I am reading Pride and Prejudice. I’m sure I’m missing much of the context due to the language difference, but so far it seems like a bunch of overly dramatic girls and very dense men. I have not discovered Mr. Darcy’s charm thus far.
Today’s Exploit:
I used to live in a dorm. The rooms are small and you have to share. Also, communal bathrooms are gross, no matter how often they are cleaned. And mostly the whole floor knows exactly what you are doing at any given moment, and can hear all your conversations in HD.
This week I am living in a dorm room again. Except it’s a bunch of nasty guys on my floor, and the walls are made of 2.3 sheets of paper instead of .273 layers of brick.
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| Through that wall is the door, people like to stand there and shout as loud as possible. |
The pros of paper:
-It doesn’t hurt when you fling your arm up to use as a pillow. No more scraped knuckles.
-It’s easier to decorate with cork-board “pictures”. A picture and a place to pin your papers, all in one pretty frame.
-If you trip and fall, you’ll fall through the wall and the debris will cushion your landing, rather than bashing your head on some bricks.
The cons of paper:
-If you fling your arm up, particularly roughly, to use as a pillow you will punch through the wall.
-The cork-board picture might fall down due to insubstantial support from the wall.
-If someone whispers on the other side of the building it will sound like they’re standing on your head and screaming as loud as they can in your ear.
Also, I lived by the main door for 2 weeks. That was pure torture. Everyone is quiet at night. No one is quiet during the day. And they turn the heat to “blistering” and my room is the first on the overflow list. Then, if I open my window to cool down a teensy bit, someone will stand under it and smoke cigarettes the whole time.
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| My new room is larger, it has shelves and drawers, my own sink and a connecting bathroom. And the only noises are from generators. |
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