h2o

I drink a lot of bottled water, and I have this wasteful tendency to open new bottles of water before finishing off previously-dranken-ones. I seem to open a new bottle every time I become thirsty, and once that thirst is quenched (usually only requiring 2-3 gulps), I sort of unconsciously assume that the remaining water in the bottle is no longer good. I think I also still have that fear of drinking my own backwash, a mostly-false theory perpetuated during high school when people often took huge swigs out of each others sodas because they were too cheap or poor to buy their own. In reality I'm pretty sure the majority of the liquid remaining in the bottle is not backwash, unless you're a slob.

The result: a bunch of opened bottles containing perfectly drinkable water strewn about my floor that I eventually gather up and throw out. Maybe I should switch to those 2-gallon dispensers so I only drink as much as I need at the moment.

Definitely one of the most irritating things about being in a house with 5 people are the varying thresholds of heat that each person can handle. Since my feet are like ice right now, it seems like the solution we've settled on is to just keep the heat off. I'm not sure what's worse - the fact that I'm freezing or that I'm too lazy to walk 3ft to put on a sweater and a pair of socks. I'm reminded of those (frequent) nights where I know I should be going to sleep to avoid fatigue the next day, yet I stay up, accomplish nothing, and pay the piper the next day. I guess it wouldn't be home without a little bit of self-induced torture.