The co-op has a big commercial refrigerator in the dining room. It has trouble keeping cool because people are constantly wandering into the dining room and opening and closing it. The compressor runs like crazy, we get condensation flooding the floor, and the inside temp sometimes hits 50F ( Read more... )

I've agonized before over whether I should own a car. When I was thinking about it last I was in a period of heavy commuting, but lately I've been driving quite rarely. It's basically only on the weekends, when I want to go out to Pinckney for classes or outdoorsy stuff ( Read more... )

Ran into Megan today in the psych atrium. Her rat research is going well (evidently they get cranky and start sleeping in when they hit puberty too). I told her I'm almost certainly moving back into the co-ops, into the new grad student house. This is the third attempt the ICC is making to recolonize the old Joint House (so named because there are ( Read more... )