Dorm Pictures

I've been really crotchety lately since the housing people insist on screaming at one another down this echo-friendly hall. This morning, they were discussing whether or not there was someone living in my room, which ended with one of them actually trying to push my door open to check. Thank god I lock.

Ooh, pictures. Look how friendly my hall is! All sun and flowers! Suns, and flowers, and reverberations. My door is the one immediately to the right with the bulletin board. The bathroom is down the hall to the left.






The basement floor isn't as cheerful. It's actually kind of scary.










Do you know what makes it scarier? The fact that they have a room exclusively dedicated to SORORITY INITIATION. Yikes. Who knows what goes on in there...








The construction workers leave their stuff everywhere.








Starting tomorrow, I'm going to start to get busier but these last three days have been slow goings. I've been signing up for all the free seminars I can get my hands on, so I have Excel overview tomorrow as well as four hours of nothing but reading while I work the Special Olympics check-in. On Friday I took Dave's morning shift (yay, no cleaning) and I'll be working the 6:00 to close on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. I need to check more books out of the library.

Oh, so I had a little bit of an escapade yesterday. I had noticed a few days earlier that Housing had taken all of the mattresses out of the room and stacked them up in the Commons area. I asked David (the other CA in the building set) what was going on, and he told me that every few years they get rid of all the old mattresses in case they have bugs or something. Good to know. I figured, hey! What an opportunity! I only have that one dorm bed in my room and lord knows it's tiny. Why not take one of the discarded mattresses and use it whenever I have someone staying over? Emrys and I hoisted one of them all the way back to my room and now it's hanging out behind my bed, making it almost into a couch. Smart plan, right? Sharing a twin XL dorm bed isn't the most comfortable of experiences.

Anyway, I heard people outside yesterday morning and when I went to brush my teeth, I noticed that they had stacked the mattresses two at a time outside each dorm room. I went, gah! Oh no! They weren't throwing them away at all! They were just cleaning the beds or something! Now they're going to be one short and they'll be searching for it! I fretted over that for awhile wondering what to do, and I figured the best possible course of action would be to go to lunch.

Here's what I saw when I came back. Clearly they were not returning them to the rooms. Excellent. I really wanted to keep that mattress.





Another view of the stacks. Maybe this time they'll spring (aha!) for something a little prettier.