disgruntled breakfast

My plan for this long weekend was to get everything done by Sunday, such that on Monday I can use my time to catch up on watching Japanese tv.

Unfortunately, I didn’t actually accomplish anything on Saturday. This is not for lack of trying: in fact, I did accomplish helping make some peppermint cookies with Jono and Angelina (these cookies taste like Christmas). Then I headed over to ACM where sure enough Nathan and David were attempting work on Sucrose. I worked on my CS homework, and by that I don’t mean figuring out what I think the solutions are (because I’m mostly done with that part), but putting it into a pretty LaTeX document was the part i worked on yesterday. There was something wrong with my LaTeX setup on my computer, and the first disk image of MacTeX I downloaded did not work. Either it was a bad mirror I chose to download from, or the fact that I was using firefox, but the second one worked and then I spent a while sitting in the ACM office listening to people blame each other for why Sucrose doesn’t work, as I worked through some tutorials for LaTeX. People got hungry and we went to lunch around 4.

Now let me make my complaint about meals at my dorm. I realize going to lunch at 4 may be a little late, but the fact that dinner ENDS at 6 pm on Saturdays is completely ridiculous. I predict that I will never eat dinner at my dorm on Saturday for this reason — I’m out, doing things, I can’t be bothered to come back that early.

And the lack of food continues. Since all I did yesterday homework-wise was learn HOW to type my CS homework, I still have a lot of work to actually DO. Thus I needed to get up at a reasonable hour and get going to the library. I checked online what time Sunday brunch opens, and on the website it says 9:30. So I showed up around 10am, at which point there were about three people there, and there was basically no food. “Um… when will there be food?” Apparently there is no hot food until 10:30. So I had some fruit and a bagel and one of the two remaining people in the cafeteria griped at me as well about the fact that we can’t wait until 10:30 to eat breakfast.

I guess one option would be to get up early, eat food in my room, study, and then come back for brunch and use that as lunch. But you never know how much food there will be left when you come late to a meal.

Plus, isn’t Saturday night at 6pm to Sunday morning at 10:30 am kind of a long timespan between meals? Normally dinners end at 7pm (still far too early) and breakfast starts the next morning at 7am.

Aside from the normal lack of food on Sundays, this weekend has an added bonus of no food on Monday thanks to Labor Day. I have been collecting food all weekend and I went grocery shopping too (I had no ramen in my room before last night–really tragic) so I definitely will not starve on Monday, but it’s still sort of a nuissance.

So those are my complaints for today. Soon I will be meeting Nathan to think once again about a question or two on the CS homework. It’s kind of confusing and we have reached different conclusions at different times, so we’re going to have one more shot at it, and then (hopefully) submit the homework.