The Great Change: Turning Cathy into a Lawyer

At lunchtime yesterday I tried to buy a soda at the student union to go with my sushi, but none of the fountains worked. Just a stream of syrup would pour out, lacking the carbonated water necessary to turn it into soda. I tried fountain after fountain. None dispensed correctly, not for any flavor. Oh well, I'll just buy a soda from a vending machine in the law tower, I decided, apparently forgetting the lesson from the day before when my corporations professor had failed to obtain one from the recalcitrant (and apparently empty) machine. There is another machine next to it that dispenses more nutritious drinks, and I can see through its clear plexiglass that it's full of such product, but alas it has been refusing to take money. Fine, whatever, I'll just go out into the hall for a drink of water.

Figures the fountain doesn't work.

Thank goodness for the Westlaw rep who was giving out free apple juice this morning in the lobby or else I'd have been really thirsty, so totally stymied in my quest for potable liquid anywhere on campus.

Meanwhile, yesterday's lunch prompts me to make a note to stop buying the sushi at the student union. It's consistently crunchy. Given that it's a salmon and avocado roll, such a texture is not really appropriate. How hard would it be for them to wait for the avocado to ripen before using it? Did they really not notice how hard it was when they cut it up? I hope this oversight is only because they are paying such particular attention to the respective quality of the fish.

And finally, in closing I will share another random observation gleaned from my lunchtime adventures: pickled ginger and Wise CheezDoodle "cheese" work together surprisingly well on the palate.