A letter home from study abroad
well, once again, it's been several days since i last wrote....at this point, it's not laziness
(really!) but lack of content. Life here is pretty much
routine....hmmm...what happened today that was interesting....oh, yeah...I
got home from class today at about 2:30 to discover that I must not have
turned the faucet all the way off when I left for class this morning...it
seems as if the shower was dripping just a tiny bit...ordinarily, this
wouldn't be such a problem...but, our showerhead is one of those hand-held
jobs that I just happened lie down above the faucet this morning...the exact
direction that I lay it in apparently put the dripping part of the shower
head over the floor....where I was surprised to see about 2 inches of water
when I got home this afternoon.
Well, I quickly discovered that the mop wouldn't do much good...so I
looked around for other things to soak water up with...no dice. "If I only
had a wet-vac" I thought... (A wet-vac is a vacuum cleaner for sucking up
water) Well, I didn't, but I had something almost as good....a 2 liter coke
bottle. By punching a few holes in the bottom of the bottle and sucking
through the top, I was able to generate enough of a vacuum to fill the bottle
with water, which i then dumped in the sink...I'm glad nobody walked into the
room while I was cleaning...I must have looked like a complete fool. but
hey, it worked....ten minutes and about 8 bottles of water later (no, I don't
need one of you to compute the volume of water in a bottle and tell me how
big my bathroom is.) the floor was only damp...and I was only a bit
woozy....but hey, it worked. score one for desperation...and the ceiling
under me didn't even give way (I hope) Tonight has been kinda calm....I've
got a killer test on "Lady with a dog" (A Chekov) tomorrow...apparently the
idea is that she'll give us a sheet of paper with a bunch of sentences from
the story with about 50 missing words...we've got to fill in the exact words
from the story. (Don't try this at home, Wesleyan profs.) Several of my
friends who have already taken the test tell me not to worry...there's no way
anybody could pass.
As some of you know, I've been toying with the idea of registering
the internet domain kanga.ru (so my email address could be (for example)
hoppy@kanga.ru) It just occurred to me last night that gu.ru isn't taken.
(If this is all gibberish to you, mom and dad, just ignore it...it means
something to computer geeks)
So, I'm conducting an informal vote....
Should I register:
kanga.ru (and have machine names like dont.feed.the.kanga.ru)
OR
gu.ru (and have machine names like dont.feed.the.unix.gu.ru)