what i want are glass shelves in the shower so that there is a place to put the toiletries. harvard real estate services didn't seem to have considered this when they renovated garden street, and there are no ledges, shelves, or even wall mounted basket. i really don't want to still be using a shower caddy when i'm no longer living in a dormitory. the only thing is, anything that goes on a wall - curtain rods and wall lamps and shelves, they all seem to require screwing and drilling, don't they? it isn't just that i am sure to botch the job. for that, von is around to supervise - i'm getting him to teach me to do all the handy things around the house before he leaves - and to put a basic toolkit together for me so that i can be a diy woman. he says my current incompetence and reliance on male know-how is institutionalised stereotyping and i should jolly well learn how to do everything and stop wishing for brothers. the problem is that i don't know that hres will let me make holes in walls. i want someone to come and take a look at these shelves and tell me nonsense they can be mounted by doing this, and this, and voila, no holes, no drills, happy showering. but that can't be right, can it? also, i just thought of this. if i get the bookshelves of my desire they will be 7 feet high. does that mean i'll need to reinforce them by, well however people do that, i know our bookshelves at home have got something screwed on to attach it to the wall so that it doesn't topple over. oh this is dreadful. i do need men around. not necessarily to do things for me, but to teach me what to do and how to do it and explain why it is done that way so i can do it myself and in future ju yi fan san in other matters. i wish i took physics instead of geograpny in high school. geography is all very well but a cold front or an ox-bow lake is really rather outside of my experience. and i don't know why i had to take home economics - i loathe cooking and sewing. if i had a choice i'd do tech like the boys and then i won't be in this idiotic position of not knowing household physics.