Today, I learned how many things I take for granted.
This week, they posted a sign in our apartment that said the whole University would be turning the power off from 7am-3pm today, Sunday. I don't know if this was part of a monk exercise, maintenance work, or just a sick joke to watch all the exchange students run around like crazy.
Anyways, we slept in until 11 today, so things should've been half way over. The AC was off, but it was still comfortable. I was extremely thirsty but too scared to open the fridge to get my water because we have food in there. So I didn't. I went to the bathroom and learned, for whatever reason, that the toilet's flusher runs on electricity. Gross. I went to use the sink and learned that it too is also an electric sink in one way or another. Sanitary. I ate a breakfast bar and remembered how Abby said she would make us her "cream cheese scrambled eggs" today, but she politely reminded me that we also needed electricity to make those. Perfect. I'm thankful for electricity.
So we packed up our tooth brushes and face wash and walked to Denny's to get a taste of home when we needed it the most. I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth and when a lady came out of her stall, she was laughing while washing her hands. I've decided not to judge people doing things like that from now on, because you never know why the heck they're doing their crazy things. Plus, there has to be a good reason for it, because otherwise they wouldn't be doing things just to do them. Once that was over, I ordered this skillet breakfast meal with caramel and banana french toast, bacon and eggs. I swear I have a much bigger appetite here, because at home I never finish my meals, especially not ones that big, but I finished that whole thing.
I'm thankful for my mom who does my laundry and that every house I've moved into has had it's own washer and dryer. I officially hate laundromats and how they stick their soapy little hands in your pockets. I'm also glad we ignored our laundry for the past 2 weeks and decided to wait to do it today, when the power was out. We had to go down 5 flights of stairs with laundry and lug it down the street to the laundromat, pay $2.25 a load and $.25 for every 4 minutes of drying time. Ridiculous. So now, I'm sitting in the Subway across the street waiting for my dry time to be up so we can lug everything back home.
The power better be on. I want to take the elevator up to my 5th floor suite, flush my toilet, open my fridge, and break something.
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