First Day of Year 3!
Well, summer's officially over. Today was my first day of my last year of my undergraduate degree (I would say 'of university', but I intend to go for my masters) and it was pretty easy. I didn't start until noon, and just had a lecture and a screening. The film, though, was basically, as one of the guys sitting near me loudly put it, an hour and a half long screen-saver. There was no dialogue, no semblence of a narrative, and absolutely no linear anything to follow. It was beautifully filmed, and for about 45 minutes it had my attention, but it went on far too long to keep it.
I have a meeting with my dissertation tutor on Thursday, which is my day off, and it is at 10:30 in the morning. Arrrrg. Just my luck. At least it's not at 9, so I suppose I should be glad for that. I had to write up an A4 page with an outline of my topic and a list of the research I'd done over the summer. Now, I know a lot of people that have done next to nothing, and I have done quite a bit, actually, but it still doesn't come close to filling an A4 page. I knew I should have been worried when I was assigned this dissertation tutor. The man strives for perfection and doesn't like anything short of it!
Yesterday, my housemate G jumped in the shower while my other housemate K and I were talking in my room. K says "it sounds like it's raining," and it had rained all weekend, so of course it did. But she goes, "no, it sounds like it's raining inside the house." We bolted downstairs to find that the living room roof was leaking steadily all over the carpet, obviously from the shower upstairs. So back upstairs to tell G to get out of the shower and clattered back downstairs armed with buckets and rubbish bins to catch the water. It was about 9pm at this point, so calls to the landlord went unanswered, but he got in touch with K this afternoon and said it's happened before and the seal around the tub isn't very good. He said he'd come and reseal it for us, but who knows when that will be. He did say we can continue to use the shower, we just have to be careful and not get the wall wet. Um, excuse me, it's a shower, how do you manage to do that? Especially when you have a wonky nozzle that's not tight enough to hold the showerhead up properly so it sprays the wall anytime you let go of it? This must have been the exact same reason the guys that lived here last year had this problem - the showerhead doesn't stay up. It's very awkward to shower when you have to keep a hand on the wall to keep it in position. When the stream's strong enough, the weight (I guess) of the water keeps it up okay, but otherwise it just tips forward. I hope he comes to fix it soon. It's very worrying to have a leak like that in the living room!
I have a meeting with my dissertation tutor on Thursday, which is my day off, and it is at 10:30 in the morning. Arrrrg. Just my luck. At least it's not at 9, so I suppose I should be glad for that. I had to write up an A4 page with an outline of my topic and a list of the research I'd done over the summer. Now, I know a lot of people that have done next to nothing, and I have done quite a bit, actually, but it still doesn't come close to filling an A4 page. I knew I should have been worried when I was assigned this dissertation tutor. The man strives for perfection and doesn't like anything short of it!
Yesterday, my housemate G jumped in the shower while my other housemate K and I were talking in my room. K says "it sounds like it's raining," and it had rained all weekend, so of course it did. But she goes, "no, it sounds like it's raining inside the house." We bolted downstairs to find that the living room roof was leaking steadily all over the carpet, obviously from the shower upstairs. So back upstairs to tell G to get out of the shower and clattered back downstairs armed with buckets and rubbish bins to catch the water. It was about 9pm at this point, so calls to the landlord went unanswered, but he got in touch with K this afternoon and said it's happened before and the seal around the tub isn't very good. He said he'd come and reseal it for us, but who knows when that will be. He did say we can continue to use the shower, we just have to be careful and not get the wall wet. Um, excuse me, it's a shower, how do you manage to do that? Especially when you have a wonky nozzle that's not tight enough to hold the showerhead up properly so it sprays the wall anytime you let go of it? This must have been the exact same reason the guys that lived here last year had this problem - the showerhead doesn't stay up. It's very awkward to shower when you have to keep a hand on the wall to keep it in position. When the stream's strong enough, the weight (I guess) of the water keeps it up okay, but otherwise it just tips forward. I hope he comes to fix it soon. It's very worrying to have a leak like that in the living room!