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jadan
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Country: United States
State: Connecticut
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Member Since:
10/10/2003
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| I have changed my home. Please go to my new blog at http://arjedre.blogspot.com/ See you there.
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| Well, here I am after another disappearance. It's an interesting pattern. I get a little busy and think, "No time to blog." I keep reminding myself that I will, but you know how it is once you've already put a task off. (You keep forgetting to do the laundry, and the pile keeps growing, guaranteeing that you'll be stuck at the laundromat for hours.) Then I finally do give myself a kick in the ass and blog, at which point I realize, "Oh, that wasn't so bad." Duh.
I am now in Chicago. Living here all summer with my grandpa while I take an intensive Greek class at U Chicago. It's really nice to be able to keep my grandpa company (and get free rent, food, and housekeeping!) but I'm starting to wonder what I was thinking with this commute. My family lives in the 'burbs north of the city, and the U is on the south side of the city. Probably only about 30 highway miles. Sounds fine, right? Check this: I leave home at 7:10, and bike to the station to catch the 7:36 train into downtown. I arrive downtown at 8:18 and begin my (roughly) 40-minute bike ride to school. Because this is faster than taking the bus! Seven hours of school then I reverse the whole thing to make it home again. I'm trying to convince myself that the commute is a good use of time - essentially 84 minutes of study time (on train) and 2 hours of cycling (good workout) time per day. It's certainly better than sitting in the car on the highway stuck in traffic with everyone else in the frickin city.
Class starts on Monday. Five days a week. Seven hours a day. Right.
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| I don't often get pissed off about things - but inconsiderate people piss me off.
Today, that's my neighbor. First, has a habit of doing a load of laundry every morning. My theory is that he only has one set of clothes. OK, I could respect this and not do laundry until I know he's done his load, but I don't think he has any right to the washer every morning. And I think it's really wasteful to run the washer every morning in order to wash a really small load. (Laundry is included in our rent.) Not to mention that the washer is right under my kitchen, and it's kind of annoying to hear it washing and spinning at 7 or 8am on the weekends.
This morning I decided to do my laundry since I have the morning off and have been needing to do it for a couple days. I do laundry every 12-14 days, and wash about 3 loads in a row. This morning I put a load in at 8am, and I left the laundry bag with the second load sitting right by the washer, as though to say, "Hey, this is how much laundry I have to do." I returned upstairs to have my coffee, tidy my room, etc. After a while I thought, "Wow, it really seems like the washer has been running a long time." I opened the door to the basement and was momentarily confused when I heard the dryer as well. ARGH! He had put all my laundry in the dryer and put his couple items in the washer.
**Call me crazy, but I thought there were a few unspoken laundry rules.**
- There's a grace period of about 20 mins from the time the washer or dryer stops until anyone has a right to move your stuff. He could only have waited 5 mins - I didn't even hear the washer stop.
- You don't shove all someone's clothes in the dryer on high heat - unless you want to replace everything you shrink or otherwise ruin. The appropriate action (when rule 1 is in play) is actually to shake out the wet clothes and leave them draped over the laundry basket so the launderer can deal with them appropriately.
- You don't interrupt someone's laundry series- if there's another load waiting to go in, you don't get to jump in between loads, unless the grace period has been grossly violated, exceeded by at least 25 mins.
Am I overreacting? I don't think so - he was extremely inconsiderate by violating the first and second rules. Maybe I was a little inconsiderate by doing my laundry at a time I know he habitually does his. But his habitual laundry schedule is inconsiderate in itself. So he started it.
Besides, I get bonus points for refraining from adding a bottle of bleach to his load in the washer.
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| Not to whine about it...
But I'm sick. I have a cold, again! I just had a serious 2-weeker in the beginning of April, and I am not happy about having another. Sunday night I hardly got any good sleep because I kept waking up with searing throat pain. I had to carefully balance a lozenge in my mouth to get back to sleep. Today feels a little better, but I seem to have a sticky yellow substance oozing out of my facial orifices. I have a feeling something in Boston triggered it.
Me, the guy and the kid spent the weekend in Boston for karate events. It was the selection camp for the US team for the Shoto Cup. This is the big international Shotokan karate tournament - basically it's an opportunity for Japan to trounce our sorry American asses every other year. They had a bunch of big time senseis in town, so Bill went to both of the training sessions. Since I couldn't afford the $50 classes (!!!) I spent my time with the kid. And we got to see the selection tournament, which, frankly, I thought could have been a lot more exciting and impressive. My completely unsupported theory has to do with lots of people self-selecting themselves out because of travel expenses, time commitments, and thoughts that they're not good enough. The really amazing people were sitting at home counting the thousands of dollars they save by not going to Boston for trials and the tournament in Australia.
Other than that, life at the moment consists of grading Philosophy of Law exams. But one day soon I will finish that and my life will be my own again.
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| It's officially Spring
I've thrown open the windows in my bedroom and the kitchen. Pumpkin has installed himself on the window sill.
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