I have to say, I think one of the most marvelous advances int he modern world is running water.
I used to think it was a number of other things: electricity, internet, telephones, tv, radio, gas stoves....etc...but I've learned; not so!!
My roommates and I had the privilege, recently, to experience a lack of running water in our apartment. Its not that it was unbearable, it was more disgustingly inconveniencing.
Around 2 pm yesterday, I came back from class and made myself a really messy avo-swiss-prociutto and rye sammich, ate it up and then went to the bathroom and pumped my hand full of soap. And then I realised no water came out. So i went to the kitchen, where still no water came out. Gross right? avo and soap gloppy on my hand.
So I wiped my hand on my poor towel and called up the h20 company- turns out, one of my roommates had forgotten to connect the h20. So, I connected it, and asked them if they could come out today and turn it back on.
No, the customer rep said, we dont do same day start ups. The earliest we could get out to you is tomorrow morning, sometime from 8am-11am.
WHICH SUCKED, because I had an interview the next day that I sort of wanted to look clean for. And I already was kinda dirty from not showering the previous night because of other stuff that came up. So, for a night we had to live without water.
That night, I ended up making 2 or 3 trips to the armory next door to pee- the very last trip I made was with Liz; we ended up trekking to the library (open 24 hours) armed with towels, toothpaste+toothbrushes, etc to get ready before going to bed. There were actually people that we bumped into in the bathroom and honestly, I'm really surprised they didnt say anything, because we looked ridiculous.
And then this morning, in order to make sure that I was clean for my interview after classes- 9 to 2 interview at 3- Liz and I woke up at 7am to sneak into one of the neighboring dorms to steal the use of their showers. We ended up getting in? But not being able to get through into the halls becasue no one was awake at the ungodly hour of 7 to swipe us through. ultimate fail.
So we ended up washing our hair in the sinks downstairs in the common areas.
As of 9:20 am this morning though, our h20 is back and I LOVE YOU PLEASE NEVER LEAVE ME ALONE.
FIN.
PS: my interview went well =]