It is a happy week even though I have been unproductive for most of it. There however are observations to be made, and observations I shall make…
Buying and cooking salmon steaks is probably not the best way to save money by not going out, it provides a sumptuous meal, which would probably cost far more on the outside, but hmm well as long as you’re trying to save money you might as well compare it with things you would normally eat, and it is about as expensive as eating out.
Cooking in general is fun when done with friends, though on an empty college campus, without friends it depends very much on how you react. Hence in general planning to cook for Spring Break might be a lot more effective than deciding to cook for Thanksgiving, when everyone who can go home, goes home.
If you do decide to cook, you probably want a Swiss Army knife (could tell you this while I was back home), however if you are truly up to it, buying one of those big kitchen knife sets (don’t have one) is probably better.
Sure Olive Oil is good for your heart and stuff, but you probably should not be extending a certain amount of it per food type.
Horror movies in general are not always nice, crappy horror movies are both not nice, and not scary, making them a long object lesson in why you probably shouldn’t be watching a certain movie or a certain genre of movies. Flatliners is perhaps the only such movie I have watched before making this allegation, but seeing it once was enough.
If your math professor mentions the words drunk/tired, John Conway, and calendar in the same sentence you should probably get perked up to receive awfully fun way to link days and dates encoded in the lines of a not bad poem.
Above mentioned words are probably not the best way to attract prefrosh with parents, but the decision is still out about prefrosh who come in alone.
Spring Break is a bad time to visit college campuses as a prefrosh, especially if it is pouring cats and dogs, hell I didn’t have a good impression of Providence earlier today when it was raining as if there was no end to it, and all my poor clothes were getting or at least feeling wet (ya, you see my jacket was not letting any water through, but my t-shirt still felt wet), and well as discussed with most people who visited colleges, the weather makes a big impact on future decisions to attend colleges, as does the number of people in a campus…
Umbrellas are way better at keeping you dry as compared to a waterproof jacket. It took me many a year to realize this, but there are things for which you just can’t use a waterproof jacket, or rather you could use them, but there are chances that you’d end up being wet, or feeling wet at the very least.
Confusing friends in nameless blog entries is übber easy, clearing out the mess, often not, so make sure you know who you are writing about before writing, more importantly be sure to somehow indicate in round-about convoluted terms who it is you may be writing about, so that people would be able to assign probability values, and probably not make a mistake (whew).
Have said this before, will say this again: sleeping bags are useful while in college.
Spring Break is nice because more people stay, than do at Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving is nice because the weather is (not) better than it is now.
When it rains as if the monsoons are here, and you’re not in one of those places which are affected by the monsoons annually, acting like it is the monsoons is not a bad idea, even if actions and coordinates may not completely match.
Pouches are called fanny packs in North America for some reason, probably similar to why aluminium is called aluminum, and it is really quite frustrating to step into a store looking for a pouch only to have people give you weird looks.
Carrying pouches from home is a good idea if you own a Game Boy, or even if you don’t, regretting not carrying one is a common occurrence and should not cause much discomfort.
That’s about all, my bags are packed, I leave for New York early tomorrow morning, and will be out of contact for a while, probably until late evening on Saturday…
Ze Panda