Water, Water, Everywhere

Subtitle: This one's for you John

Alright, it's Tuesday evening and a rather rainy and stormy one at that. So what better to do than write a new blog entry.

This Thursday is All Saints Day which means a day off from school for us, and a mass exodus from Rome for all the locals. I plan to go farther than they are, so Sicily it is. Actually, the trip was planned about a month ago and I'm going through the school. Four days on the island seeing the major cities, climbing the highest active volcano in Europe, and sleeping in hotels rather than hostels. A much better alternative to the trip up to the Swiss Alps for skiing, where I surely would have broken a bone (or bones) attempting to ski for only the third time in my life.

So I'll just post a quick update before I disappear for a few days. But have no fear, Monday I will be back with plenty of stories. The most recent of which will be watching my Colts annihilate that one team that claimes they're good but actually have to cheat to beat reasonable opponents (the Patriots). Don't get me riled up on the issue, it does nobody any good. I'll just say, I personally think they owe a ring or two back.

Anyway, we're in the marshy ground found between midterms and finals. That means the projects are coming up in each class. Well, I only have two, but still, they're in my hardest classes so that has to count for something. We're done with the advertising campaign that has to be presented Tuesday, with the second half to come three weeks later. There's one more week to the marketing game, and then after that is our inidividual marketing plans which rumor has are about as fun as a root canal, or in my case, a gall bladder removal. Awesome.

So, the current news, and the title of my entry brings me to the apartment's particular problem. The showerhead. Allow me to explain. The shower is one of those rectangular boxes that has two panels that slide together to close it off, sealing the water inside. The shower head is one of those on a hose that you can take of the mount on the wall. The problem arose halfway through last week, when the seal around the shower head started leaking on the left side. That meant that the majority of water was coming through the shower head like normal, but there was a heavy spray shooting directly left from the showerhead. If the showerhead wasn't angled quite right the rogue water would hit the wall and spray up over the shower. No good for our clothes, towels, or mold problem. So, as a solution we angled the showerhead down and in so the water spray stayed in the shower stall. Problem solved. Until...Monday. I jumped in the shower after my run and turned on the water. Only a trickle was coming through the mainshower head. But instead of the one spray going left, there was another one of greater pressure shooting directly opposite. It has the similar effects of placing your thumb over a running hose and causing the water to release with much more intensity and distance. Unfortunately, this distance equalled the walls of the bathroom. It was a shortlived shower and I decided a maintenance request was in order. This evening I came home and noticed the bathroom light still on. I looked inside and noticed the walls were wet. That's when I saw a note on the table in the main room written on a napkin that read, "I bring a new showerhead for you tomorrow afternoon. See you, Marco". Apparently Marco turned on the shower and found our sprinkler system did not, in fact, provide any water in a location that was feasable to take a shower. In the meantime, it provides something humorous that you can really only say "when in Rome" to.