One Faucet vs. Two Faucets

The epic dilemma I've faced while down under, is two faucets vs. just one. One makes perfect sense, right? Nothing really wrong with it after all. Don't take it for granted!

Down under, at the hostel where I live, they have two faucets for the sinks. One for hot and one for cold. There is no perfect middle-ground which is a haven for my hands back at home. The hot faucet shoots out liquid hot magma within 3 seconds. The cold faucet ejects dry ice in liquid form within 3 seconds. There is no in between for my hands to enjoy. Skin melted off or no feeling and purple hands? I choose purple every time. Brushing my teeth is easy, cold. Washing my hands is hard, and I haven't come up with a good system yet. Right now it's "wash your hands as fast as possible" and I know that's not good. Washing my face means wetting my face with cold water, lathering, and rinsing with hot water; hopefully before my fingers are fried.

Don't take your single faucet sinks for granted if you have them. If you have double faucets, I wonder if they are extreme or not.

In case you didn't notice the picture above (I don't know how you wouldn't), it's their plug in outlet. Funky, eh?

Today I woke up, got driven to class by a girl also in my class, had class, got driven to an "Office Max-type store" and bought a USB thumb stick (left my 1GB at home) that was 4GB for $40. Spiffy! After that, she drove us home. I sat around for the rest of the day (olympics, parts of movies, a British tv show) and I am just starting to feel ashamed about it now. I did read a lot and I'm so close to finishing the Narnia series! I will finish it tomorrow easily on the shuttle to UTS. We had curry again for supper.

I found some more podcasts to watch/listen to. One is the best of youtube and the other is a "How This Works" audio podcast, so I will learn. I also bought Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog for $5 on iTunes. It's good, a byproduct of the Writer's Strike.

I miss video games and $5 movies on weeknights.

Other slang here:
car park = parking lot
mad = crazy (they don't use it for angry ever, just crazy)
how are you going? = how are you doing? (they also use "how are you doing?")