Well, I’m finally back, I think. I took a few unplanned weeks off for various reasons, including travel, sickness and general busyness. Luckily, the semester is mostly over, so I should have a bit more time in the future.
#1: Explain to captain that cake would boost morale for space station crew.
#2: Listen to lecture how flour would clog life support.
#3: Offer to temporarily turn off life support in galley.
#4: Wait for him to stop laughing.
#5: Pretend to drop idea.
#6: Wait for everyone to sleep.
#7: Take smuggled ingredients from personal locker.
#8: Preheat oven stolen from lab.
#9: Turn off life support in galley.
#10: Mute alarms.
#11: Take deep breath and start mixing ingredients.
#12: Try in vain to clean up flour floating everywhere.
#13: Start feeling woozy.
#14: Put cake in oven.
#15: Faint.
#16: Get rescued.
#17: Endure reprimand.
#18: Enjoy perfectly spherical suffocake with crew.
The Green-Walled Tower 