So, after predicting to Binkle that my assignment may be finished before midnight, it turned out it actually took me until 5:40 in the AM, which did not overly concern me because I feel that I’ve done an outstanding job (but who knows for sure) and, I thought, it also meant I would be able to stop into Mudies for some breakfast before I handed in my assignment.

Unfortunately, Ramadan ended on October 23rd, and with it went Mudies early breakfast hours.

No big deal, I thought. Tim Hortons will probably have fresh stuff.

So, I go there. Grab a hot chocolate, blueberry muffin and an everything bagel with cream cheese. Just the pick me up I needed.

I go into MC. Up the stairs to the fourth floor and walk casually to the Tutorial Centre. I enter the tutorial centre room, because I need to staple my assignment (and I’d run out of staples at home).

I check out the staplers, and to my disappointment, I find out that they are no longer allowed to be used. They are broken, replacements have been ordered, and - until they arrive - we’re instructed to go to MC3038.

Two things unsettle me: 1) How is it that a university can not have staplers sitting in a warehouse somewhere, packed in with other office supplies ordered en masse to fit the needs of thousands upon thousands of people. Seriously? There was not a single stapler to spare for the Tutorial Centre?

2) MC 3038 will likely be closed at 6:00 in the morning.

I go downstairs to check, and it certainly is. I enter a few rooms, hoping to find a stapler, but the desks don’t even come equipped with drawers, let alone office supplies. I run around in circles looking for an occupied office with a stapler I could borrow.

No luck.

So, I find a lonely cork board displaying posters for some event, and I am forced to remove old, used staples to take home, put into my stapler, staple my assignment, and return to MC.

This sorrowful tale brings me to the current time, 6:45 AM, where I am about to return to MC. I just wanted to rant while the entire ordeal was still fresh in my mind.

There is one plus though.

Breakfast starts at 7:00 AM.

Giddy up!