Two Things

Last night around 10pm, a student at UVa was robbed and assaulted on the breezeway between Bryan Hall and Cabell. It just occurred to me that I was walking that very same breezeway less than two hours before the robbery occurred. It's weird, thinking that timing could mean so much. I've walked alone to the Lawn on multiple occasions; I never feel uncomfortable or threatened. Hell, every Monday night I walk back at 8pm from band. True, I'm usually accompanied by one or two friends but not every night. Sometimes I wonder if I ought to curtail my roamings. There have been nights where I can't sleep, and so I walk around UVa at 2am. It's very peaceful, and I love star and cloud gazing in the gentle coolness of the night. I just want to be able to do that for a long time....

On a lighter note, at UVa laundry is allegedly $3.00: $1.50 to wash, $1.50 to dry. While this price is already heavily overdone, the situation gets worse. I can almost guarantee that your clothes will not be dry the first time and have a chance of needing a third round. Well since late October, I haven't found a dryer that works right the first time, and because I have such a generally pleasant and good life anyway and thus have few things to bitch about (yet still need to bitch), I need to capitalize on every chance I get, and laundry costing $4.50 per load is more than fair game. Today, I loaded the dryer like usual and left my hamper--it's easier to do that than drag it back and forth, and just about everyone does it. When I came back after Round 1, I was amazed: the clothes were dry on the first go around! Excited, I told my friend who was doing laundry at the same time (yay for laundry parties), and then I went for my hamper. Hmmm.... Apparently someone thought my $1.50 hamper was a must-have and kindly borrowed it. Permanently, I have to assume. So even when laundry doesn't cost $4.50, it still finds a way to cost $4.50.

Eh, I'd rather have poor luck with the hamper than the walk.