6:14 p.m. I’ve spent the final six hours catching up on work for the newspaper and now I’m grouchy and hungry as I make dinner. Tonight, one in all my finest mates and I are having some mates over for dinner. Most seniors at my faculty stay off campus, which implies we’ve been internet hosting and attending loads of dinner events and housewarmings just lately. Tonight, we’re making penne alla vodka with sautéed mushrooms, in addition to a pleasant serving of garlic (however largely butter) bread. I ate this meal for many of my breakfasts, lunches, and dinners final semester as a result of it’s one of many few meals I can really prepare dinner, and including a heavy hand of purple pepper flakes at all times helps.
The elements for the pasta, bought at Entire Meals by my roommate and cut up evenly between us, embrace: penne pasta ($1.69), tomato paste ($2.19), heavy cream ($4.29), yellow onion ($3.97), mushrooms ($5.98), garlic ($1.15), bread ($6.99).
6:23 p.m. We’re consuming our meal with a cocktail my housemate brewed in a defunct Brita—she grew to become a grasp cocktail mixer over the summer time. The drink is a mixture of Deep Eddy’s lemonade vodka, a number of Excessive Midday seltzers, cranberry juice, and pink lemonade (all beforehand bought). The lemonade vodka doesn’t want any chaser, however the cranberry juice and pink lemonade are so overpowering you possibly can barely style the alcohol. You continue to handle to get the identical results, fortunately.
The pasta, sizzling in each its temperature and spice degree, is making the temperature within the condominium barely insufferable. However not as insufferable as listening to my pal discuss all the cash she made at her summer time banking job.
10:32 p.m. My mates and I are going to a housewarming occasion down the block from our condominium, which is a rarity as a result of few fellow seniors select to stay as removed from campus as we do. The quick stroll may be very welcomed contemplating the suffocating summer time warmth (you’ll assume the Ocean State will get a pleasant breeze each on occasion). All three of us are consuming mint chip ice cream sandwiches whereas strolling over, beforehand bought by one other one in all my housemates. I often hate mint-flavored candy treats, however the coldness of the ice cream nearly stifles the flavour so it’s not too dangerous.
11:23 p.m. Consuming a chilly beer felt like a good move once we first obtained to the occasion. However, inside minutes, it’s already gotten heat and began tasting like what it truly is: gross.
Monday whole: $22.56
Tuesday
8:52 a.m. My distant internship begins right now so I’m getting breakfast with my boyfriend earlier than I’ve to spend 5 hours scrolling by way of TikTok at my desk and checking Groups notifications every now and then. One of many perks of being an orientation chief at my faculty is that we get a number of complimentary meal swipes, so we’re on the closest eating corridor to my home. I’ve a plate of scrambled eggs (with a heavy serving of sizzling sauce), dwelling fries, and probably the most scrumptious veggie sausage (complimentary, however $9.25 usually). These veggie sausages are the one eating corridor meals I ever discover myself craving, primarily as a result of they style nothing like precise sausages. There’s one thing so synthetic about their taste—not a touch of greens in any respect—and so they’re at all times cooked so dry it’s nearly a enjoyable problem attempting to chunk into the patties.
