that time of the semester

It's about that time in the semester when each day you feel as though you have about five things due in class and about three tests. Whether this just feels like the case or whether it is actually true is irrelevant, no matter what you will stay up until about three AM trying to finish everything up, maybe watching an episode of the office in between. And during these assignments it has been my habit to also get a snack or two. It's weird that food really does help you stay up to finish homework or study. I have to thank food for that.

Food for the Weekend

So I went home this past weekend and I didn't realize the vast difference between the food I eat here as a poor college student doing my own shopping and home where my mom buys all the food. Its a huge difference, not only in the amount of food I eat but what types of food. I go for the cheap stuff here but my parents can afford the high end stuff: basically not top ramen. White vs. Wheat, Beans vs. Meat, PB&J vs. Turkey and Provolone. I got spoiled and now I am back to eating soup and saltines. It seems like going home almost everything had to do with food: meeting up with friends for dinner, road trip snacks, out to eat with the parents, s'mores over the fire, etc. I felt like the activities were revolving around food, which isn't a bad thing at all. We had 6 friends come with me and my sister so our refrigerator was PACKED full of food! My mom took every precaution she could so that we wouldn't go hungry.

Chinese Food?

The best part of a Chinese food is the fortune cookie! I love them so much. When my group went to a chinese food place for our restaurant review we received chocolate covered fortune cookies which were so good. For valentines day my roomate's mom bought us dark chocolate covered fortune cookies which were absolutely to die for! I just ate one so that I could share with you guys my fortune:

"Seek friends that know when to offer advice, and when to sit in quiet support"

..so true.

What I have come to notice lately is that everyone does things just because people they like or people they know are doing it. I guess because this never really mattered to me, it has been bugging me lately:

I am planning on going home for president’s day weekend and when I told one of my friends that she should come with me she replied “eh that won’t be fun…I have homework to do…” pretty much listed off roughly 8 excuses so that I wouldn’t be able to concentrate on one in which to engage in debate. She made it clear that she didn’t want to even harvest the idea so I dropped it. The next day, I mentioned this trip to three of my other friends, that they should come home with me and they got really excited so the plans were made. When my first pessimistic “I don’t want to go to California” friend heard this news(one of the peole that are now going is a boy she likes) she now made it clear that she now suddenly had no plans, no homework, and has since then dedicated her life to being excited about the trip.

I realized that people do this a lot with places to eat too. I know people that go into starbucks because of people who they hope to see there, not to order anything. Or people who go to one restaurant or the other because the guy they have a crush on loves that place and they want to tell him they’ve been there too.

I think that people should adopt the philosophy of doing what they want. This peer pressure/trendy idea is driving me nuts. This blog is probably making me hypocritical because I am sure I am guilty of the same thing now and again. Oh well no one really knows me so they can’t prove it :)