roommates

The air in Oklahoma really is a whole lot cleaner. Flying in to Salt Lake, it was startling to see how bad the smoke and smog was. Made me grateful for all of those Oklahoma windstorms.

With the new semester looming on the horizon, my roommates and I have been giving our apartment a thorough cleaning. While our apartment was fairly clean to begin with, there was still a whole lot of junk left over from previous tenants. Once (if) it’s completely clean, we’ll be able to a bit of interior decorating and make the place at least somewhat presentable.

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So, being the studious person I am, I woke up this morning and started preparing for my CS 330 final. We’re allowed to use our book and notes, so I was condensing all of my lecture notes when the power suddenly went out. “Great,” I thought, “some idiot driver probably just sideswiped a utility pole. I guess I’ll have to wait a few minutes to print these out.” I went upstairs to see if maybe one of the circuit breakers had blown — as I did so, I could hear one of my other roommates coming down from the second floor — he clearly had the same idea. After checking the breakers and verifying that they were set, my roommate headed next door to see if the neighboring apartment was also without power. It was then that we found out why the power had gone out.

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