The luxury of hot water

Let me start by saying I have not had a hot shower in a week. I have had 2 "warm" showers that lasted 3 minutes. The rest have been luke warm or flat out cold. Now this is fine if you go for a 3 mile run before all showers.

However, if you don't it gets annoying real quick.

Some how I went from having a gas hot water heater that can take your skin off and a whirlpool tube to cold showers with no tub at all.

For a marathon bather like me this is unacceptable.

Now for the real problem, I'm not paying rent here, so I can't really complain about a little lack of ,oh, hot water.

This folks is why I do not like accepting anything free. There is always a catch and you can get screwed so easily. If I had been left alone to get an apartment in North Chattanooga, I would have hot water. That is the last time I get guilt tripped into saving money.

If I didn't I could b%&^$ about it and demand it be fixed. But no I had to give in and agree to save money, yet all those people who told me I would be wasting money on an apartment have hot water.

One in particular even has my whirlpool.

If the house had gas service, I would be tempted to just buy a new hot water heater and take it with me when I move. But alas the gas is not hooked up.

This is not the proper way to study for the bar exam.

Everyone reading this go take a hot shower right now, for me, and think about teh luxury of hot water.

Barbri

This video taped lecture stuff is most unpleasant. I'm already finding myself wanting to duck out at 8 p.m. rather than wait to finish at 9 p.m.

Yes, I get to go from 5 to 9 at night. The always coveted night Barbri class.

Let me tell you, this is going to get annoying real quick. I get to sit in a heavily airconditioned (roughly 50 degrees) room for 4 hours a night with video tape cracking silly jokes at me.

Two things occer to me at that point:

1. Why would I have come 900 miles to avoid 50 degree summers only to sit in a 50 degree room? It's summer people, it's suppose to be hot.

2. How many bad puns can I take before I become violent toward the VCR? Where is this guy and how can I stop him from taping again?

The good news is there is someone I know(and actually like)in the classes with me. It's always a relief not to be the lone friendless person in a group of strange southerners. They attack easily:)

I can also already feel myself finding lots of other things to do besides my practice questions. This will become more of a problem once work starts.

But for right now my Pom Pom is keeping me on task because she doesn't want me to leave the house. She feels threatened by the lack of parental or cat supervision I think.

Hewr older sister is doing fine now. She's busy rolling around in the yard and getting to sleep on the bed. She makes a good cuddler.

Well, back to the practice questions.

New apartment

Well,

Here I am in my "new rental" house having the first beer, I'm out of whiskey. Okay well the second beer, but its the first "beer" night. Actually it is the first night period.

I guess the house is not so bad. I have the bedroom and the kitchen outfitted, and now they don't lookso bad. I just really hate faux wood paneling. I can't imagine what makes someone want to suck all the light out of a house by covering the walls with dark, wood colored veneer.

Oh well, no accounting for personal taste.

I have your basic police search lights in the back to light up the parking area. Otherwise I would so not be parking there.

Can we say rape?

Its a very dark area with woods immediately in front. I have no intention of being dragged back there by some hairy redneck for a "good time".

I'd rather take my chances with street parking "THE BUG".

Plus I now have my always loved .38 back. I missed my gun, all women should be well armed. And if I might steal a line from one of my favorite books, "Everyone down here is well armed and drunk."

There is no better feeling of security than to know that if someone with less than pure intentions comes in your house in the middle of the night ( and I have the nifty Hera alarms system to let me know), you can stop them in their tracks (literally, they fall backwards).

But as always the police frown on that, not so much down here as in the north, but still its not looked on favorably.

Anyway, reality calls.

Later.

New jobs, new apartments and Tennessee

Just a brief update.

Well, I have arrived in one piece with puppies and various suits. I have seen the rental house. Once again I find myself asking why I trust random people to be accurate in their descriptions of property. But hey it's not with my parents, and there are no terrier sized cockroaches, right?

Now on to real issues: New jobs are very stressful. I find myself dreading the Bar prep and "adjustment" period of the new job. I am way out of my comfort level here. As are all us recent graduates from that lovely adventure called law school.

I love my fellow southerners we're such an entertaining bunch of characters. I knew was back in Tennessee when I woke up from the passenger seat at a gas station to look over and see a guy with a shirt that, shall we say was far from covering his formidable stomach, and using the word "ya'll".

My accent is already returning, and only one person has given me the narrowed eye "look" while asking "where are you from exactly?" Then there is the follow up of "Well, you're back here now. That's what matters." As though there is something wrong with wanting to get away from the place your born in. Why would anyone want to see any other part of the world? Just doesn't phase them there's a wide world full of interesting places. Mostly annoying people, but interesting places none the less.

Okay, here I am.

I keep being dragged kicking and screaming into the technology generation. Hope your happy you two. You know who you are.

I shall endevor to post my harrowing adventures from the south, but names adn details will be changed to protect the innocent.