Let's go, Tar Heels!

Right now the fans at the soccer game are chanting behind Carmichael dorm. They are also playing a bad soundtrack of Chamillionaire and other hi-klass modern Top 40 artists. It's keeping me from concentrating on my history paper, but that's just one of the many amenities of living here!

The others include

- built-in greenhouses! Just live on the front side of the building, and even with your air on full blast and your fans going, walk in and be pushed back by a wave of stifling heat! The wall-length windows and the nice afternoon sun will ensure that your Coke is always warm, your ceiling tiles grow mold and your room smells really bad!

- built-in freezers! If you happen to live on the back side of the building, you don't get a whole lot of sun. Instead, your A/C kicks in and makes your socks ice over. Opening the windows results in rain blowing in, which gives you a nice, smooth skating surface between the beds.

- muscular boys! That's right; a large portion of Carmichael residents are athletes! They are big, buff and spectacularly dumb! Just ask the 500+ residents who were evacuated at 2 a.m. when the drunken baseball players let a hot dog burn on the stove. On the stove. No pan. Fire alarm. Two fuckin a.m.

- modern elevators! Half the time, one or the other is broken; the other half the time, you get stuck riding up to every floor (yes, that includes the second and third floors) with those athletes we just mentioned, freshly sweaty and odorous from practice. If you're lucky, you're in the elevator whose "door open" and "door close" buttons work, so that you can make as swift an escape as possible.

- alarm clocks! Be it football, soccer or drinking season, you can always count on having someone around to wake you up at 3 a.m., 12 noon or 5 in the evening! Rowdy fights on the sidewalk, break dancers in the ballroom, tailgaters on Stadium Drive and relays in the pool are all effective ways of awakening to a happy and healthy morning. And don't forget that 5 a.m. leaf blower -- sure to get everyone going!

- allergies! Remember that mold on the ceiling tiles? Well it's also in the bathrooms, the air conditioning vents and the baseboards! Yes, it is within the very wells that house you! And there's nothing you can do about it. Take your Allegra, kiddies, or move out, because Mama Mold is here to stay! So what if you lose two or three suitemates a semester? Don't I make a much more exciting friend anyways?


So that was just my housing rant. Pay no mind to it; I think I'm getting crankier about all the problems because all my residents are cranky about them...And when they complain to me, and I have to deal with it...sigh. I like C-Mike, I do. But knowing more about the way the building is run and serviced and maintenanced makes me a bit more jaded.

Anyways, despite the footie commotion, I do have a paper to write before I go play "Je n'ai jamais..." (Never Have I Ever) with the rest of the frogs. Maybe I'll have something terrifyingly gross to say about our ever-favorite MS. Ewww.

xxxAnnie