I decided he would just spend the night and take the bus home in the morning before school. We walked to the grocery store that's a little less than a mile away from my dorm. It's a place comparable to like a Minyard's in Texas, but their vegetarian section was Whole Foodsesque. We got a giant Macintosh apple, yummy vegetarian treats, pre-made twice baked potatoes & a giant bottle of sparkling blood orange juice. We heated them in non-Styrofoam containers, to prevent a second fire that day,then feasted while watching Ugly Betty on Brandon's laptop. Ugly Betty is our show, alright?



Monday I

did my homework most of the day, with food breaks. Had my Western History class from 4:00 to 7:50pm. What a Ball Breaker. If a college hour is 50 minutes, shouldn't this 4 hours class be from 4:00 to 7:20pm. Makes No Sense. Afterwards my suite mates & spend several hours making posters to decorate our suite. Yeah, I'm engaging in lots of lame "college girl" stuff with them.



Last weekend I

woke up really to catch a bus to NEW YORK CITY. I made my sister take a lot of pictures & videos which I hope to get soon. Brandon spent the night Thursday night, so he waited with me in the cold until my greyhound came to take me away. The bus ride was a little over five hours long, but pretty cool. This girl from JWU & I sprawled out over the three seats in a row in the back. Lots of sleeping & reading. When I got there my sister met me in Manhattan, then we went to the MoMA. Later Travis & Brianna met us there & we went back to my sister's loft in Brooklyn for a few beers. We tried to go to the Mount Eerie show, but poor planning led to us getting there too late & it being sold out. So we just went my to my sister's place for more beer & then we went to this party in this way rad loft like five blocks away. Next we all got obscenely drunk, my first time in over a month. The party got really crazy & there was a punk band playing with a huge mosh pit in front of it. I couldn't be inside it because there was too much beer flying everywhere & I didn't want to get soaked. Someone got a little crazy & got one of those huge canisters of dry instant oatmeal & started throwing it around like confetti. The canister was full so that lasting for a really long time. Then someone just got really out of control & started spraying a fire fire extinguisher over the entire crowd (Thank God I was on the second floor looking over everybody.) Obvs no one could breathe after this and we all had to move up to the floor. There was some pretty sweet chilling there for about an hour, until some COPS had to show up. Somehow we could just not stop partying. We met up with some guys on the street & chilled with them for like an hour. Then my sister kept calling me worried so I had to go home.



Saturday and Sunday I


Walked. Walked. Walked. Pizza. Falafel. Corn patties. China town. Statue of Liberty from afar. Union Square. Three glasses of red wine. Apples to Apples with (lame)strangers. Subway. American Folk Art Museum. Henry Darger. Henry Darger. Henry Darger.

A Few Facts About My New Love, Providence.

Walkscore.com is a website that calculates the walkability of a city. Highly walkable cities like New York, San Fransisco and Boston have scores like 83, 86 and 79 out of a 100, respectably. My campus is a little too far from the action to have a good walk score. It's 28, but my last place a residency was in the teens, however. The 2nd best place I ever lived was Oak Cliff, TX which has a walk score of 68 out of 100.

The beauty of Providence, Rhode Island is, it's easy to take a 15-20 minute bus to areas with walk scores of 95 out of 100:





The vegetarian scene is booming, especially compared to Texas. There's Nice Slice on Thayer St which has amazing vegan, vegetarian & meat pizzas. I hate paying $17 for a pizza, but it's enough for 4 or 3 really hungry people. THAT'S THE ONLY PLACE I'VE EATEN SO FAR, but here's some great places I've found:

East Side Pocket: A really popular middle eastern restaurant, that is cheap and half of their menu is veggie.
Taste of India: An Indian buffet that is cheaper, looks way tastier and has more veggie options than the Star India so many DFdubbers has been forced to settle for.
Since Providence is such a college town (over 5 major universities) one of our two Whole Foods has a college night every week.