Back...again? aka My Soupy Universe

Well, it turns out that I'm actually awful at updating my blog, and I'm sure you've all guessed that by now. So, my apologies to anyone out there who actually reads this (what's wrong with you?) - I shall do my best to actually update this with my witty remarks and cynical humor more frequently, as I know you all come here to read about me making fun of various people and things.

Anyway, it turns out that I'm sick, once again. When I woke up today, I felt like I had got hit by a bus carrying a thousand people with strep throat while I slept, so I figured that I wouldn't go to class and instead lay low, watching movies (more like reading two novels for class tomorrow) and eating soup. Now, when sick, most people go for the Campbell's Chicken Noodle soup. It's a classic, after all - nothing makes you feel a little better, or at least remind you of your childhood, quite like chicken noodle soup. Imagine my surprise upon searching the soup aisle of Meijer desperately that they actually had no chicken noodle soup. None. I nearly panicked, as I was feeling crappy that weekend too (can I ever be healthy again?), but fortunately, some sparkly Campbell's labels caught my eye. Being ever attracted to shiny things, it turns out that these particular cans were of the "chicken noodle soup for kids" genre. Ignoring what sort of atrocity it is for little kids to insist on having chicken noodle Os as opposed to the elegant curve of the plain noodle, I stocked up on a few noodle varieties, figuring that it could be beneficial to change up my noodle routine once in a while.As my throat is killing me today, I figured it would be a good call to make some chicken noodle soup. Reaching into my rolling cart o' food, I grabbed the first shiny can that I saw, being "Chicken and Stars." It seemed wholly appropriate, as I am currently supposed to be in an Astronomy lecture, so I popped it in the microwave (oh come on, I took it out of the can first), then sat down to write this blog. As for the soup? This deserves a whole new paragraph.

It seems to be doing a good job making up for my lack of Astronomy, to say the least. I could probably make a few galaxies out of the number of stars there are in my soup. Every spoonful is chock full of stars. It's not like the regular chicken noodle, where you get a few spoonfuls here and there of just plain broth, which would be beneficial right about now. Nope, not this soup! It is positively relentless in its pursuit of giving you noodle-y goodness, going so far as forming little constellation-like clumps to maximize your noodle intake. Good lord, the sheer amount of stars is overwhelming! It's like the entire Milky Way galaxy is contained in my very bowl! There are the millions of noodle stars, the little carrot astroids (okay, what are carrots doing my chicken noodle soup, by the way?), chunks of chicken-planets, and little moons of an indiscernable vegetable - it's beautiful. I can see how little kids can get excited about this soup: it is absolutely thrilling to have a chunk of the universe floating around your yellow, sodium-filled atmosphere/broth, all contained within your Little Mermaid bowl of a universe. The union of space and soup is just plain brilliant.

So what does this mean? It means that you (yes, YOU!) should go out and buy some chicken and stars soup if you're ready to take that step and expand your noodle-y horizon. Who knows...maybe even you can benefit from a little spiral in your soup-y life.