Roommate Didn't Get Kicked Out

Well, my roommate didn't get kicked out.  The pylon was gone today.  I asked him about it, and he said that you get pyloned if you forget something.  I forget what it was that you have to forget to get put with the pylon.  I guess front desk was just screwing with me when they said he got kicked out...?

I did my laundry today.  Went okay.  Now I just have to take out my garbage and I'll have done everything  necessary for survival under these conditions.

I can't get my phone to make calls outside of Kitchener.  I tried to make a collect call, and it said that the household doesn't accept collect calls, which I know is wrong.  I tried using a calling card, but it kept saying the phone number was invalid.  I wound up using a pay phone, and my card worked fine.  Silly Residence phone.

It's always raining around here.  In Guelph, we usually have droughts during the summer.  Guelph used to be a lake, and I always found that fact ominous.  I mean, what caused the lake to dry up, and has it stopped?  At any rate, there's no such curse going on in Kitchener, and it can get annoying when your only transportation is walking.

I need to figure out the bus route.  Nowhere in the area sells maps with the bus route, and when I looked it up online, my computer refused to load it.  Apparently they sell them in the book store at the college, but if the line is as insane this week as last week, even if I had enough time to wait two hours in line, I'd feel bad for wasting everyone's time who was waiting to get their textbooks.

Nobody around here can pronounce my name.  They always say "Grai-fun".  Wasn't a problem in Guelph, because the University of Guelph's team is the "Guelph Gryphons".

I'm learning a lot of philosophical type stuff.  Stuff like "There's no use in buying canned food if you don't have a can opener" and "There's no use in buying milk if you don't have milk jug".

That wouldn't make sense to any non-Canadians reading this.  In Canada, we have our milk in bags.  Getting it in cartons is twice as expensive, but apparently that's all you guys have.

I got a can opener.  I've been collecting all these little things that I didn't think of, like dish soap, sponges, coat hangers, a hand towel for the bathroom etc.  The only things left on my list are a stapler, a hole puncher, and a milk jug.

I felt bad yesterday, because I didn't manage to do a shopping trip that would last me a full week.  I was so into only doing my shopping on Tuesdays, when I would get a 10% discount.  I thought I might use what little food I had left to scrape me by, buffing it out by eating at Tim Hortons until Tuesday, but then I realized that that's more expensive than just shopping without the discount.  So I did a little shopping trip to tide me over until Tuesday.  If I bought to much, I'm gonna feel bad.