Day 259: The Flood of La Regencia

 

September 16th, 2011Disaster struck today in the form of a minature flood inside my very own apartment. But enough on that later. As the summer begins to come to an end with the start of classes next week comes the final hours of my summer days at EHS. I subsequently washed some carts at work today before proceeding to Price Center to relax for a bit. While there, I receive an urgent phone call from Tyler telling me the apartment has been slightly flooded due to a water pipe breaking on the floor above it. I shrug it off though, until I would actually witness the aftermath of the disaster when I got home later that day. [That wouldn’t be for quite a while though.]

Randomly Brittney sat next to me in Price Center and I was shocked to see her. We talked for a bit before crashing John Torres’ 15 minute work break. We subsequently gossiped for a decent amount of time before Torres left. Brittney and I caught up for a few more minutes before we seperated – I got Panda Express and got prepared for my medical appointment. I THINK I HAVE AN INTENSE FEVER. Anyway, at Student Heath I run into Leah, and so it appears that a minature floor family reunion happened today. Afterwards I went to Bank of America where they rudely made me wait 45 minutes for an appointment. Good thing I was there to close my account forever. SCREW EVIL BANKS. CHASE IS SOON TO BE NEXT >:)! I went to Geetha’s place for a bit where I finally realized I had an intense fever. She tried to drug me up, but it seemed to have no effect on my intensely aching headache. I helped her with some building meeting stuff before we met up with Rashika at the bus stop. The destination: BJ’s, where we all ordered and consumed some relatively delicious pasta. Our next trip was to AMC La Jolla for the sole purpose of watching Contagion. It was pretty scary watching a bunch of people get sick when you’re actually sick yourself. COULD IT BE, THAT I HAVE A VIRUS THAT CAN AFFECT EVERYONE I COME INTO CONTACT WITH!? DUN DUN DUN. Afterwards, I bused home where Tyler gave me some status updates….

Apparently, a pipe burst in the apartment above mine, causing the entire apartment to flood, and screwing essentially all the residents there. We were also screwed in the process because water leaked out of the air vent into our apartment, flooding half of my room (Tyler’s side), the laundry room, and half of the living room. When I got home the problem appeared to be fixed, although there were a ton of loud and noisy air dryers playing in the background (one of them pictured above), and all of Tyler’s stuff pushed to my side of the room in an effort to avoid from being wet. GREAT. A Fever & a super noisy apartment makes for a terrible night of sleeping.

On this day in 1932, in his cell at Yerovda Jail near Bombay, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest of the British government’s decision to separate India’s electoral system by caste. A leader in the Indian campaign for home rule, Gandhi worked all his life to spread his own brand of passive resistance across India and the world. By 1920, his concept of Satyagraha (or “insistence upon truth”) had made Gandhi an enormously influential figure for millions of followers. Jailed by the British government from 1922-24, he withdrew from political action for a time during the 1920s but in 1930 returned with a new civil disobedience campaign. This landed Gandhi in prison again, but only briefly, as the British made concessions to his demands and invited him to represent the Indian National Congress Party at a round-table conference in London. YEEEEE.

Fervent young followers wear his “revolution” T-shirts and chant his name as he steps to the podium of New England College: “Ron Paul, Ron Paul.” But the libertarian-leaning Texas lawmaker running a third campaign for the White House is having difficulty attracting mainstream Republicans to his candidacy in a fractured primary battle. Paul, 76, remains undaunted by that task and says his campaign is catching on with those suffering in a crumbling economy and an ongoing war. “People are waking up,” Paul said in an interview following a speech here. “This economy is in shambles and they are tired of being in a war that has lasted 10 years. They know printing money doesn’t make you rich and they are coming around to the issues I have been talking about for years.” HE MUST WIN.

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