Slump

DONE! With this book that is. I feel better. It got a little weird at the end. I think that's another "Modernist" thing--you only make so much sense anyway and then the last few chapters you really say fuck it, I'm not going explain anything. Not even who's speaking or who they're speaking about...or whether they're speaking at all. The exam for this class isn't until next Tuesday. But I felt like I couldn't concentrate on Film (exam Saturday) until I finished this. So, now I can see if that's true or not.

The offices on campus open again tomorrow. Good news.

Right now I'm sitting in the kitchen because I'm making lemon bars and I don't trust the oven to do what it's supposed to do. The light above the table is constantly blinking. It's like a corny movie where the interrogation room light is swinging distractingly.

I started cleaning today. It was a little unfortunate. I had all my books on my windowsill. My window collects some serious condensation though, so some of the pages got damp and now some of them look like accordions. That's okay though. All that water on the window falls into this crack between the sill and the window though, and when you don't clean that in 3 months it's gross. I didn't want to open my window, but I had to 'cause my little room just had that old damp moldy smell for a bit. Now my candle is making everything smell like soap again.

Oh man. Just had a heart attack. I'm in my room now sitting on my bed and my smoke alarm beeped. And then like three seconds later it beeped again. My alarm and Louise's alarm were bot doing it. They stopped after maybe 20 seconds, but we don't know what happened. She said that maybe it was because she just took a shower and the detectors are right outside the bathrooms so maybe the steam set it off. They aren't set off by smoke apparently. It's heat that'll get you. That's weird to me. I feel like it would take a little while for something to burn long enough to get hot enough to set it off.

Tomorrow I have four things to complain about: heater, bathroom light, kitchen light, fridge. I don't know about the fridge though. I might let Aoife take that one.