XXIII

I can control my destiny. I trust my soul. My only goal is to be.

Yes — I am on a RENT binge.

Can’t sleep alone tonight, I’ve gotten used to your presence…

So I’ll watch It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia till I pass out!

Just because…

I hope someone picks this up from @nyunews or @nyulocal…

So today, just like any other day, I turned off my heater by the main power switch in my room at University Hall.  I have to turn off the heat through the main power switch for two reasons:

1. It’s a fucking sauna within 3 minutes if you keep it on
2. Even if the temperature is turned to “C” (for COLD) level, it still blasts the flames of hell

So, when I did this today, as I’ve done before, the maintenance crew came upstairs ringing my doorbell like a child’s push-toy “BING!BING!BING!BING!BING!” Of course this occurred while I was napping, so I stumbled out of my room and answered them in my underwear, which once you read further into this post you will realize this is the most respect they deserve.  Once I opened my door, they barged in like I had just brewed meth in my hallway-sized-kitchen and immediately took to the central air unit.  They said to me “WHO TURNED OFF THIS UNIT?!” To which I so eloquently replied, “Uhhhh… me.”  They then proceeded to tell me that “Anytime someone turns off the main power switch, we are notified and must come to see you, because it cannot be turned off.”  So I said to them, as pleasantly as possible, “Well, because we clearly have no control over the temperature of the air that is emitted from the vents, our only option to deter the roommates of this room from dying of a heat stroke is to shut down the system completely.”  Did they offer any solution to the lack-of-temperature-control problem after explaining this? Of course not.

Now, what’s absolutely PERPLEXING is the fact that this is all transpiring during NYUnplugged.  What’s NYUnpluuged, you ask?  Well, it’s a competition between NYU Residence Halls to see who can be the most environmentally-friendly within an almost-twenty-day period.  The majority of the competition is left up to the individual student to take green moves of his/her own, but some initiatives are taken on the building as a whole.  For example, UHall disabled one of its three elevators.  UHall has 19 floors, with I’d predict 40 people per floor.  In other words, we really need three elevators if I want to leave for a class/job commitment at a reasonable time, rather than an hour in advance just to wait for the fucking elevator.  In fact, just a few days ago, when I waited for six minutes, yes I counted, for the elevator to go downstairs (I live on the 12th floor… it’s necessary) I realized my water bottle was empty.  Upon this realization, I thought of the bright idea to go to the water fountains by the bathrooms in the main lobby for a refill.  So I pressed the button to start the fountain and, to my disappointment, no water flew out of the spout… which brings me to my final point…

NYU, your students are paying an incredible amount for simple amenities like climate control and water supply… who are you to tell us when we can use these and how?  I don’t get fed-up with you easily, NYU, but this is a definite disappointment.