Rant Tuesday

As I promised, being back at UMass has lead me into many a recent rant. On my walk back from class today, I decided that a few of them should be shared with you as well. You may agree with some of them, you may disagree, you may think I'm an even bigger jerk than you previously thought. I'm over it.

First, my most recent rant. I know there are some of you who will disagree with this one. However . . . milk, vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup is NOT a chocolate milkshake. That is a vanilla milkshake with some chocolate syrup. That shit still tastes like vanilla and is not the least big enjoyable for me. Milk, CHOCOLATE ice cream and perhaps some chocolate syrup is a chocolate milkshake which is delicious. Today, between my classes I decided to go get a chocolate milk shake at the campus center. I waited 20 minutes because it was prime feeding hours but the picture lead me to believe that this milkshake would be delicious. (and yes, for those of you at UMass ready to tell me, I know it is frozen yogurt, not ice cream. still delicious.) However, I get up there and watch the girl make it and die a little inside when I see her use the vanilla ice cream. If it were less busy, I probably would have said something but the place was packed and I didn't feel like making this girl's day any worse. I still drank it because I was hungry but it was for sure a vanilla milk shake.
This is a severe problem that I have. I really do not enjoy vanilla ice cream but it is soooo popular around here. I HATE going to a restaurant and every dessert comes with vanilla ice cream and they don't even offer chocolate. If I were ever to open a restaurant I would only serve chocolate and every time someone asked for vanilla I would instruct the servers to come tell me so I could run out yelling "HOW DOES IT FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL!?!?!?!?" yes, it's a little extreme, but I am tired of the injustice.
Moral of the story is, if you ever offer someone a milkshake and they ask for chocolate; do the right thing and use chocolate ice cream.

Another issue that I am having daily here at UMass, specifically in my dorm, is that someone keeps propping the bathroom door open. First of all it's super awkward to just keep it wide open so everyone walking by can check it out. But the real problem is that I live right next to the bathroom. When the door is shut, it's not too much of a problem, but when the door is open I can hear everything. When the hand dryer goes on, I can hear nothing but the obnoxious sound of the epic UMass hand dryers. Everyone time I walk by, I shut the door but there is clearly someone doing the opposite. Perhaps someday we shall meet and battle it out. (as I proof read this, someone has propped it open)

Yesterday's rant is a mix of dumb people and useless people. I went down to the kitchen to wash some dishes and quickly realized that the drank was clogged because someone had put a ton of food down the drain without using the garbage disposal which was now not working at all. I mean, really regardless of the garbage disposal you shouldn't put that much food down the drain, that's just stupid. So, I did the right thing and went to tell an RA. Naturally, my RA is no where to be found, I haven't seen her since the first week of school but I was able to find the 3rd floor RA who basically told me there was nothing she could do about.

This leads me into another rant about the kitchen here. It is DISGUSTING. I don't know where these people are from but they clearly have MUCH lower standards of food preparation sanitation than I do. The counters constantly have huge puddles of water and other spilled liquids and the stove is always crusted over with food and sauce. Some how these girls think that they can just use the kitchen and leave it like that and the kitchen fairy will come and clean it for them. We do have a cleaning guy, but he doesn't sit outside the kitchen and clean it after every use. I have no meal plan, 80% of my food is made in that kitchen and it's disgusting. I'm not the most cleanly person, but I can barely tolerate it.

Another extreme inconvenience is that my mailbox combination is wrong. There are quite a few people here who can not get into their mailboxes. I spoke to an RA who was with another girl having the same problem. She told me to talk to the cluster office. They had had several other people with the same complaint. They took my info and I have not heard back. I don't even know how this is possible. How do you suddenly give out the wrong combination when you had the right ones last semester. The best part is, they have no idea how to fix this problem. AHHH, these people kill me. I have no idea how this university runs.

I think that's enough ranting for now.


Today's recipe is the chocolate milk shake

milk
chocolate ice cream
chocolate syrup
blend into creamy chocolaty deliciousness.



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Back to School Edition

Alrighty, so I've been at UMass for a little over a week now and I am finally getting around to writing about it. It's been a semi-eventful week I guess.

First off, I was pleasantly surprised when I got to my room. It was much bigger than I expected it to be. I have plenty of room for all of my stuff and a massive closet which is very helpful. I will post some pictures at the end.

It took me until Thursday to figure out my schedule. I had to drop my women's studies class because I definitely did not fit in. Everyone was a feminist vegetarian (it was a class on women and food) and most were women's studies majors. Also, the professor felt the need to bash Thanksgiving on her syllabus which I found completely unnecessary. She went on about how its a day of mourning for the genocide of the indigenous people. Pleeeeeeeeease. I HATE how many pretentious hippy professors there are here at UMass. If their beliefs and ideas have something to do with the subject they are teaching, then I can bear to listen to them. But to just randomly share your hippy ideals with us is not helpful, it just makes me angry.
Also I had a teacher who (not his fault) made us get our books at a certain downtown Amherst bookstore (Not Amherst Books). I HATE this bookstore but apparently everyone in the sociology department uses it and this professor is new so I can't blame him. But anyway, my reasoning for disliking this bookstore is that last year, Jon had to buy a book there for one of his classes and the book was about capitalism. The woman at the register looks at the book and says something like "ugh! Capitalism! Why would you even buy this book!?" and Jon was like "Um, it's for a class, calm down" That is so unnecessary. Obviously its the beginning of the semester and he got it from the text book section, he's not just picking it up for a nice read. Ugh, I hate hippies like that! If they would just keep their hippiness to themselves, then I would have no problem with them but they insist on trying to get everyone around them to become hippies too. I don't go around trying to get them to use the text book annex (although life would be much easier if they would!) or make them shop at macy's or something. Hippies that just live their lives and let other be are perfectly fine with me, but some of these professors are ridiculous.

I also dropped my anthro class because it was terribly boring. I picked up two food science classes in place of the two dropped classes. They're both really big just get the notes and take the test classes. Those are the best.

My favorite class is "Comic Art in North America" because I'm a huge nerd. The professor is super cool and used to work for Kitchen Sink Press. He worked with Will Eisner and wrote a few books about him.

Last night I saw Bo Burnham with Jess, Craig and Kenny, that was exciting! He was funny as always. Amy Anderson was with him as well, I had never heard of her, but she is real funny as well. Afterwards (apparently that's not a word?) I hung out with Craig and Kenny for the rest of the night which was exciting because I'm pretty sure it was the first time I'd been out of my dorm passed 10 o'clock (I'm a terribly boring college student)

Today Umass Laundry struck again!! We have brand new washer and dryers BUT the card reader doesn't work so you have to use quarters. I had to go to the snack machine, put in a few dollars and press the coin return to get enough to do the laundry. Nothing kills me more than the incompetancy of UMass.

Today's recipe is a snow pea salad

1 lb fresh snow peas
1 T olive oil
1 orange pepper (or red, yellow or green) julienned or chopped
1 clove minced garlic
3 T honey

In a skillet, saute the snow peas in olive oil for 3 minutes. Add pepper and garlic and saute for another minute or two. Add the honey and season with salt and pepper.

pics of the new room!

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