Power Outage
So power went out in almost of the student neighborhood yesterday at like three. No one knows when we’ll get it back. It’s actually been kind of cool. Last night was the first night ever that I went for a walk on campus and it was actually dark! Also everyone was hanging out on the porches just chatting. It was a completely different vibe than the weekend parties, just very laid back and calm. People had candles lit or torches and the temperature was very nice, so for some reason it reminded me of Halloween.
There is actually one side of a block the at has power. Chris happens to live there so I hung out at his place and charged my computer, reveling in the electricity. Several of the other houses seemed to be doing the same thing. One house had a TV out on the porch and this large group of guys were watching some game. It reminded me of those pictures from Africa or other poor countries where a village has only one TV and everyone watches it. When I was walking home from Chris’s place at like 2 in the morning there was this one house that I swear was mocking the rest of us for our lack of power. The people there had put up Christmas lights in there yard! It was as if they were saying “Haha sucks to be you! Not only do we HAVE power but we can use it for all sorts of unnecessary things! The rest of you have to eat room temperature food and worry about the milk going bad!”
Anyway it’s been pretty cool as much as it sucks not to have a working refrigerator. Actually I think everyone in the house is more bothered by the lack of computer charging abilities than anything else, which just goes to show where our priorities are.
There is actually one side of a block the at has power. Chris happens to live there so I hung out at his place and charged my computer, reveling in the electricity. Several of the other houses seemed to be doing the same thing. One house had a TV out on the porch and this large group of guys were watching some game. It reminded me of those pictures from Africa or other poor countries where a village has only one TV and everyone watches it. When I was walking home from Chris’s place at like 2 in the morning there was this one house that I swear was mocking the rest of us for our lack of power. The people there had put up Christmas lights in there yard! It was as if they were saying “Haha sucks to be you! Not only do we HAVE power but we can use it for all sorts of unnecessary things! The rest of you have to eat room temperature food and worry about the milk going bad!”
Anyway it’s been pretty cool as much as it sucks not to have a working refrigerator. Actually I think everyone in the house is more bothered by the lack of computer charging abilities than anything else, which just goes to show where our priorities are.