i hate our laundry facilities. ok not HATE but dislike. first of all, the fact that we have separate laundry facilities, and not a washer and dryer in our own house annoys me. it annoys me even more because the washers and dryers are above one another, not side by side, which means they would fit in any one of our 3 storage rooms. the washer is so small you have to do 500 loads, but then the dryer is huge so you can dry all 500 loads in one dryer. how does that make sense?

secondly. the washers are front loading washers, not top loading washers. well my first 2 loads i did completely wrong, because i’ve never used a front load washer before. how was i supposed to know you’re supposed to put the detergent in this little pull out tray on the side. the pull out tray looked like the lint trap for the dryer. so first 2 loads i put the detergent right into the washers. i don’t really think this was a problem, but how should i know. my 3rd load i did the correct way. there is also a sign on the washer that says “to avoid over sudsing use only 1/4th cup of detergent not a full cup”….well that’s spectacular except for the fact that if you get one of those huge industrial size detergents you have a bigger cup than if you get what i have, one of the tiny little bottles of detergent. so exactly how much am i supposed to use. i don’t think i used enough since there were NO suds at all. then later this kid came in and put in 4 loads, TOTALLY oversudsed all 4 loads. the entire washer was full of suds. i was like, yeah, no way are all those suds gonna rinse out of your clothes in 1 rinse cycle.

so besides all that, the fact that there is only 7 washers and dryers really is a problem. i went at 1pm on a tuesday to do laundry…lucky for me i was able to snag 2 washers, so i only had to sit there for 3 hours instead of six. there’s approximately 180 people in the townhouses…and 7 washers?!?!?!? i was under the impression that at least half of the common building would be for laundry, but instead we get a tiny little room that has 7 machines in it. it’s absurd.

the only good thing really, is that it’s free. but all of campus laundry is free this year 😛

but anyway. i was hoping a certain other townhouse resident would happen to come in and do laundry. i had this whole plan to ask her what she is doing after graduation since she was supposed to go to medschool, and to tell her i was moving to Austria. just to see what her reaction would be. and speaking of the Austria situation, my dad said the company confirmed that they got his resume, so even though him getting the job is a long shot, it’s still a possibility. he at least really submitted the resume (i didn’t actually think he would) so all my religious friends should pray my dad gets it so that i can spend 3 years bumming around europe getting cultured (and avoiding having to really enter the “real world” in may for another 3 years without going to grad school haha).

i also realized that i spent all this time the other day, sunday and monday reading the WRONG political science chapter. great so i read the correct one while doing laundry, and now have to read the part i’m supposed to read for this week later. BLAH. it’s kinda funny, because my textbook is from 2001 yet it’s outdated. i read a part on terrorism and how the US has pretty much been devoid of terrorist activities on home soil…that usually attacks against the US were on foreign soil…and yeah, how wrong is that LOL. that whole chapter needs to be rewritten.

a few people have been talking to me recently about interesting/favourite/weird words…so while doing laundry i thought of a few. first of all, more words need to use latter alphabet letters like V and Z…end of story. that’s why russian (at least russian translated into english) is so cool…lots of Vs and Zs…and since I think that Nikita Khrushchev is the coolest name ever i figured i should learn to spell it correctly. so there you go hah. and Vladimir is also an extremely radass name, but doesn’t really fit unless you’re actually some sort of slavic. i can’t remember any of the cool words i had thought of, other than “ultra”…i adore that word, i don’t use it enough in everyday lanuage. and “pseudo”….love that. i use that more than “ultra”…pseudo reminds me of Phil Collins “Sususudio” rofl @ all the phil collins references lately hahaha.