Two words can very easily sum my current state, stupid rain. Because electricity in Florida is about as relible as Cheny's heart, rain screws everything up. I had been doing various little electricity aided things and thinking about going to dinner, when at 5:30 the power went out.
Power outages are common, but they don't normally last for long. I decided to go to dinner because the rain didn't look that heavy, and i figured that the Student Union would have power. Heh, I'm queen of the idiots.
I didn't get to wet on my way to the Student Union, even though I nearly got trampled by a sority girl in wood-bottomed platforms who was foolishy trying to run in the storm. I was wrong, there was no power in the cafteria, and the food looks even less appealing when you can't tell what it is. Also all of the kitchen stuff had died, so there was precious little food. Not even the old fallback of grilled cheese or pasta. I got served watery corn, and despite my request of no meat, something that while it was meant to imply beef strongnaff looked like stewed horse. And not a healthly horse at that. I also had something that was pretending to be black bean soup, and it's really hard to tell what you're getting in the dark when a soup is well black. So dinner was little bit of watery corn, the world's strangest version of black bean soup (more or less half-cooked beans thrown into lukewarm water with a bit on onion salt), and chocolate ice cream. God, I'm hungry. I think that the food services plan is to starve vegetarians into submission, there will come a point when we'll be too worn out from malnutrition and will gladly do anything if Sodexho-Marriot will just give us food. I hate Sodexho-Marriot.
On the walk back, it was raining harder. And is that hail?! That had better not be hail, if that's hail I'm going to be really pissed....yeah, it's hail. Plus I got spalshed by several speeding cars, so I was soggy and grumpy by the time I entered Victory Mansions. Still no power yet. Meaning I had to walk up 8 flights of stairs in soaking wet pants and smushy shoes. Yippie.
The power didn't come back on until past 9:30. I missed it. Electricity, I love you, don't ever leave me again. I shall now go take advantage of the elctricity by making rice, and foiling the evil Sodexho-Marriot's plans once again. |
