The Sharpay Refectory Challenge 8: The Musical

Lunch Crowd

Now that it is lunch time, the Ratty has achieved the level of full that is usual for the "primary cafeteria of Brown University." The Brown Band corner has now grown to include 5 tables with (at this exact moment) 21 Bandies. Also Dusky in a table-slip holder. The card game on one end is still continuing, while the other end is occupied by Sarah, Peter, and Gabe playing a board game called "Power Grid." Productivity Band is somewhere in the middle around me. Although my productivity is fairly low compared to Jared doing his poetry homework and Mark reading a book (Emergency, "which is about all these emergency care providers" - Mark).

Not the most exciting of blog posts, I just mainly wanted to record the number of tables we have taken.

Lunch Time

It's lunch time! The menu is bleak, but at least there's pizza. The tots debate has finally died down. Greer is doing some pretty coloring. Charlie is reading a book. Gabe, Peter, and Sarah are playing some board game (I'm too far away to tell what it is). A small tribe of children just mobbed the ice cream machine. Where did they come from? Free them.

With the lunch rush, a new flock of bandies have arrived:

Isabela, with the last plate of tater tots. "Mwuahahahaha" - Isabela

Shane! Whats in the cup? The world may never know.

Zach, pondering whether or not tater tots are fries.

Jared! "You guys have a blog?" - Jared

The meme queen herself, Sammy, has arrived.

Francesca and Carol! The other 2/3 of the Illumisquadi

Mark, photo creds @Francesca.

I haven't had my Matt Finn yet, muff.

After a 15 hour workout, Kellan has arrived.

And finally, a brief summary of lunch:

No Friends

Why is Dana all alone? No friends, No friends.

Why is Dana all alone, because she has no friends, no friends!

But actually, she just needed to charge her laptop.

They'll Tell the Story of Tonight

I hope you're ready for this
Let me know if you want lyrics.

Everything is Blue in the Future

SpongeBob: Well, he's not here. I'll bet that eager-beaver's already down at Jellyfish Fields.

Squidward: A-ha! They're finally gone! [tries to open freezer but it's locked from the inside!] What the...? Locked?! Oh no! Oh, well, someone will realize I'm gone and come looking for me. I'll be out of here in no time.

After the long slumber that was winter break, Brown students awoke to something magical: a renovated Ratty! The walls are blue, the pizza is actually good, there are two salad lines, and literally everything has been moved around. We can barely believe our eyes.

The changes are certainly impressive, although the necessity of them are debatable. While those of us here today can bask in the glory of these renovations, we realize that our graduated and abroad friends might wish to see the changes, so here is a photo summary:

The drink machines have been slightly relocated, and take on a more linear formation compared to the previous jutting-out-of-the-wall.

A brand new pizza station, complete with 3 fancy new pizza ovens. Sometimes they serve garlic knots! This is located near the back cave, where the drink station used to be.

The salad bar has been shifted to the left, where the Trash Zone™ used to be. Also there are two identical salad bars for improved speed.

A fancy dessert station, where the condiments used to be! The ice cream has finally achieved the accessibility it deserves.

"Bougie Water Corner" - Hayley

Not pictured: The Trash Zone™ has moved to the South West corner of the ratty.

A political hot potato…

When Hayley started her frierarchy, many thought that the only debate would be over Hayley's (alleged) terrible taste in fries. However, a controversy has quickly developed centered around whether or not tater tots are fries, with Hayley putting them at #2 in the frierarchy not just as a bold statement on the essential inferiority of most fry types but as a genuine assertion of tater tots' status as a kind of fry. A twitter poll is ongoing, and appalled band parents are phoning in their dismay. But more on that later.

As a senior, I have to write blog posts, but I also don't have much to contribute. The easiest way to distinguish between me and Kyle today is volume of social media output (I actually took Kyle's seat on a Skype call and no one noticed for some time, but that's what you get for trusting your lying eyes). The best part of this challenge is definitely infinite free beverages, particularly Orange Guava Passionfruit, because who would ever buy that? Kyle has a bowl of tater tots right next to Gaby with her bowl of pomegranate seeds, but it's probably too late for Kyle anyway.

Update: Timm has voted yes on the twitter poll, and Greer came back with "It's such an earth-shattering moment when you realize your mother can be wrong." Truly, tensions are high.