A Full Day of Sub-Freezing Temps

Wow. Just wow. For Louisiana, this is COLD! I can't remember a day when it was below 32 all day long. There are ice patches all over campus. When I walked to class this morning for my 8am, it was 18 degrees, 10 mph wind, felt like 6 degrees. Let me see if I can explain this... I DON'T DO COLD. I am not a cold-weather creature, by any stretch of the imagination. I have been wearing full-body underarmour as a base layer of my warmth. But the wind is unbearable. Southern cold is different from northern cold, and I've been in both more than once. Northern cold is dry. Southern cold has humidity that sticks to you and "chills you to the bone" (as I heard from a Northern lady visiting). Today, the humidity ranges from 60+% to about 30% throughout the day. That's enough water in the air to make anyone very very cold, without wind. Then add in the 10-12mph winds... ugh... needless to say, I didn't want to leave my covers this morning.

On a different note, it was roughly 2 days until I heard my upstairs neighbors use water again. And since my bathroom is not a rainforest anymore, I'm assuming it has been fixed. Yay!

Oh!! Last night was the College Football National Championship game! I cooked dinner for the boyfriend and his best friend (came out HORRIBLE. The recipe was just awful; not my fault. Never cook 3-cheese pasta bake from Campbells recipe book EVER. Smells good, but don't be fooled.) as we cheered on Bama (Sorry Anjea!! Nothing against Texas, but I like Bama more) as they won the National Championship! Roll Tide! It was a fun game to watch.

After I finish this post, I'm going to wash all the dishes from last night (and the tray we cooked the pizza on afterwards), load up Dora, and head home! Celebrating boyfriend's best friend's birthday tomorrow.

So I've been unable to run all week. For the first few days, I had a random hip-flexer injury where I couldn't even walk well. Once that healed, I now have very sore quads from my kines 292 class where we've been doing muscle strength trainings and workouts. So I still can't walk well. *sigh* Maybe Monday will be better.

-Annie

A New Precipitation

The snow has come and gone (but it supposed to return on Thursday!), but that hasn't stopped the water from falling!... through our ceiling. Something happened and between the time my roommate left the apartment and I came back, our bathroom was FLOODED. It came from our neighbor's bathroom above us. We're not really sure what happened, but water came pouring out of the ceiling on the back wall, into the bathtub with enough force to soak the edge of the mat closest to the bathroom door (and everything in between). I even found water droplets on the door frame. I called housing and they came pretty quickly. They went upstairs to "have an eyeball" at it. I heard really loud metallic noises from inside the ceiling, water running, loud banging, and then silence. Nothing since, either. I never heard back from the guy, but I haven't heard the people above us use any water either (which we normally hear... loudly). So I still don't know if it's fixed, and that was a few hours ago.

I just really don't want to be in the shower tomorrow morning and get showered on with a different, unwanted water source too. Hopefully it's fixed and that will be the end of it.

Here are two pictures. Our bathroom after I've hung up the mats to dry and put towels down to soak it all up and another one of where the water came through.

-Annie