Mealtimes

You guys know that scene in the first couple minutes of Mean Girls, when Cady (Lindsay Lohan's character) walks into the lunch room on her first day of school only to realize she doesn't really have a place to sit? She looks around the room, seeing nobody she knows and decides it is far too awkward and goes to the bathroom to eat her lunch alone in a stall?

That is how I feel in my dining hall. I have met a few girls from my apartment, and maybe one or two other people I recognize who live elsewhere in the building, but mealtimes go for a few hours and I don't know any of them enough to plan when to eat. Whenever I go down there are always groups filling the tables and chatting up a storm. I suppose I could sit and eat with them, but I tried that yesterday morning and it proved to be awkward. Not to mention, I don't really enjoy strangers watching me eat. Anyways this morning (okay 1pm) I went down I had my first course, this amazing veggie soup and sat all by myself. It was super awkward and so I pulled a Cady and took the rest of my food to go and got out of there as fast as I could. Hopefully I will meet a few people soon, or run into the ones I do know because this eating alone every meal business is kind of lonely and boring.