@Totalanimefan: Sometimes I meal plan and set up a whole thing like: roast chicken + veggies one night ---> becomes chicken tacos the next --> chicken soup the following night. Sometimes I pick a couple recipes from my books (more of a reminder of options at this point than following the actual recipes). But lately, I've just been going to the store and seeing what's available and kind of putting the meals together in my head while I'm shopping. There's always an element to this, of course, to take advantage of sales or what's available or not, but with the shortages due to covid lockdowns, and my own increased laziness due to the lockdowns, I'm doing more of this. Fortunately, I have enough experience, I guess, to be able to do this fairly easily at this point. I think it also helps that I keep an ongoing list of items that I run out of, so instead of worrying about "oh, I need dishsoap" I can do the mental gyrations of "oh, the broccoli looks really good and the steak strips are on sale: beef & brocolli!"

@Wildfire: everyone lel xD

@Amber Lynne: lel looks like i found the source of all da goodies xD

@MoodyB: it works, it's really pretty and looks nice!
i never know what to do in my signature lol

@Totalanimefan: No, haha. I'm a live-on professional staff member for the university. I live in an apartment built into a hall so that I can be part of the 24/7 on-call response & do support programming for the students, and my 9-5 part of the job includes doing roommate mediation, supporting students when we get reports of mental health, family, personal, etc. concerns, and doing some campus community work with the Counseling Center, as well as other day-to-day tasks.

Basically, I'm like a house mom, or like an RA but already graduated.

@Totalanimefan: pretty busy lol. i came into this role at the tail end of july! i trained for about two weeks and then we brought the student staff in to train for a few days (heavily shortened because of COVID) and move students in.
we move the majority of them back out next weekend, with about 80 (out of 1800) staying until early december to complete finals while on campus, mostly because either they're international students and due to COVID or other restrictions can't go home, or can go they can go home, but not until after online finals are over because of technology access.
i enjoy working with college students a lot, though i'm looking forward to when i can stop being part of an on call rotation lol.