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... often just a handful of months, not years, and sometimes not even that if you acquire the pet pre-trained. Then it's a good decade, sometimes more (depends on breed and circumstance, of course), of pet-stuff of niceness. S'definitely sad to see them go, but being there and a part of a fair many years of happiness (if you're doing it right, anyway) and good living for another living thing is... worth it? I'd say.

I'd have at least a cat at the moment, if maintenance didn't cost as much as it did

All I know is you don't fuck with what feeds you, unless that's specifically part of the contract involved. If the microwave feeds you, you don't mess with it. If the microwave feeds your room mate(s), you don't mess with it else they mess with you. Mess with with the forks and knives they're no longer able to use to eat with, since you broke the microwave. The pattern extends to stoves, mini ovens, sugar mamas/daddies, etc. Biting the hand that feeds you or someone else is the fastest way to get your teeth violently torn out. When you're not fed, you don't have much else to do beyond inflict violence upon your surroundings until the problem is fixed, really.

Keep the bread coming lest you leaven the next loaf. Rule #1 of pretty much every successful everything ever.

Belated E: I'm also now wondering if there are (how many?) recipes for bread that involve blood in the baking process. I'd imagine so, really, but I don't think I've ever heard of one. Or any indication of general taste.

I found a series of "homework edits" on Youtube, all containing the works of some musician called Nujabes. They're very good for their stated purpose.

Nujabes is pretty legit. Did a good chunk of the Samurai Champloo music.

I played some of the earlier (SNES) ones a little bit... and I'm kinda' fond of the NES RPG based off RoTK. Nothing more recent than that, though, and I kinda' like my strategy with a bit more fancy than the RoTK strategy games traditionally incorporate, heh. They tend to be objectively good stuff, though.

One of these days I'll play a newer one

You don't have a kitchen? How does that even work. Do you get paid to live where you live now or what?

Most dorms I've heard of have a communal one at the best. The most the ones I've actually been in only had a microwave for the individual rooms; no stove access at all.* You also couldn't (or, at least, couldn't be caught) have anything in the room with an open heating element, which further limited things.

As for how it works. It works by the college shoving a food plan down its students throats**, eating out, and microwaves (/the limited amount of other cooking stuff that didn't involve a fine if you were caught with it in your room).

*One actually had a limited access, so to speak, communal kitchen. For the entire (200+ room building, iirc) dorm. Actual access was discontinued fairly early in the semester because the kitchen basically got fucked up. Or something. I'unno, I nuked everything. After a point using the communal kitchen for cooking was prefaced with "will fine your ass if you try". Something along those lines.
**Sometimes almost literally -- I've seen more than one case where it was mandatory for freshmen. Let it be known there would have been words if I hadn't been transferring in with an AA, and that bullshit would not have stood if they wanted my tuition and room money.

I don't remember the one I went to having anything in particular along those lines. They had a fairly decent price/quantity/quality mixture (decent food in large-ish amounts for a pretty reasonable price), but it was still considerably (2-3x multiplier per meal) more expensive to eat there, compared to cooking. Was a fair bit cheaper (Somewhere between 1.5 and 3 bucks per meal for a comparative amount) compared to other eat-out places, but not gratuitously so.

For MSH's plan, 900 bucks over a semester is... probably an easy (which is to say, underestimating) $2-400 overpriced compared to home cooking, even if you're stuck using a microwave (more than $100-120 or so per month is pushing it for a single individual, in my experience). At least if NC college town prices are in line with north florida college town prices. But that sixty buck bump on the low end is at least 3, 3 1/2 weeks worth of food in and of itself.

That one's for the gipper, I guess. Gotta' keep them darn college kids from voting somehow. Make sure they're too broke paying for food to afford the gas to reach the voting booths.

Students who are spending time budgeting, shopping, and cooking are students who have less time to study (or, in the vast majority of cases, to get wasted and make poor decisions).

You only really have to do the first one once, the second one once or twice a month, and the last one usually takes barely more (if not outright less, especially on the net if you cook for a few days at the time) time than transit to food. It's effort (and will) more than time investment, really.

Kitchen access is a bigger issue, but... you can do a lot with a microwave if you know how to roll it, and probably take the time before you hit college (or during some down time, between semesters or whatever) to do some testing with local materials to see what works best. Sure, it probably took a few months before I found rice that did alright nuked (and figured out how to cook it that way and it turn out alright), but if I had actually got down to the brass tacks and did a solid sampling of local grocery offers it would have taken a day or two on the outside. Just as an example, heh.

Last week, I heard about it in class. Today, I checked to confirm.

There is. They.

... they're turning 50 shades of grey into a movie.

Why, non-existent and uncaring gods? Why? besides the obvious "money"