observations on living in hall:


you try to go into the kitchen to get a late night snack in your nightie and dressing gown and you risk the disapproval of the hall guardians who shake rule-books at you. but only pull on a pair of jeans under it and head for the kitchen and suddenly everybody says oh we like your top!

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the rule book says that no one may leave the bathroom clad in only a towel. robes are required of women and shirts of men. the rule ought to say either that you must leave the bathroom fully dressed, or that the towel will serve. it doesn't, which accounts for all the men going past wearing the required buttoned-down shirt together with a towel beneath. which is absurd, for it leaves one with the same impression of insufficiency of dress with none of picturesqueness of the other.

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there has been a bit of ruckus in the kitchens of late. angry notes have been left out demanding the return of dishes nicked, and the washing of returned nicked dishes, leading to the RA putting out a new sign "use only your own dishes please!" this is impossible, given the current state of missing things. for instance, i have one chopstick left in the drying rack. what am i to do but use someone else's? i haven't seen the other chopstick for days, and no one has owned to having it, though what they would be doing with just one chopstick i haven't the faintest glimmer. spearing enemies, perhaps. what we really need is to declare dish amnesty night. bring back all dishes between midnight and 6am, no questions asked.

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and why is it, after all the upheaval of carpets and wires over the break, do we still not have wireless access in our rooms?