Shower-related Goodness!
Sep. 11th, 2015 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI snagged a seventy-dollar showerhead (An Oxygenics Vortex) at a Goodwill in Kenosha for $2.99.
I hadn't managed to get to a hardware store to buy thread tape to install it, but I dropped by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
restoman's place on the way home and he gave me some extra he had around. Now that it's installed, it looks like it works just fine on all settings.
The shower head that came with the place had one setting: painfully intense. This thing's got eight. I'm really looking forward to my next shower! Now I just need to get a diverter and hand-held want to add to it for complete luxury.
There was a picnic for Maxwell school grad students today. Most of the geography people (maybe all of them) were at the Beer Belly Deli on Westcott Street for a get together after the colloquium talk I went to. I wanted to get home and get some more reading done, plus I'm feeling a little intimidated about being social these last couple days. Instead, I figured I'd stop by the picnic for dinner and head home to read.
Instead, I chatted with a sixth-year sociology Ph.D. student over burgers. She talked about her research and about the talk I'd just seen. Then we chatted about the fate of I-81, one of the elevated highways through Syracuse that will be reaching end of useful life in 2017. I do so much better when it's just me and a couple of people. I wish it was easier to maneuver myself into positive social situations with the other geography folks. Maybe it will just take time.
I had a chance encounter with one of the faculty who I've had a to-do on my list to talk to about thesis topics. She said I should send her an email, which I'll do. I think I'll feel better about my position here if I get to know at least the faculty a bit better. That's kind of how it was at Parkside for me. It was really hard for me to get to know fellow students; faculty were much easier because of their consistent location and context of appearance.
I hadn't managed to get to a hardware store to buy thread tape to install it, but I dropped by
restoman's place on the way home and he gave me some extra he had around. Now that it's installed, it looks like it works just fine on all settings.The shower head that came with the place had one setting: painfully intense. This thing's got eight. I'm really looking forward to my next shower! Now I just need to get a diverter and hand-held want to add to it for complete luxury.
There was a picnic for Maxwell school grad students today. Most of the geography people (maybe all of them) were at the Beer Belly Deli on Westcott Street for a get together after the colloquium talk I went to. I wanted to get home and get some more reading done, plus I'm feeling a little intimidated about being social these last couple days. Instead, I figured I'd stop by the picnic for dinner and head home to read.
Instead, I chatted with a sixth-year sociology Ph.D. student over burgers. She talked about her research and about the talk I'd just seen. Then we chatted about the fate of I-81, one of the elevated highways through Syracuse that will be reaching end of useful life in 2017. I do so much better when it's just me and a couple of people. I wish it was easier to maneuver myself into positive social situations with the other geography folks. Maybe it will just take time.
I had a chance encounter with one of the faculty who I've had a to-do on my list to talk to about thesis topics. She said I should send her an email, which I'll do. I think I'll feel better about my position here if I get to know at least the faculty a bit better. That's kind of how it was at Parkside for me. It was really hard for me to get to know fellow students; faculty were much easier because of their consistent location and context of appearance.
