Less than Expected
July 13th, 2009
I was really looking forward to my Sunday off. Finally – a room with a powerful, working air conditioner that would allow me to lay in bed all day vegging out on sour patch kids, hot tamales and movies. The electricity first went off around 9:00. It kicked back on twenty minutes later.. false alarm, Thank God. Over the next hour it cut out twice, each time for about 20-30 minutes and by 1:00 it was worn out. I sat in the room for 30 minutes, getting hotter by the second as the sun baked down on my metal haven. Finally there was a knock at the door – Stone’s electricity was out, too – in fact half the LSA was out – and he was ready to escape to the chow hall for the joke of an a/c they provide. We spent about 45 minutes wasting time, hoping the a/c would be on in our rooms by the time we got back. Sure enough, it was. But the poor window unit just couldn’t catch up to the smoldering heat that had made it’s way into my pseudo-home. I spent the rest of the day determined to stay in my room and veg out (I’m stubborn) with a glistening layer of dew covering my skin. The third roommate who has been in the room since May informed me we live in the “ghetto” of Red Bull. If electricity goes out, it’s ours and when everyone else’s kicks on.. ours doesn’t. So Red Bull LSA is less than I expected, but it was better than the tent. Our tent ran me out of there by 1100 on my day off, it’s just that hot. The room was bearable, albeit not comfortable. But I did what I said I would – stayed far away from the office, watched movies and enjoyed sour patch kids. Ahh.
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