So today I was REALLY hungry, and i waited about 3 hours beyond that. I was so hungry, so I ate some canned corn and left over cold fried rice from yesterday. EMM.. little nutritional value at all, but at least it kept me going, while i cooked something with at least a bit more filling.

So that got me thinking. Remember those dire student days when you're starving and searching for food? I was lucky, since i'm living at home now and there's stuff around the house.. but remember (or perhaps you're living it now) those days when you're busy studying or working on an essay due at 12:00 monday, and suddenly you realize you haven't eaten since you got up? And now it's dark?

When you're beyond the part where you're hungry anymore, but to the point where it comes BACK and you are starting to think a bit differetnly.. when the sarchasm increases and everything edible looks good; and the not-so-edible looks suddenly edible if you think about it. Let's call this the "Raccoon Zone".

Gosh, it's kind of sick how "resourceful" (err.. desperate) a starving student can be when you're in the racoon zone. Never mind speaking to them, since they're busy scavenging around the pathetic room called the student kitchen, where you only have sketchy canned equality brand legumes from probably the past students 2 years ago, old milk and tons of Mac&Cheese.. Thank goodness for that! I prefer the master's choice white cheddar, and in fact, it takes like fine diniing when you're eating it. But what if you're out of Mac&Cheese? What if the staples are all gone? That being:

1. Mac&Cheese
2. Mr. Noodles (or another brand)
3. Chicken Nuggets
4. Hot dogs / Burgers
5. Campbells Soup (or equivilent)
6. Pasta anything

Oh SHIT, you've waited too long to get groceries! Man, it was my roomates fault, dammit! What else!? Now what? No money to grab food? Here's a list of some of the things that i've eaten, or have witnessed my housemates "creatively" consume for dins:

1. Cereal - Can't go wrong here!
2. Canned Corn / Very old mysterious canned vegetables
3. Cutting the mouldy part from bread, utilziing the "it's still good! it's still good!!" homer paradigm
4. SPAM --- ok, i dono about this one.. but i've heard stories..
5. Melba toast
6. A roomate's leftovers - blame it on the guy who always gets blamed. If you're the guy who always get blamed, then when caught, say "man, why do i always get blamed? I need more respect in this household"
7. KD with Chocolate milk. oh my.
8. Your carepackage freebees -- never thought you'd eat that last package of [enter free promo proctor brand that's bombing and they're now dumping on students]did ya?
9.Entire package of hotdogs, raw (You know who you are my asian girlfriend!)
10. A healthy combination of pretzels, cheese and pickles
11. Frozen pack of vegetables -sadly, the mind wasn't thinking "put it in the microwave"
12. Tostitos, Toblerone bar, and some Chewable Vitamin C's -- need your vitamins.. perhaps not 6 though.. but at least it will go through the system!

wow the memories. No wonder why we all look like shit in our student days.
So do you guys have any others? May be even if you're living at home, i'm sure you've got stories. I've love to hear others (Ms. Lovely, i bet you have some wicked ones to share :P ).

Take care,

RE

"eat drink and be merry"