ammogirl

Well, nothing of excitement to report from the laundry room, except the fact that I had all the washers and dryers to myself so I did FOUR loads of laundry at the same time, which actually is very exciting, but probably only to me. For the rest of the day I worked extremely hard on my term paper, and got it all finished, INCLUDING my very inventive cover page. Now, you will recall my term paper is on the game of Monopoly, right? So I set up the cover page to look like a deed card from the game – specifically, a Park Place deed card – and yes, that IS very clever, thank you! I hope my professor feels the same way that you do, in regards to my wicked creativity.

But, let’s talk some more about the laundry room – because laundry rooms are fun! Now, I have to say that I got extremely lucky in regards to the dorm I was placed in – it’s brand new, and I since I am on the 4^th floor, I have an excellent view. My window faces the Yellow Sea, and I get to watch a gorgeous sunset every night. However, we are not speaking of sunsets; we are speaking of laundry rooms, right? There are 128 people that reside in my dorm, and there are only 10 washers and 10 dryers, and YOU do the math on that one. I usually do my laundry on Friday or Saturday nights, because I’m pretty much guaranteed to get it done then – or early Sunday mornings, before anyone starts waking up. I’ve managed to be lucky thus far, knock on wood. I do get a little squicked, though, by the sharing aspect of it – if I don’t know you, I don’t necessarily like washing my unmentionables in the same place you do, ya know? And yes, I perhaps AM a bit OCD when it comes to germs – my smart friend Jen is vigorously nodding her head on this, I’m quite positive. She watched me swab down my desk and phone daily with Clorox and Lysol, when we worked together, and also, hand sanitizer is my best friend. I don’t even like touching the stair rails when going to and from my room, unless I have gloves on. And don’t get me started on other people using my phone at work. So, I use a LOT of laundry detergent when I wash my clothes here, and EXTREMELY hot water, and then, try not to think about it.

I have a dilemma that perhaps y’all could help me out with. While I don’t have a room mate, I share a bathroom with one other person – and this arrangement works well for us. She showers at night, and I shower in the morning, so we never even have to compete for bathroom time. However, she is a smoker, and I think that unless her clothes are extremely saturated with cigarette fumes, she has started smoking in her room. There are two problems with this, one being it is AGAINST THE RULES, as we are very quickly becoming a smoke-free Air Force, which includes very specifically, no smoking in the dorms, but two, the smoke gets under the door and sort of…stagnates… in the bathroom. When I go in there, I feel my lungs turning black and eight minutes of my life drifting away. It’s TRUE. The thing is, I’m not entirely positive that she is smoking in her room, and because of this uncertainty, I don’t want to upset the boat and call her out. You see, I’m not MAD that she smokes; it’s just…look, if you smokers choose to commit hari-kari by inhalation, more power to you, really, but, I don’t care to smell the smoke while you are doing it. So here’s where you come in: Do you think I should say something to her? Perhaps leave a friendly note in the bathroom? Maybe send an email to her at work? Or, should I just keep my mouth shut? Help me out, people, I’m totally depending on your insight on this one!

Dorm life, you guys…just be glad you live in a house, for realz.

CIAO!