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Before we get to the main topic… here are some random pix!

Orientation (day 2 of 3) was today. It was the college of engineering orientation:

(Yes, I was totally paying attention… between facebook and taking pictures)

Here’s the engineering-quad clocktower. Even though it’s not nearly as cool (or sound as good) as the Cornell clocktower, I have to give them props for 3 things: it’s more modern (I like modern architecture more than old), it seems to be played in a more “digital”/”mechanical” way so they can hit a lot more notes a lot more quickly (instead of the Cornell method of using 1 poor person using all his feet/hands and running around a giant “organ”), and they have multiple clocktowers! This is just the one on engineering quad:

(It looks a little like… (1) a virus w/ the hexagonal protein casing, (2) one of those sentinel-things from the Matrix (the type that was used to drill down into Zion), and (3) a penis.)

OK, and now onto the main show. So I know I shouldn’t complain about getting free food… I haven’t paid for food for like 4-5 meals in a row now. It started with pre-orientation happy hour at Bar Louie (dinner on Monday night), and then lunch at BME orientation the next day, and then BBQ at BME BBQ that afternoon, followed by boxed sandwiches at lunch today. I just couldn’t take it anymore, because the only food I have at home is sandwiches and fruit punch, too. It was just too much “cold”, “dry”, “temporary” food… I needed something real.

While attempting to eat the boxed sandwich, this one persistent bee wasp (thanks Carol) kept coming back and landing on my turkey sandwich. Seriously, this thing was so persistent I had a “trained bee wasp (thanks Carol)” at my disposal. Wherever I led my sandwich, he would follow, so I could get him to do loop-de-loops and fly in circles around my wrist. Anyway, I finally decided I was tired of him landing on my sandwich (and pollinating it? (thanks Carol)) so I broke off a piece of my turkey sandwich and led him to it using my bigger sandwich. He landed there and didn’t bother me for the rest of lunch:

So today after orientation and talking to my adivsor, Eric and I went downtown to get Chinese food. (Technically, Taiwanese food!) But along the way, one of Eric’s friends called and said that the bubble tea shop (also Taiwanese) was having 50% off entrees today. (You know bubble tea food… fried chicken pieces, fried pork, etc. with rice and some small cold veggie sides.) Well, that was no “niu rou mian” but it was cheap, it was Asian (sorta), and I could get bbt (which I did)!

MmMmMMMmm….. =D It was pretty good, I ate it all, and I bought a second entree to take home for lunch/dinner tomorrow. It was so cheap — only $3.50 for each entree!

Food craving satisfied. A few more days of free food/sandwiches and I’ll need another real-meal fix. I can’t wait until I move into my own place so I can have my own stove/pots/plates and I won’t feel bad about mooching Eric’s roommate’s stuff and I can actually start cooking again. Until then, it’s minimalistic “mafan” stuff and just sandwiches/canned food.