“You know, if “house checks” are anything like “suite checks”; the bar for success is pretty low.” - Binks

Our house received a “Not Approved” grading and they are returning to evaluate us again on February 8, 2008.

Hopefully, the quote from Binks and the fact that we failed our inspection puts in perspective the terrible state of our house.

Oh, and for the record, the kitchen received no bad comments whatsoever. Hmm…and who happened to be behind that initiative?

Anyway, the bathroom was rated very poorly (which is an understatement, these people are absolute slobs). So, Subject A took it upon himself to rush out to the store and purchase some cleaning supplies to clean up the bathroom. I don’t know how he cleaned it. The only new supplies in the bathroom was a sponge and cleaning gloves (supplies that I have had in the house since day one). Otherwise, he made use of my SoftScrub cleaner (again, Day One), and did a reasonable job of making the counter and toilet “look” clean. I would argue that they are not clean…but the fact that he was able to create the illusion of cleanliness exceeded my expectations.

ASIDE: Subject B came by my room eating some of his leftover Hamburger Helper. He then dripped some of it on himself. Try to gain perspective on the issue.

So, the bathroom needs to be recleaned. I’ll probably end up scrubbing the shower today at some point. I also have my Calculus assignment to do. I know where my priorities lie.

Also, this morning, I found some dishes in the dishdrainer that still had food on them. I’m going to address the three of them and say, “Listen, either learn to wash dishes properly, or I send the dishdrainer back to Stratford and you can dry your dishes by hand.”

Hopefully, it will get these 20-somethings to start behaving like fucking adults instead of like teenaged male slobs. I mean, please, at this age we are supposed to be looking for potential mates, and no woman is going to want to marry a man who is an utter slob. As if a woman would be willing to sign herself up for 60+ years with the guy who doesn’t clean.

I’m so frustrated by these people. Sometimes, I think it would be easiest to lock Subject A, B, and C in a room with a kettle and a truckload of heatable noodles and a bucket and leave them to fend for themselves.

Well, I wrote Sociology today, seemingly without issue.

Tomorrow, it will be a two-fisted exam exposion! WHOA!!!

Number Theory at 1:30 and Probability at 3:30.

Can you say overwhelmed and bitter? I know I can.

What is worse is that Wednesday is the day of our house inspection, and although I jeopardized my SOC mark by cleaning the kitchen, I refuse to do that for Probability or Number Theory.

Sorry bathroom. You will have to wait.

Today, I cleaned our kitchen.

It looks immaculate. I just felt that I had to share that with someone.

Currently, the kitchen in my house is a gigantic explosion of two-day old chili and one-day old spaghetti sauce. The walls, countertops, and stove are splattered with red chunky liquid, and there are dirty dishes on every conceivable surface. I had to practically juggle in order to make my scrambled eggs this morning. Oh, and when I went to take my dishes out of the dish drainer, some sort of thin white insect was crawling around in there. I wouldn’t be surprised if all of the old exposed food had drawn it out.

Oh, and did I mention there is three day old rice sitting in a rice cooker on the counter. Yeah. The place is tip-top.

I hate sharing a kitchen with people. I have never seen such disrespect. This is a kitchen that is shared amongst four people, and these two people do not seem to care.

I’m going to wait for the fourth member of our house to get back from Bradford, and then I’m going to have to talk to all of them about some basic sanitary rules for a household.

My damn phone line is broken. This really sucks…

I don’t know what it is. I was getting calls all last week from a different phone number, and now my phone doesn’t work at all. Apparently, my mother was worried because she couldn’t get through.

Does anyone know of a blogroll plug-in that allows me to sort the order in which they appear? I mean, I do not want the “Red Card Group” links to be so low on the sidebar. And it doesn’t seem sensible to have my comics links (which aren’t even affiliated with me in any way) listed above my fellow cardcarriers.

I’m still thinking of a blog header image. I mean…I’ve been trying to work on something using Maya, but it turns out that it is a more complicated tool than I would have expected (considered I am dealing with a stylized cube).

Anyway, if anyone knows of a plug-in, let me know.