Journal Monica's Journal: biscuits and Zelda 2
by the way, on the last entry, todd wrote about the same event in a better entry. go read that.
so this morning started when todd suggested that we make our own breakfast of biscuits. we'd been making our own dinners every friday night, and had acquired some ingredients like flour and tools like baking sheets, and even some Jiffy baking mix for our pizza crust last friday. and moreover, todd has enjoyed cooking. so his idea was to go to the campus center and buy a few little boxes of milk, mix them with the Jiffy, as per the recipe, and eat our biscuits with honey, butter, and jelly we could also get from the cafe for free. so we did and it was yummy. we had invited tony over, too, for the biscuits. i didn't know biscuits were so easy to make. i just want to register my support for Jiffy baking mix, because it makes pizza crust easy with just adding water, and makes biscuits easy for breakfast with just adding milk.
but then, after this wonderful breakfast, one of the boys wondered if that old nintendo they had heard about was still upstairs in the lounge. the lounge to our dorm is two stories tall, with the kitchen and a study space on the bottom, and room for a ping-pong table upstairs. so we went upstairs to check things out. the ping-pong table had been moved out of the way, there were like 8 chairs, and on another table, someone had hooked up a vintage first-edition nintendo machine to a small tv. there were at least 20 old nintendo games scattered about. so after some jiggling the cartridge in the machine, they soon had the orginal Legend of Zelda up and running. this was around 1:30 this afternoon. bear in mind, as they would say later, although Zelda was almost as popular a game as Mario Bros., neither of them had ever played much of the orginal version.
so i sat there for a while, reading Glamour while they took turns playing nintendo. i eventually got bored and went downstairs to take a shower. let us jump ahead to 6:30pm, when i get hungry for dinner. the boys are still upstairs playing Zelda. they've been playing for 5 hours. since they can save the game and leave, i coax them into going for dinner for about an hour. let us jump ahead to 12:30am. i had just finished my dropin tutoring hours, where like all the rest of the weeks, no one came for help, and i did my own homework in the lounge (for pay) while the boys played Zelda upstairs. by this time, they had been playing for 11 hours, with only a break for dinner.
the plan, which is not surprising knowing these guys, was to stay up all night until they beat the game. they're on level 6, and since neither of them played the game when they were little, they don't know how many levels there are. apparently, their studiousness got the better of them, because they decided to call it a day, save the game, and go to sleep tonight. but tomorrow night, they say, they'll stay up until they beat it. tony's moderating on tuesday morning, and of course, as he believes tradition says, the best thing to do the night before moderation is to not sleep.
well, good luck to him, in both the game and moderation. but at least let me have my boyfriend back.
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maybe? eh. i don't mean it in a bad way.