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Wed. June 30, 1999
"No clean clothes for YOU!"
The feeling I got today when basically denied a simple function of modern life. As I get ready for the observing run trip out to Kitt Peak, AZ I decided to run errands and prepare myself today. One task: to clean my clothes in a laundry facility. Since Converse Hall (the one I'm in) is being rennovated, our laundry room is torn all to heck. Last week I had to wade through a sea of high school GHP students to Langdale Hall to do clean my items. Following the idea that there couldn't possibily any reason I couldn't use that very same facility, I walked toward the dorm. Everything was going well, not too many clothes to wash, the high school kids weren't around, and the sky was almost trying to be clear! I entered the building and was greeted by a sign that told me the clothes washing room was closed and that I was to try Georgia Hall. Welllll, no problem. I had to find my way to that dorm seeing how I'm not really a student here. As the crowds of recently released high schoolers ebbed and flowed back into their abodes, I asked the person at Georgia's front desk to direct me to the laundry room. He pointed in a direction but added, "That's a girls wing though. You can't go in there."
Not usually a angry person, I wandered back to my dorm with a wad of dirty clothes under my arm rationalizing that I could just wash my clothes first thing up on Kitt Peak. I suppose I'm lucky that I 1) tried all this when it was still daylight and 2) have enough clothes to last me for a few more days. I just have one question for anyone with any power out there: IS THIS ANY WAY TO RUN A UNIVERSITY?
Please stay tuned to my website when I'm in AZ. Although the first few days could be pretty barren here seeing how I'll be in a Buick station wagon on the road heading toward the land next door to the land of the setting Sun. Rest assured that I'll do my best (amidst a busy observing schedule) to keep everyone up to date on my life. Thanks and be safe out there!
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