i'm going to blame it on bureaucracy.
but, the world works out with the help of friends.


back home, with five voracious mouths to feed, our cupboards were always stockpiled with jumbo-sized foodstuffs.
when we bought spaghetti, it tended to be enough spaghetti to feed a small army - namely, our household. so i'm somewhat unfamilliar with the amount of spaghetti a relatively small box will produce.

now, granted, i suppose i could have read the directions to determine how many servings were supposed to be derived from this relatively small box.
i did not, however, do that.

it turns out that one relatively small box makes spaghetti enough to quite literally fill a meduim-sized pot, and thence to quite overwhelmingly pile atop two suddenly far-too-small plates.
it turns out also that two people, when faced with the challenge of such laden dishes, will, in fact, rise to the occasion and eat a frankly astounding amount of spaghetti.
and, when they fail two-thirds of the way through, a trusty roommate may occasionally come to the rescue and do her share, so that the entirety of that relatively small box is consumed.

that, and a pint of ben and jerry's.