This probably didn’t make it to the US news, but it’s certainly big news down here, there is currently a nation wide peanut butter shortage in New Zealand. That’s right, for lunch I am having to stretch my mind to find an alternative to PB&J because 2/3 the letters are sold out across the country. Apparently what happened was the factory of the largest manufacturer of peanut butter in NZ, which happens to be based in China caught fire or something along those lines, so all the peanut butter shipments, and I think peanut shipments as well have stopped. It’s been a little over a week now since we’ve had peanut butter here at the dorm. I guess it’s strange how peanut butter ss just one of those foods you never really realize how much you enjoy it until it’s not there.
In addition I had really traumatic moment in my physics class today when the pen I’ve been using to write all my notes with for the past year ran out of ink in the middle of an equation. I went to the bookstore right after class to buy a replacement ink tube, but the only one that looked like it might have been a candidate for the replacement didn’t actually fit, so the pen is out of commission perhaps for good. It is worth noting that that is the first time I’ve ever had a pen run out of ink on me, I always thought the replacement tubes were a sort of gimmick that you hope people buy thinking they’ll need them when they end up just losing the pen first anyway. I guess now I’m going to have to bust the budget and get myself another pen worth holding onto for a long period of time.