My Day of Adventure

I woke up at eight this morning and took a shower, then went to breakfast with Ryan. We went back to the suite and hung out with Christine and Erica until 10:30 when everyone except me had to start heading to class. I'm supposed to have chem labs on Tuesday mornings at eight, but they don't start for two weeks, so I was free all day. As you can see above, I took advantage of this wonderful opportunity to do laundry. Let me just start by saying that high efficiency washing machines are stupid. Yes, they use less energy per cycle, but you need to run them through DOUBLE the cycles you would have to otherwise. There's so much less water to dilute any dye that leaches from fabrics that you have to wash VERY similar colors. No mishaps yet, but they're coming. While I was waiting three hours for my laundry to be done, I did my chem and EAS lab homework.. Hopefully I'm enough ahead to have a nice weekend.. Sunday night into Labor Day, Animal House is having an all-night movie marathon.

When I got back to the room after doing laundry/homework, Christine gave me my mail. I got a notice card telling me to pick up a package in the dorm office, which I did, and on my way back I found a piano!!! I was so happy, I've been looking for one and whining that the only one I could find was in a locked room for DAYS. So I printed out some sheet music and made my way down there. Five minutes later, I took the picture above.

We had a fire drill. I was irritated. It was a very long fire drill.

But when I got to go back in, I got about an hour of uninterrupted playing in. I might have annoyed a few people, because I was in a rather public lounge and I wasn't playing very well, but I really didn't care. I discovered that I'm still capable of playing "A Thousand Miles." Actually, more than capable. I was able to play parts that I never could pull off. I guess I do have something to thank all of those annoying sonatinas for.. This song used to seem impossible, now it is almost laughable.

It was an interesting day, all in all. I'll probably watch the Doctor tonight, and try to get to bed at a half decent time, because class starts at eight tomorrow.