The Lex Gat Blog is BACK... Overpriced Panda Express for Lunch

Well I had one hell of a morning. I planned at get up at 9 to catch an event on a game I play but managed to miss that because I woke and fell back to sleep twice and you know what that means...! Lucid dreams. Today's lucid dream is brought to you by Death. I literally had a dream where I was rooming with an old high school friend in this fancy room in some third world shithole, complete with four poster beds when I come across the hostel's owners removing dead bodies of elders from the loft rooms.

And then I was on foot, exploring the city hitting the small tucked away cinema in an alley and a long stretch of road that lead to a foreign University (come to think of it, it was set up exactly like my University except this had to have taken place in some south Asian city or Middle Eastern city. There were dusty neon lights everywhere. I was watching American Sniper the night before so I may have drawn some influence from there.

Anyway, I finally drag myself out of bed and head to school. Can you believe I biked in 80+ degree weather to get to a barely air-conditioned lecture hall only for the professor to dismiss the class a minute in because he wasn't feeling well? I dropped my breakfast too. I heard it crinkle under my wheels and thought I might've run over a styrofoam cup or something but when I parked and reached into my pockets for it, it was gone.

Hungry, I settled for the only place that could fill me up. Panda Express's two side meals was $7.20 and I grimaced. I don't remember the last time I went, but it sure wasn't that. I got angus steak and kung pao chicken with half-rice-half-chow-mein. At the register I was charged $9.20 ($9.19 but I ditched the penny). I asked where the surcharge came from and of course, it had to be the beef. I sighed and obliged. I wasn't going to make them pick out the beef (like the time I had a footlong made only to ditch it because they informed me that they didn't take my subway weekly text coupon. What's up with on campus food courts?).

Well, the beef sure ain't anything special. The veggies were also undercooked. I think I've had better meals cutting up a frozen angus beef patty from Costco and throwing it in a tortilla and calling it a "cheese burger wrap" than I had with this. The Kung Pao chicken was also not up to standard today. The zucchini wasn't marinated well enough and neither was the chicken. I started thinking about how the past 10 weeks of frugal spending on groceries and eating rubbish meals all lead up to this $9 "gourmet" meal so I did my best to make it worth my while. Maybe I'll bring tortillas, muenster cheese and guac + sour cream next time and make it a "Panda Burrito."

That sure as hell is the last time I'm ordering chinese on campus.